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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 (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9781560988151, titled "Collecting Native America, 1870-1960: Collecting Native America, 1870-1960" | Smithsonian Inst Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Between the 1870s and 1950s collectors vigorously pursued the artifacts of Native American groups.
Product Description: The idea of the Native American living in perfect harmony with nature is a cherished contemporary myth. In this book Shepard Krech seeks to correct the stereotype. Krech surveys North American environmental history to explore the relation between humans and the rest of nature before and after the arrival of Europeans...read more
Hardcover:
9780393047554 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 1999), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Looks at the historical truths and falsehoods about Native Americans and their relationship to nature
Paperback:
9780393321005, titled "Ecological Indian: Myth and History" | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 2000, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Challenging many sacrosanct notions about the relationship between Native Americans and nature, the author discusses the possible role of Pleistocene-era humans in eradicating the mastodon, over-irrigation of crops among the Hohokam of Arizona, and slash-and-burn farming techniques.
Prebinding:
9780613914147, titled "Ecological Indian: Myth And History" | Turtleback Books, June 1, 2003, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The idea of the Native American living in perfect harmony with nature is a cherished contemporary myth.
Hardcover:
9780415937320 | Routledge, November 1, 2003, cover price $750.00
9780415937337 | Routledge, October 1, 2003, cover price $55.01 | also contains Handbook of Complexity in Medicine
9780415937344 | Routledge, October 1, 2003, cover price $55.01 | also contains Handbook of Complexity in Medicine
9780415937351 | Routledge, October 1, 2003, cover price $55.01 | also contains High Calorie Diet and the Human Brain: Metabolic Consequences of Long-term Consumption
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 goodsâthe power and leisure that firearms and other tools afforded the Indiansâand 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
Hardcover:
9780820305639 | Univ of Georgia Pr, December 1, 1981, cover price $14.00 | 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 goodsâthe power and leisure that firearms and other tools afforded the Indiansâand 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.
Paperback:
9780820308487 | Univ of Georgia Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $10.00 | 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 goodsâthe power and leisure that firearms and other tools afforded the Indiansâand 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.
Hardcover:
9780806126173 | Rev sub edition (Univ of Oklahoma Pr, June 1, 1994), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Book by Krech III, Shepard
Paperback:
9780912089096 | Haffenreffer Museum of anthropology, January 1, 1995, cover price $25.00
Hardcover:
9780816190386 | G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1981, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Book by Krech, Shepard
Paperback:
9780870736506 | 3 edition (Schenkman Pub Co, June 1, 1981), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Offers fascinating glimpses of the slavery experienced by Mr.
Product Description: The papers in this book focus on several themes: the identification of Indian motives; the degree to which Indians were discriminating consumers and creative participants; and the extent of the native dependency on the trade. It spans the period from the seventeenth century up to and including the twentieth century...read more
Hardcover:
9780774801867 | Univ of British Columbia Pr, October 1, 1984, cover price $26.50 | About this edition: The papers in this book focus on several themes: the identification of Indian motives; the degree to which Indians were discriminating consumers and creative participants; and the extent of the native dependency on the trade.
Product Description: The papers in this book focus on several themes: the identification of Indian motives; the degree to which Indians were discriminating consumers and creative participants; and the extent of the native dependency on the trade. It spans the period from the seventeenth century up to and including the twentieth century...read more
Paperback:
9780774803748 | Reprint edition (Univ of Washington Pr, January 1, 1991), cover price $37.95 | About this edition: The papers in this book focus on several themes: the identification of Indian motives; the degree to which Indians were discriminating consumers and creative participants; and the extent of the native dependency on the trade.
Hardcover:
9780295968827 | Univ of Washington Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Shares the Earl's comments on the Arctic and its inhabitants and shows the artifacts he brought back to England
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