Resource Managers: North American and Australian Huntergatherers

ISBN-13: 9780367301279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 280 str.

Opis

This book looks at hunting and gathering societies in Australia and North America, searching for the essential, as distinct from local, manifestations of human-environment relations. It examines the availability of resources in relation to the requirements of stable and expanding human populations.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Nancy M. Williams, Eugene S. Hunn