Biodiversity and Native America

by Elisens, Wayne J. Minnis, Paul E.

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Title Statements

Full title :Biodiversity and Native America / edited by Paul E. Minnis and Wayne J. Elisens.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2000.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS
Place of Publication:Norman, Okla
Language:eng
Publication Date:2000.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0585230684, 9780585230689
oclc:ocm44954604
LC Classification:E98.B54
Dewey Decimal:304.2/089/97

List of illustrations -- Introduction -- Issues and overviews ; 1. Native American management and conservation of biodiversity in the Sonoran Desert bioregion: An ethnoecological perspective ; 2. Relationships between Mexican ethnobotanical diversity and indigenous peoples ; 3. Ethnopharmacology and the search for new therapeutics -- Ethnographic case studies ; 4. "We live by them": Native knowledge of biodiversity in the Great Basin of Western North America ; 5. "Just like a garden": Traditional resource management and biodiversity conservation on the interior plateau of British Columbia ; 6. Iwigara: A Raramuri cognitive model of biodiversity and its effects on land management -- Prehistory and biodiversity ; 7. Human disturbance and biodiversity: A case study from Northern New Mexico ; 8. Levels of Native biodiversity in Eastern North America ; 9. Ethnohistory of aboriginal landscapes in the Southeastern United States -- List of contributors -- Index.

Subjects

Biodiversité -- Amérique du Nord Biodiversity Biodiversity -- North America Écologie humaine -- Amérique du Nord Electronic books human ecology Human ecology -- North America Indians of Mexico -- Ethnobiology Indians of North America -- Ethnobiology Indiens -- Ethnobiologie. -- Amérique d… Indiens d'Amérique -- Ethnobiologie. --… North America SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography