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Keeping it living : traditions of plant use and cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America /

"Bringing together some of the world's most prominent specialists on Northwest Coast cultures, Keeping It Living is the first comprehensive overview of how Native Americans managed the landscape and cared for the plant communities on which they depended, from the Oregon coast to Southeast...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Deur, Douglas, 1969-, Turner, Nancy J., 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : Vancouver : University of Washington Press ; UBC Press, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface, Umeek of Ahousat / E. Richard Atleo
  • Introduction: reassessing indigenous resource management, reassessing the history of an idea / Douglas Deur and Nancy J. Turner
  • Low-level food production and the Northwest Coast / Bruce D. Smith
  • Intensification of food production on the Northwest Coast and elsewhere / Kenneth M. Ames
  • Solving the perennial paradox : ethnobotanical evidence for plant resource management on the Northwest Coast / Nancy J. Turner and Sandra Peacock
  • "Fine line between two nations" : ownership patterns for plant resources among Northwest Coast indigenous peoples / Nancy J. Turner, Robin Smith, and James T. Jones
  • Coast Salish resource management : incipient agriculture? / Wayne Suttles
  • Intensification of wapato (Sagittaria latifolia) by the Chinookan people of the Lower Columbia River / Melissa Darby
  • Documenting precontact plant management on the Northwest Coast : an example of prescribed burning in the Central and Upper Fraser Valley, British Columbia / Dana Lepofsky [and others]
  • Cultivating in the Northwest : early accounts of Tsimshian horticulture / James McDonald
  • Tlingit horticulture : an indigenous or introduced development? / Madonna L. Moss
  • Tending the garden, making the soil : Northwest Coast estuarine gardens as engineered environments / Douglas Deur
  • Conclusions / Douglas Deur and Nancy J. Turner.