ISBN:
9783031155864
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (321 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation Series v.13
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.208997
Keywords:
Human ecology
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1: Commons and Management -- Common-Pool Resource Management -- The Pacific Coast of North America -- References -- Chapter 2: Looking to the Sea: Economics and Ecology in the Pacific Northwest -- Defining the Region -- Fisheries -- Marine Mammals -- Cetaceans -- Pinnipeds -- Sea Otter -- References -- Chapter 3: Looking to the Land: Terrestrial Ecology -- Mammals -- Herbaceous Plants -- Trees -- References -- Chapter 4: Traditional Cultural Areas -- Origins -- Languages -- Contacts and Trade -- Kinship -- References -- Chapter 5: Social and Cultural-Ecological Dynamics -- Chiefs and Houses -- Environment and Naming Social Units -- Warfare -- Feasts and Potlatches -- Ownership: A Key to Management -- References -- Chapter 6: Traditional Resource Management -- Complexity and Challenges -- Calories and Food -- Fish: The Key Resource -- Sea Mammals -- Managing Shellfish -- Game Management and Conservation -- Domestication and Taming -- Plant Resource Management -- References -- Chapter 7: White Settler Contact and Its Consequences -- Hard Times -- Resource Mismanagement Since 1800 -- References -- Chapter 8: The Ideology Behind It All -- General Principles -- Hunting and Conserving -- A Bridge to Creation Myths -- Spirits and Places -- Knowledge: Empirical and Spirit-Driven -- Community, Human and Nonhuman -- Stewardship -- The Vision Quest -- Shamanism -- References -- Chapter 9: Animism and Rationality: North vs ``West´´ -- References -- Chapter 10: Respect and Its Corollaries -- Respect as Basic -- Spirit Guardians -- Respecting Plants -- Conflicts with Respect -- References -- Chapter 11: Teachings and Stories -- Stories in Contexts -- Overhunting -- Respect Shown to Individual Animals -- Themes and Variations -- Transformers -- Pointing Morals -- References.
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