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Indians, animals, and the fur trade : a critique of Keepers of the game / edited by Shepard Krech III.
Set of anthropological essays responding to the challenges generated by the historian Calvin Martin with his 1978 book, 'Keepers of the game: Indian animal relationships and the fur trade', regarding Indian motivation in the fur trade.
Record details
- ISBN: 0820305634
- ISBN: 9780820305639
- Physical Description: 207 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©1981.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Initial versions of these papers were presented in the symposium, 'Ethnohistorical perspectives on Keepers of the game, ' at the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Albany, N.Y., October 11-14, 1979"--Introd., notes, p. 9. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The war between Indians and animals / Calvin Martin -- Ontario native people and the epidemics of 1634-1640 / Bruce G. Trigger -- Northeastern Indian concepts of conservation and the fur trade: a critique of Calvin Martin's thesis / Charles A. Bishop -- Keepers of the game and the nature of explanation / Dean R. Snow -- "Throwing bad medicine": sorcery, disease, and the fur trade among the Kutchin and other Northern Athapaskans / Shepard Krech III -- The nature of evil: of whales and sea otters / Lydia T. Black -- Why the Southeastern Indians slaughtered deer / Charles M. Hudson, Jr. -- Animals and disease in Indian belief / William C. Sturtevant -- Comment / Calvin Martin. |
| Additional Physical Form available Note: | Also issued online. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | E 98 .H8 C2 I53 1981 | 269470 | Stacks | Reshelving | - |
| Lummi Library | E 98 .H8 C2 I53 1981 | 285299 | Stacks | Reshelving | - |