Keepers of the game : Indian-animal relationships and the fur trade / / Calvin Martin

• Autore: Martin Calvin
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1978
• Edizione: Reprint 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 226 p. ) : maps
• Disciplina: 971/.004/97
• Soggetto topico: Fur trade - Canada; Indians of North America - Canada - Hunting; Ecology - Canada
• Persona (resp. second.): LurieNancy Oestreich
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Maps -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Paradox -- PART ONE: An Ecological Interpretation of European Contact with the Micmac -- 1. The Protohistoric Indian-Land Relationship -- 2. Early Contact and the Deterioration of the Environmental Ethos -- PART TWO: The Ojibwa Cosmos and the Early Fur Trade -- 3. Pimadaziwin: The Good Life -- 4. Contact and Nature's Conspiracy -- PART THREE: The Paradox Resolved -- 5. The Hunter's Relationship with the Hunted -- 6. Conclusion -- Epilogue: The Indian and the Ecology Movement -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Examines the effects of European contact and the fur trade on the relationship between Indians and animals in eastern Canada, from Lake Winnipeg to the Canadian Maritimes, focusing primarily on the Ojibwa, Cree, Montagnais-Naskapi, and Micmac tribes.
• Titolo autorizzato: Keepers of the game
• ISBN: 0-520-34221-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247942703316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: ACLS Humanities E-Book.