Ecological Indian
Author | : Shepard Krech |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1999 |
ISBN-10 | : 0393321002 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780393321005 |
Rating | : 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Download or read book Ecological Indian written by Shepard Krech and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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