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Ecological Indian
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Author : Shepard Krech III
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2000-10-03
Ecological Indian written by Shepard Krech III and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-03 with History categories.
"A good story and first-rate social science."—New York Times Book Review The idea of the Native American living in perfect harmony with nature is one of the most cherished contemporary myths. But how truthful is this larger-than-life image? According to anthropologist Shepard Krech, the first humans in North America demonstrated all of the intelligence, self-interest, flexibility, and ability to make mistakes of human beings anywhere. As Nicholas Lemann put it in The New Yorker, "Krech is more than just a conventional-wisdom overturner; he has a serious larger point to make. . . . Concepts like ecology, waste, preservation, and even the natural (as distinct from human) world are entirely anachronistic when applied to Indians in the days before the European settlement of North America." "Offers a more complex portrait of Native American peoples, one that rejects mythologies, even those that both European and Native Americans might wish to embrace."—Washington Post
The Ecological Indian
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Author : Shepard Krech
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release Date : 1999
The Ecological Indian written by Shepard Krech and has been published by W. W. Norton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Human ecology categories.
Krech (anthropology, Brown U.) treats such provocative issues as whether the Eden in which Native Americans are viewed as living prior to European contact was a feature of native environmentalism or simply low population density; indigenous use of fire; and the Indian role in near-extinctions of buffalo, deer, and beaver. He concludes that early Indians' culturally-mediated closeness with nature was not always congruent with modern conservation ideas, with implications for views of, and by, contemporary Indians. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Ecological Indian
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Author : Shepard Krech
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1999
Ecological Indian written by Shepard Krech and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Krech (anthropology, Brown U.) treats such provocative issues as whether the Eden in which Native Americans are viewed as living prior to European contact was a feature of native environmentalism or simply low population density; indigenous use of fire; and the Indian role in near-extinctions of buffalo, deer, and beaver. He concludes that early Indians' culturally-mediated closeness with nature was not always congruent with modern conservation ideas, with implications for views of, and by, contemporary Indians. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Ecological Indian
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Author : Shepard Krech
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2003
The Ecological Indian written by Shepard Krech and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
A look at the first inhabitants of North America, this book studies their concepts of ecology, waste, and preservation before European settlements of the country.
The Ecological Indian
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Author : Shepard Krech
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Ecological Indian written by Shepard Krech and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Human ecology categories.
Native Americans And The Environment
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Author : Michael Eugene Harkin
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Native Americans And The Environment written by Michael Eugene Harkin and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Nature categories.
Often cited as one of the most decisive campaigns in military history, the Seven Days Battles were the first campaign in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia-as well as the first in which Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson worked together.
Changes In The Land
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Author : William Cronon
language : en
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Release Date : 2011-04-01
Changes In The Land written by William Cronon and has been published by Hill and Wang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with History categories.
The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land, provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land and people influence one another. With its chilling closing line, "The people of plenty were a people of waste," Cronon's enduring and thought-provoking book is ethno-ecological history at its best.
Seeing Green
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Author : Finis Dunaway
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-03
Seeing Green written by Finis Dunaway and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03 with Art categories.
"Over 15 chapters, Dunaway transforms what we know about icons and events. Seeing Green is the first history of ads, films, political posters, and magazine photography in the postwar American environmental movement. From fear of radioactive fallout during the Cold War to anxieties about global warming today, images have helped to produce what Dunaway calls "ecological citizenship, " telling us that "we are all to blame." Dunaway heightens our awareness of how depictions of environmental catastrophes are constructed, manipulated, and fought over" -- Publisher information.
An Environmental History Of India
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Author : Michael H. Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-18
An Environmental History Of India written by Michael H. Fisher and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-18 with History categories.
This longue durée survey of the Indian subcontinent's environmental history reveals the complex interactions among its people and the natural world.
Tending The Wild
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Author : M. Kat Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2005-06-14
Tending The Wild written by M. Kat Anderson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-14 with History categories.
A complex look at California Native ecological practices as a model for environmental sustainability and conservation. John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today—that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and Valley Yokuts Indians, modified and made productive by centuries of harvesting, tilling, sowing, pruning, and burning. Marvelously detailed and beautifully written, Tending the Wild is an unparalleled examination of Native American knowledge and uses of California's natural resources that reshapes our understanding of native cultures and shows how we might begin to use their knowledge in our own conservation efforts. M. Kat Anderson presents a wealth of information on native land management practices gleaned in part from interviews and correspondence with Native Americans who recall what their grandparents told them about how and when areas were burned, which plants were eaten and which were used for basketry, and how plants were tended. The complex picture that emerges from this and other historical source material dispels the hunter-gatherer stereotype long perpetuated in anthropological and historical literature. We come to see California's indigenous people as active agents of environmental change and stewardship. Tending the Wild persuasively argues that this traditional ecological knowledge is essential if we are to successfully meet the challenge of living sustainably.