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Anthropological Papers: Before the Wilderness : Environmental Management by Native Californians by Kat Anderson (1993, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMalki-Ballena Press
ISBN-100879191260
ISBN-139780879191269
eBay Product ID (ePID)735852
Product Key Features
Number of Pages476 Pages
Publication NameBefore the Wilderness : Environmental Management by Native Californians
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1993
SubjectEnvironmental Conservation & Protection, Ecology
TypeTextbook
AuthorKat Anderson
Subject AreaNature
SeriesAnthropological Papers
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight27.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN93-006936
Series Volume NumberNo. 40
Compiled byAnderson, Kat, Blackburn, Thomas C.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal304.2/8/089970794
SynopsisThe explorers, the gold-seekers, and the settlers who arrived in California in the mid-19th century saw California as a wilderness unmodified by the Indians who lived in it. The authors of this book tell a different story. That landscape the newcomers saw was not a wilderness, not untouched by nature. It was a landscape carefully managed by knowledgeable people to provide them with food, clothing, shelter, fuel, and tools. It was a landscape where the wilderness came later-after Euro-Americans had stopped the controlled burning the Indians had practiced, drained the wet meadows that had preserved the water supplies, and fenced off the areas where Native California women's coppicing had encouraged the growth of choice basketry materials. This is a book for those interested in the beginnings of agriculture, for here, in the salubrious climate of California, peoples who lived mainly by hunting and gathering had taken, by the eighteenth century, many of the steps that make up the technology of agriculture. This is also a book for those interested in learning better ways to manage our environment now. Our Forest Service and parks have already acknowledged the value of controlled burning. We may some day catch up with Australia, where the aborigines participate in the management of the national parks because of their special knowledge.
