Respect and responsibility in Pacific Coast indigenous nations : the world raven makes / / E. N. Anderson and Raymond Pierotti

• Autore: Anderson E. N.
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 pages)
• Disciplina: 304.2
• Soggetto topico: Human ecology; Indians of North America
• Persona (resp. second.): PierottiRaymond
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1: Commons and Management -- Common-Pool Resource Management -- The Pacific Coast of North America -- References -- Chapter 2: Looking to the Sea: Economics and Ecology in the Pacific Northwest -- Defining the Region -- Fisheries -- Marine Mammals -- Cetaceans -- Pinnipeds -- Sea Otter -- References -- Chapter 3: Looking to the Land: Terrestrial Ecology -- Mammals -- Herbaceous Plants -- Trees -- References -- Chapter 4: Traditional Cultural Areas -- Origins -- Languages -- Contacts and Trade -- Kinship -- References -- Chapter 5: Social and Cultural-Ecological Dynamics -- Chiefs and Houses -- Environment and Naming Social Units -- Warfare -- Feasts and Potlatches -- Ownership: A Key to Management -- References -- Chapter 6: Traditional Resource Management -- Complexity and Challenges -- Calories and Food -- Fish: The Key Resource -- Sea Mammals -- Managing Shellfish -- Game Management and Conservation -- Domestication and Taming -- Plant Resource Management -- References -- Chapter 7: White Settler Contact and Its Consequences -- Hard Times -- Resource Mismanagement Since 1800 -- References -- Chapter 8: The Ideology Behind It All -- General Principles -- Hunting and Conserving -- A Bridge to Creation Myths -- Spirits and Places -- Knowledge: Empirical and Spirit-Driven -- Community, Human and Nonhuman -- Stewardship -- The Vision Quest -- Shamanism -- References -- Chapter 9: Animism and Rationality: North vs ``West´´ -- References -- Chapter 10: Respect and Its Corollaries -- Respect as Basic -- Spirit Guardians -- Respecting Plants -- Conflicts with Respect -- References -- Chapter 11: Teachings and Stories -- Stories in Contexts -- Overhunting -- Respect Shown to Individual Animals -- Themes and Variations -- Transformers -- Pointing Morals -- References. ; Chapter 12: The Visual Art -- References -- Chapter 13: Conclusions -- Summary of What Has Gone Before -- References -- Chapter 14: Appendix 1: Indigenous California -- Humans as Part of the Ecological System -- References -- Chapter 15: Appendix 2: Wider Connections -- A Circumpolar Worldview -- Animism? -- Conservation Ethics -- Shamanism -- References -- Chapter 16: Appendix 3: The ``Wasteful´´ Native Debunked -- References.
• Titolo autorizzato: Respect and responsibility in Pacific Coast indigenous nations
• ISBN: 3-031-15586-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910616385903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation