Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the...

Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources

M. Kat Anderson
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John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today--that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite & the gold & purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok & Valley Yokuts Indians, modified & made productive by centuries of harvesting, tilling, sowing, pruning, & burning. 

Marvelously detailed & beautifully written, Tending the Wild is an unparalleled examination of Native American knowledge and uses of California's natural resources that reshapes our understanding of native cultures & shows how we might begin to use their knowledge in our own conservation efforts. M. Kat Anderson presents a wealth of information on native land management practices gleaned in part from interviews & correspondence with Native Americans who recall what their grandparents told them about how & when areas were burned, which plants were eaten & which were used for basketry, & how plants were tended. 

The complex picture that emerges from this and other historical source material dispels the hunter-gatherer stereotype long perpetuated in anthropological & historical literature. We come to see California's indigenous people as active agents of environmental change & stewardship. Tending the Wild persuasively argues that this traditional ecological knowledge is essential if we are to successfully meet the challenge of living sustainably.

년:
2005
판:
1
출판사:
University of California Press
언어:
english
페이지:
555
ISBN 10:
1423730410
ISBN 13:
9781423730415
파일:
PDF, 3.34 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2005
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