Eating the Landscape - American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience

Informationen zum Autor Enrique Salmón is head of the American Indian Studies Program at Cal State University East Bay in Hayward, California. He has been a Scholar in Residence at the Heard Museum and a program officer for the Greater Southwest and Northern Mexico regions for the Christensen Fund. He has published several articles and chapters on indigenous ethnobotany, agriculture, nutrition, and traditional ecological knowledge. Klappentext Traversing a range of cultures this book is an illuminating journey through the southwest United States and northern Mexico. Salmón weaves his historical and cultural knowledge as a renowned indigenous ethnobotanist with stories American Indian farmers have shared with him to illustrate how traditional indigenous foodways are rooted in a time-honoured understanding of environmental stewardship. Zusammenfassung Traversing a range of cultures this book is an illuminating journey through the southwest United States and northern Mexico. Salmon weaves his historical and cultural knowledge as a renowned indigenous ethnobotanist with stories American Indian farmers have shared with him to illustrate how traditional indigenous foodways are rooted in a time-honoured understanding of environmental stewardship.

Product details

• Authors: Enrique Salm[n, Enrique Salm¿n, Enrique Salmon, Enrique Salmón
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2012
• EAN: 9780816530113
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-3011-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: First Peoples: New Directions; First Peoples: New Directions
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > General, dictionaries, tables; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous