Native Americans and the Environment : Perspectives on the Ecological Indian / / edited and with an introduction by Michael E. Harkin and David Rich Lewis ; foreword by Judith Antell ; preface by Brian Hosmer ; afterword by Shepard Krech III

• Pubblicazione: Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2007; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2012; ©2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (404 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.2089/97
• Soggetto topico: Human-animal relationships - North America; Philosophy of nature - North America; Indian philosophy - North America; Ethnoecology - North America
• Altri autori: LewisDavid Rich HarkinMichael Eugene <1958->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Beyond The ecological Indian / Shepard Krech III -- The ecological Indian and the politics of representation : critiquing The ecological Indian in the age of ecocide / Darren J. Ranco -- Myths of the ecological whitemen : histories, science, and rights in North American-Native American relations / Harvey A. Feit -- Did the ancestors of Native Americans cause animal extinctions in late-pleistocene North America? And does it matter if they did? / Robert L. Kelly and Mary M. Prasciunas -- Rationality and resource use among hunters : some Eskimo examples / Ernest S. Burch Jr -- Wars over buffalo : stories versus stories on the northern Plains / Dan Flores -- Watch for falling bison : the buffalo hunt as museum trope and ecological allegory / John Dorst -- Ecological and un-ecological Indians : the (non)portrayal of Plains Indians in the buffalo commons literature / Sebastian F. Braun -- Swallowing wealth : Northwest Coast beliefs and ecological practices / Michael E. Harkin -- Sustaining a relationship : inquiry into the emergence of a logic of engagement with salmon among the southern Tlingits / Stephen J. Langdon -- The politics of cultural revitalization and intertribal resource management : the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission and the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota / Larry Nesper and James H. Schlender -- Skull Valley goshutes and the politics of nuclear waste : environment, identity, and sovereignty / David Rich Lewis.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Native Americans and the Environment
• ISBN: 1-280-73522-8; 9786610735228; 0-8032-0566-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911018679003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II