Tending The Wild: Native American Knowledge And The Management Of California's Natural Resources - Couverture rigide

Anderson, M. Kat

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520238567 ISBN 13 : 9780520238565

Editeur : University of California Press, 2005

Synopsis

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 and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley, were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and Valley Yokuts Indians, modified and made productive by centuries of harvesting, tilling, sowing, pruning, and burning. Marvellously detailed and beautifully written, "Tending the Wild" is an unparalled examination of Native American knowledge and uses of California's natural resources that reshapes our understanding of native cultures, and shows how we might begin to use their knowledge in our own conservation efforts.

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À propos de l?auteur

M. Kat Anderson is a Lecturer in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis; Associate Ecologist at the Agricultural Experimental Station at the University of California, Davis; and a faculty member in the Graduate Group in Ecology at the University of California, Davis. She is coeditor, with T. C. Blackburn, of Before the Wilderness: Native Californians as Environmental Managers (1993) and coeditor, with Henry T. Lewis, of Forgotten Fires: Native Americans and the Transient Wilderness by Omer C. Stewart (2002).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520238567
• ISBN 13: 9780520238565
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 555
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible