"Bringing together some of the world's most prominent specialists on Northwest Coast cultures, Keeping It Living is the first comprehensive overview of how Native Americans managed the landscape and cared for the plant communities on which they depended, from the Oregon coast to…
Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "more than 340 color images of the people, the terrain, and nearly all of the plants mentioned in the text, as well as an audio file of a traditional Bedouin song and its translation and analysis."--Jacket.
Holz - Holznutzung - Rinde - Korbflechten - Weben - Pflanzennutzung - Red cedar - Yellow cedar - Chamaecyparis nootkatensis - Thuja plicata.
"Fire is a daunting human ecological challenge and a major subject in science and policy debates about global trends in land conversion, climate change, and human health. Persistent environmental orthodoxies reduce complex burning traditions to overly simplistic representations …
"The CRC Ethnobotany Desk Reference contains almost 30,000 concise ethnobotanical monographs of plant species characteristics and an inventory of claimed attributes and historical uses by cultures throughout the world - the most ambitious attempt to date to inventory plants on a…
'In the Shadow of Slavery' explores the wealth of plant life brought to the Americas by slaves and slave ships as provisions, medicines, cordage and bedding, and afterwards cultivated in garden plots. These included coffee, watermelon and okra, as well as the constituents of man…
