Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade
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- Synopsis
- From the book's foreword: "In the present book, Calvin Martin pursues his bio-historical studies further with particular reference to the northeastern hunting-and-gathering groups, exploring the seeming paradox presented, on one hand, by well-documented accounts of Indian cosmology which requires careful and reverential use of natural resources and, on the other hand, by equally well-documented evidence of Indians engaging in wanton slaughter of game. Mar-tin turns to the Indian world view and heretofore neglected entries in the documentary record concerning ecological prob-lems to supply missing elements in socioeconomic analyses of the Indian and the fur trade to date. From a fur trader's autopsy of a diseased beaver to Indian etiological concepts that offended animals visit sickness on humankind, Martin provides a per-suasive case that far more than mere cupidity for trade goods underlay the Indians' apparent abandonment of their "conser-vationist"
- Copyright:
- 1978
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 220 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780520046375
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 05/31/07
- Copyrighted By:
- The Regents of the University of California
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- 3
- Proofread By:
- RochC
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.