Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian - Softcover

 
9780803273610: Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803273614 ISBN 13: 9780803273610
Verlag: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Native Americans and the Environment brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars whose works continue and complicate the conversations that Shepard Krech started in The Ecological Indian. Hailed as a masterful synthesis and yet assailed as a problematic political tract, Shepard Krech&;s work prompted significant discussions in scholarly communities and among Native Americans.
 
Rather than provide an explicit assessment of Krech&;s thesis, the contributors to this volume explore related historical and contemporary themes and subjects involving Native Americans and the environment, reflecting their own research and experience. At the same time, they also assess the larger issue of representation. The essays examine topics as divergent as Pleistocene extinctions and the problem of storing nuclear waste on modern reservations. They also address the image of the &;ecological Indian&; and its use in natural history displays alongside a consideration of the utility and consequences of employing such a powerful stereotype for political purposes. The nature and evolution of traditional ecological knowledge is examined, as is the divergence between belief and practice in Native resource management. Geographically, the focus extends from the eastern Subarctic to the Northwest Coast, from the Great Lakes to the Great Plains to the Great Basin.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael E. Harkin is a professor of anthropology at the University of Wyoming and the editor of Reassessing Revitalization Movements: Perspectives from North America and the Pacific Islands (Nebraska 2004) and the journal Ethnohistory. David Rich Lewis is a professor of history at Utah State University, the editor of Western Historical Quarterly, and the author of Neither Wolf nor Dog: American Indians, Environment and Agrarian Change.--Judith Antell is the director of the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Wyoming. Brian Hosmer is the director of the Newberry Library D&;Arcy McNickel Center for American Indian History. Shepard Krech III is a professor of anthropology and environmental studies and the director of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University.
 
Contributors: Judith Antell, Sebastian F. Braun, Ernest S. Burch Jr., John Dorst, Harvey A. Feit, Dan Flores, Michael E. Harkin, Brian Hosmer, Robert L. Kelly, Shepard Krech III, Stephen J. Langdon, David Rich Lewis, Larry Nesper, Mary M. Prasciunas, Darren J. Ranco, and James H. Schlender.

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Verlag
UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803273614
ISBN 13 
9780803273610
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
367
Herausgeber
Harkin Michael Eugene, Lewis David Rich
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