Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade

1. Auflage 1982
ISBN: 978-0-520-04637-5
Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 281 g

Examines the effects of European contact and the fur trade on the relationship between Indians and animals in eastern Canada, from Lake Winnipeg to the Canadian Maritimes, focusing primarily on the Ojibwa, Cree, Montagnais-Naskapi, and Micmac tribes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, Calvin

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lurie, Nancy

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreward, by Nancy Oestreich Lure
Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Paradox

Part One: An Ecological Interpreation of European Contact with the Micmac
1. The Protohistoric Indian-Land Relationship
2. Early Contact and the Deterioration of the Environmental Ethos

Part Two: The Ojibwa Cosmo and the Early Fur Trade
3. Pimadaziwin: The Good Life
4. Contact and Nature's Conspiracy

Part Three: The Paradox Resolved
5. The Hunter's Relationship with the Hunted
6. Conclusion

Epilogue: The Indian and the Ecology Movement
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Calvin Luther Martin, formerly a professor of history at Rutgers University, now lives and writes in the Adirondacks.