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- catalog abstract ""While many Americans are attached to a romantic, idealized view of the human relation to nature in North America prior to European contact, anthropologist Shepard Krech III attempts to examine what characterized actual Native American beliefs and actions. Native Americans had a vast and impressive store of knowledge about the natural world but, like everyone else, couldn't always foresee the consequences of their acts and didn't always act the way they believed they should. Nor were their beliefs always perfectly adaptive to changing circumstances." "The Ecological Indian addresses such fascinating questions as: Were Pleistocene-era humans responsible for the extinction of large mammals like the mastodon? Did the Hohokam of Arizona destroy their society by overirrigating and ultimately oversalinating their crops? What role did Native Americans play in the near-extinctions of the deer, the beaver, and the buffalo? How did Native Americans use fire? Was the natural "Eden" that awed the first European visitors a feature of native "environmentalism" or just of very low population density?"--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11321822.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""While many Americans are attached to a romantic, idealized view of the human relation to nature in North America prior to European contact, anthropologist Shepard Krech III attempts to examine what characterized actual Native American beliefs and actions. Native Americans had a vast and impressive store of knowledge about the natural world but, like everyone else, couldn't always foresee the consequences of their acts and didn't always act the way they believed they should. Nor were their beliefs always perfectly adaptive to changing circumstances." "The Ecological Indian addresses such fascinating questions as: Were Pleistocene-era humans responsible for the extinction of large mammals like the mastodon? Did the Hohokam of Arizona destroy their society by overirrigating and ultimately oversalinating their crops? What role did Native Americans play in the near-extinctions of the deer, the beaver, and the buffalo? How did Native Americans use fire? Was the natural "Eden" that awed the first European visitors a feature of native "environmentalism" or just of very low population density?"--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-308) and index.".
- catalog description "Pleistocene extinctions -- The Hohokam -- Eden -- Fire -- Buffalo -- Deer -- Beaver.".
- catalog extent "318 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Ecological Indian.".
- catalog identifier "0393047555".
- catalog identifier "9780393047554".
- catalog isFormatOf "Ecological Indian.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : W. W. Norton & Co.,".
- catalog relation "Ecological Indian.".
- catalog spatial "North America".
- catalog spatial "North America.".
- catalog subject "333.7/089/97 21".
- catalog subject "E98.P5 K74 1999".
- catalog subject "Human ecology North America Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Indian philosophy North America.".
- catalog subject "Indians in popular culture North America.".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Public opinion.".
- catalog subject "Philosophy of nature North America.".
- catalog subject "Public opinion North America.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Pleistocene extinctions -- The Hohokam -- Eden -- Fire -- Buffalo -- Deer -- Beaver.".
- catalog title "The ecological Indian : myth and history / Shepard Krech III.".
- catalog type "text".