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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