A young student of anthropology receives an offer she can't refuse: the chance to live among the PumE, a South American hunting-and-gathering people who call the tropical Venezuelan savannah home. During their time in the village of Doro AnA, the author and the principal researcher study a vanishing way of life in which cash money, the written word, automobiles, and airplanes are rare and frightening intrusions.
Adopted into a PumE family, Yu's informal and personal accounts of events during her two year stay sparkle with descriptive flourishes and turns of phrase as she describes...
A young student of anthropology receives an offer she can't refuse: the chance to live among the PumE, a South American hunting-and-gathering peopl...
Humans are unique in their ability to inhabit an immense range of physical habitats. This capacity partially results from the need to cope with variation in spatial and temporal distributions of critical resources. Yet factors other than the search for food often impacts relocation. Information gathering, raw material collection, social networking, trade, and mate search each present mobility needs that compete with daily food searches. While physical evidence might explain such human behavior, ethnographic information can reveal how these events interrelate, providing the missing link...
Humans are unique in their ability to inhabit an immense range of physical habitats. This capacity partially results from the need to cope with variat...
America s western rivers are under assault from development, pollution, invasive species, and climate change. Returning these eco- systems to the time of European contact is often the stated goal for restoration efforts, yet neither the influence of indigenous societ- ies on rivers at the time of contact nor the deeper evolutionary relationships are yet understood by the scientific world. This volume presents a unique synthesis of scientific discoveries and traditional knowledge about the ecology of iconic river species in the American West.
Building from a foundation in fisheries...
America s western rivers are under assault from development, pollution, invasive species, and climate change. Returning these eco- systems to the t...
