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Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America

Product Description: Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts. This collection draws from African and North American cases to argue that the forms of knowledge identified as âindigenousâ resulted from strategies to control environmental resources during and after colonial encounters...read more

By David Gordon (editor) and Krech (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780821419960 | Ohio Univ Pr, April 30, 2012, cover price $59.95

Paperback:

9780821420799 | Reprint edition (Ohio Univ Pr, January 31, 2014), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice.

9780253214980, titled "Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking" | Reprint edition (Indiana Univ Pr, July 1, 2001), cover price $24.00 | also contains Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing and Binge Drinking | About this edition: The author highlights the worst aspects of college life, focusing on hazing and binge drinking and the tragedies that have resulted, and challenging the college administrators who continue to allow it to go on.

Collecting Native America, 1870-1960

Product Description: Between the 1870s and 1950s collectors vigorously pursued the artifacts of Native American groups. Setting out to preserve what they thought was a vanishing culture, they amassed ethnographic and archaeological collections amounting to well over one million objects and founded museums throughout North America that were meant to educate the public about American Indian skills, practices, and beliefs...read more

By Barbara A. Hail (editor) and Krech (editor)

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Paperback:

9781588342775 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, February 15, 2010, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Between the 1870s and 1950s collectors vigorously pursued the artifacts of Native American groups.

Spirits of the Air: Birds and American Indians in the South

By Krech

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Hardcover:

9780820328157 | Univ of Georgia Pr, March 15, 2009, cover price $46.95

Indians, Animals and the Fur Trade: A Critique of Keepers of the Game

Product Description: Exploring the motivations of Indians involved in the fur trade, the contributors to this volume challenge the spiritualist interpretation set forth by Calvin Martin in Keepers of the Game, which dismisses the lure of European goods--the power and leisure that firearms and other tools afforded the Indians--and instead attributes the Indians' willingness to overkill wildlife to the epidemics that decimated their ranks, that not only shattered their religious bonds with game but also unleashed a furious revenge against the animals...read more

By Krech (editor)

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9780820331508 | Univ of Georgia Pr, February 1, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Exploring the motivations of Indians involved in the fur trade, the contributors to this volume challenge the spiritualist interpretation set forth by Calvin Martin in Keepers of the Game, which dismisses the lure of European goods--the power and leisure that firearms and other tools afforded the Indians--and instead attributes the Indians' willingness to overkill wildlife to the epidemics that decimated their ranks, that not only shattered their religious bonds with game but also unleashed a furious revenge against the animals.

Native Americans And the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian

By Judith Antell (foreword by), Michael E. Harkin (editor), Brian Hosmer (contributor), Krech (other contributor) and David Rich Lewis (editor)

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Paperback:

9780803273610 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, March 1, 2007, cover price $30.00

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