Forgotten Fires: Native Americans and the Transient WildernessUniversity of Oklahoma Press, 2002 - 364 páginas A common stereotype about American Indians is that for centuries they lived in static harmony with nature, in a pristine wilderness that remained unchanged until European colonization. Omer C. Stewart was one of the first anthropologists to recognize that Native Americans made significant impact across a wide range of environments. Most important, they regularly used fire to manage plant communities and associated animal species through varied and localized habitat burning. In Forgotten Fires, editors Henry T. Lewis and M. Kat Anderson present Stewart's original research and insights, written in the 1950s yet still provocative today. Significant portions of Stewart's text have not been available until now, and Lewis and Anderson set Stewart's findings in the context of current knowledge about Native hunter-gatherers and their uses of fire. |
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List of Illustrations xi | 3 |
An Anthropological Critique Henry T Lewis | 17 |
An Ecological Critique M Kat Anderson | 37 |
Blackfeet Indians starting a prairie fire 1903 frontispiece 1 Yosemite Valley 1866 and 1961 | 45 |
The full spectrum of humannature interactions | 47 |
Trajectories of ecosystem changes | 52 |
Indigenous resource management at different levels of biological organization | 53 |
Beating seeds into a collection basket | 57 |
Digging bulbs and tubers with a hardwood digging stick | 58 |
A basketmaker from Massett British Columbia | 59 |
Collecting long straight branches for basketry | 60 |
by Aborigines the World Over Omer C Stewart | 67 |
Abbreviations | 313 |
References Cited Henry T Lewis and M Kat Anderson | 339 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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