1st Edition
Resource Managers: North American And Australian Huntergatherers
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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As environmental management becomes of increasing concern to both industrial and developing societies, it is instructive to look at the fundamental relationship between man and environment as exemplified by the hunter-gatherer cultures, in which resource management was and is vital to the very existence of human life. The authors of this book look at hunting and gathering societies in Australia... Read more
About the Series -- Introduction -- Mobility as a Factor Limiting Resource Use in the Columbia Plateau of North America -- Fire Technology and Resource Management in Aboriginal North America and Australia -- To Have and Have Not: The Ecology of Sharing Among Hunter-Gatherers -- The Control of Productive Resources on the Northwest Coast of North America -- Food-Named Groups Among Northern Paiute in North America's Great Basin: An Ecological Interpretation -- A Boundary Is to Cross: Observations on Yolngu Boundaries and Permission -- People with "Politicks": Management of Land and Personnel on Australia's Cape York Peninsula -- Always Ask: Resource Use and Land Ownership Among Pintupi Aborigines of the Australian Western Desert -- Production and Reproduction of Key Resources Among the Tiwi of North Australia -- A Conservation Ethic and Environment: The Koyukon of Alaska -- The Unity of Hunting-Gathering Societies: Reflections on Economic Forms and Resource Management
Biography
Nancy M. Williams, Eugene S. Hunn
