Nature And the Environment in Pre-columbian American Life

Informationen zum Autor Stacy Kowtko is assistant professor of history at Spokane Community College. She teaches Interdisciplinary Studies classes and American History classes. Her current research involves the history and culture of tourism by Americans. Klappentext Prehistoric North Americans lived on, in, and surrounded by nature. As a result, everything they were resulted from this co-existence. From interpersonal relations to supernatural beliefs, from housing size and function to the food they ate and clothing they wore, the life of Native Americans before the arrival of Europeans was intimately intertwined with the environment. What is known about these societies is often sketchy at best, having survived largely through archaeological remains and oral tradition. Scholars have tried to understand Native American history on its own terms, trying to understand who and what they were in reality - a complex, diverse multitude of populations that defined themselves entirely through what they saw, heard, and experienced everyday - their natural environment. This accessible resource provides an excellent introduction for those needing a first step to researching the daily lives of Native Americans in the centuries before the arrival of Europeans. Zusammenfassung Provides an introduction to the daily lives of Native Americans in the centuries before the arrival of Europeans. This work provides an overview of aspects of how native peoples interacted with the environment: How did prehistoric North Americans use their knowledge of the environment to hunt and gather for food! or raise crops? Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Timeline of Native History in Precontact North America 1. The People and the Environment: Who Was Here before Columbus 2. Animal and Human Interaction: Natural Cooperation in the Environment 3. Agriculture: Cultivating a Living out of the Environment 4. Human Habitation in the Environment: Live and Let Live 5. Survival of the Most Resourceful: Hunting and Gathering 6. Spiritual Environment: Religious Beliefs and Practices 7. Movement in the Environment: Migration and Transportation 8. The Art of Fun and Games: Native American Leisure and the Environment 9. Two Halves of the Same Environment: Gender Roles in Native American Society Epilogue Annotated Bibliography Index ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Stacy Kowtko, Stacy S. Kowtko, Kowtko Stacy S.
• Verlag: Abc Clio Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.08.2006
• EAN: 9780313334726
• ISBN: 978-0-313-33472-6
• Abmessung: 165 mm x 248 mm x 25 mm
• Serien: Daily Life Through History; The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series: Nature and the Environment in Everyday Life; Daily Life through History; The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series: Nature and the Environment in Everyday Life
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Biologie > Ökologie; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Cultural Studies, American History, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, The environment, Science / Environmental Science, History of the Americas