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This book looks at hunting and gathering societies in Australia and North America, searching for the essential, as distinct from local, manifestations of human-environment relations. It examines the availability of resources in relation to the requirements of stable and expanding human populations.
List of contents
About the Series -- Introduction -- Mobility as a Factor Limiting Resource Use in the Columbia Plateau of North America -- Fire Technology and Resource Management in Aboriginal North America and Australia -- To Have and Have Not: The Ecology of Sharing Among Hunter-Gatherers -- The Control of Productive Resources on the Northwest Coast of North America -- Food-Named Groups Among Northern Paiute in North America's Great Basin: An Ecological Interpretation -- A Boundary Is to Cross: Observations on Yolngu Boundaries and Permission -- People with "Politicks": Management of Land and Personnel on Australia's Cape York Peninsula -- Always Ask: Resource Use and Land Ownership Among Pintupi Aborigines of the Australian Western Desert -- Production and Reproduction of Key Resources Among the Tiwi of North Australia -- A Conservation Ethic and Environment: The Koyukon of Alaska -- The Unity of Hunting-Gathering Societies: Reflections on Economic Forms and Resource Management
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Nancy M. Williams, Eugene S. Hunn
Summary
This book looks at hunting and gathering societies in Australia and North America, searching for the essential, as distinct from local, manifestations of human-environment relations. It examines the availability of resources in relation to the requirements of stable and expanding human populations.
