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Salmon and acorns feed our people : colonialism, nature, and social action /

"Once the third largest salmon-producing stream in the Western United States, the Klamath River has, as of 2014, fallen to only 4% of its previous productivity. This gives the once wealthy Karuk Tribe the dubious honor of having one of the most dramatic and recent diet shifts in North America....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Norgaard, Kari Marie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2019.
Colección:Nature, society, and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Mutual constructions of race and nature on the Klamath
  • 2. Ecological dynamics of settler-colonialism : Smokey Bear and fire suppression as colonial violence
  • 3. Research as resistance : food, relationships, and the links between environmental and human health
  • 4. Environmental decline and changing gender practices : what happens to Karuk gender practices when there are no fish or acorns?
  • 5. Emotions of environmental decline : Karuk cosmologies, emotions, and environmental justice
  • Conclusion: Climate change as a strategic opportunity?
  • Methodological appendix.