Tending the wild : Native American knowledge and the management of California's natural resources / M. Kat Anderson.

Main entry:

Anderson, Kat, 1955-

Title & Author:

Tending the wild : Native American knowledge and the management of California's natural resources / M. Kat Anderson.

Publication:

Description:

xxix, 526 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-470) and index.
pt. I. California at contact -- 1. The wildlife, plants, and people -- 2. Gathering, hunting, and fishing -- 3. The collision of worlds -- pt. II. Indigenous land management and its ecological basis -- 4. Methods of caring for the land -- 5. Landscapes of stewardship -- 6. Basketry : cultivating forbs, sedges, grasses, and tules -- 7. From arrows to weirs : cultivating shrubs and trees -- 8. California's cornucopia : a calculated abundance -- 9. Plant foods aboveground : seeds, grains, leaves, and fruits -- 10. Plant foods belowground : bulbs, corms, rhizomes, taproots, and tubers -- pt. III. Rekindling the old ways -- 11. Contemporary California Indian harvesting and management practices -- 12. Restoring landscapes with native knowledge -- Coda : indigenous wisdom in the modern world.

Summary:

"Tending the Wild is an examination of the extensive knowledge Native Americans brought to bear in managing California's natural resources and the imprint this management left on the state's landscape. M. Kat Anderson presents a wealth of information gleaned from biological research and historical literature, as well as interviews with California Indians who describe the Old Ways of relating to nature they learned from their parents and grandparents and still practice today. The complex picture that emerges dispels the stereotype of Native Americans as hunter-gatherers, a stereotype long perpetuated in anthropological and historical literature."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520238567 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520238565 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520248511 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520248519 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520280434
0520280431

Subject:

Indians of North America Agriculture California.
Indians of North America California History.
Human ecology California.
Nature Effect of human beings on California History.
Indians Agriculture California.
Peuples autochtones Agriculture Californie.
Peuples autochtones Californie Histoire.
Écologie humaine Californie.
Êtres humains Influence sur la nature Californie Histoire.
Indians Agriculture
Human ecology
Indians of North America
Indians of North America Agriculture
Nature Effect of human beings on
Umweltverträglichkeit
Umweltnutzung
Indianer
Iwi taketake.
California
Kalifornien
Indigenous peoples -- Agriculture -- North America -- California

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316021
Call No.: 316021
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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