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Indian Names For Plants And Animals Among Californian And Other Western North American Tribes
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Book Synopsis Indian Names for Plants and Animals Among Californian and Other Western North American Tribes by : Clinton Hart Merriam
Download or read book Indian Names for Plants and Animals Among Californian and Other Western North American Tribes written by Clinton Hart Merriam and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Biodiversity and Native America by : Paul E. Minnis
Download or read book Biodiversity and Native America written by Paul E. Minnis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the relationship between Native Americans and the natural world, Biodiversity and Native America questions the widespread view that indigenous peoples had minimal ecological impact in North America. Introducing a variety of perspectives - ethnopharmacological, ethnographic, archaeological, and biological - this volume shows that Native Americans were active managers of natural ecological systems. The book covers groups from the sophisticated agriculturalists of the Mississippi River drainage region to the low-density hunter-gatherers of arid western North America. This book allows readers to develop accurate restoration, management, and conservation models through a thorough knowledge of native peoples’ ecological history and dynamics. It also illustrates how indigenous peoples affected environmental patterns and processes, improving crop diversity and agricultural patterns.
Book Synopsis California Indian Languages by : Victor Golla
Download or read book California Indian Languages written by Victor Golla and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages—from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the twentieth-century by Alfred Kroeber and his colleagues, to the extraordinary work of John P. Harrington and C. Hart Merriam. Golla also devotes chapters to the role of language in reconstructing prehistory, and to the intertwining of language and culture in pre-contact California societies, making this work, the first of its kind, an essential reference on California’s remarkable Indian languages.
Book Synopsis Proto Utian Grammar and Dictionary by : Catherine Callaghan
Download or read book Proto Utian Grammar and Dictionary written by Catherine Callaghan and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of over 50 years of research, and it represents an intellectual journey. It is maximally accessible by tabulating the data and inserting frequent cross-references. Dictionary entries are in the alphabetical order of the deepest reconstruction in the set, and there is an English-Utian section at the end of the volume. Yokuts (or Proto Yokuts) is also inserted where there is a resemblance. This strategy is especially helpful for those who wish to use the volume for remote comparison. In this manner, it can serve as a reference book for seminars on non-traditional languages. The volume is also of interest to theoreticians because Utian languages exhibit features that are rare worldwide.
Book Synopsis Neither Wolf Nor Dog by : David Rich Lewis
Download or read book Neither Wolf Nor Dog written by David Rich Lewis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-10-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, Americans looked to the eventual civilization and assimilation of Native Americans through a process of removal, reservation, and directed culture change. Policies for directed subsistence change and incorporation had far-reaching social and environmental consequences for native peoples and native lands. This study explores the experiences of three groups--Northern Utes, Hupas, and Tohono O'odhams--with settled reservation and allotted agriculture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each group inhabited a different environment, and their cultural traditions reflected distinct subsistence adaptations to life in the western United States. Each experienced the full weight of federal agrarian policy yet responded differently, in culturally consistent ways, to subsistence change and the resulting social and environmental consequences. Attempts to establish successful agricultural economies ultimately failed as each group reproduced their own cultural values in a diminished and rapidly changing environment. In the end, such policies and agrarian experiences left Indian farmers marginally incorporated and economically dependent.
Book Synopsis Ethnobiological Classification by : Brent Berlin
Download or read book Ethnobiological Classification written by Brent Berlin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A founder of and leading thinker in the field of modern ethnobiology looks at the widespread regularities in the classification and naming of plants and animals among peoples of traditional, nonliterate societies--regularities that persist across local environments, cultures, societies, and languages. Brent Berlin maintains that these patterns can best be explained by the similarity of human beings' largely unconscious appreciation of the natural affinities among groupings of plants and animals: people recognize and name a grouping of organisms quite independently of its actual or potential usefulness or symbolic significance in human society. Berlin's claims challenge those anthropologists who see reality as a "set of culturally constructed, often unique and idiosyncratic images, little constrained by the parameters of an outside world." Part One of this wide-ranging work focuses primarily on the structure of ethnobiological classification inferred from an analysis of descriptions of individual systems. Part Two focuses on the underlying processes involved in the functioning and evolution of ethnobiological systems in general. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Book Synopsis A Grammar of Patwin by : Lewis C. Lawyer
Download or read book A Grammar of Patwin written by Lewis C. Lawyer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Grammar of Patwin brings together two hundred years of word lists, notebooks, audio recordings, and manuscripts from archives across the United States and synthesizes this scattered collection into the first published description of the Patwin language.
Book Synopsis Plains Miwok Dictionary by : Catherine A. Callaghan
Download or read book Plains Miwok Dictionary written by Catherine A. Callaghan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chimariko Grammar written by Carmen Jany and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chimariko language, now extinct, was spoken in Trinity County, California. This reference grammar, based on data collected by Harrington in the 1920's, represents the most comprehensive description of the language. Written from a functional-typological perspective this work also examines language contact in Northern California showing that grammatical traits are often shared among genetically unrelated languages in geographically contiguous areas.
Book Synopsis Bibliography of the Indians of San Diego County by : Phillip M. White
Download or read book Bibliography of the Indians of San Diego County written by Phillip M. White and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on the Native American groups indigenous to the area that is now San Diego County. All aspects of history and culture are covered, including language and linguistics, arts, agriculture, hunting, religion, mythology, music, political and social structures, dwellings, clothing, and medicinal practices.
Download or read book Steward's Fork written by James K. Agee and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling story of place, Steward’s Fork explores northwest California’s magnificent Klamath Mountains—a region that boasts a remarkable biodiversity, a terrain so rugged that significant landscape features are still being discovered there, and a wealth of natural resources that have been used, and more recently abused, by humans for millennia. James K. Agee, a forest ecologist with more than fifty years experience in the Klamaths, provides a multidimensional perspective on this region and asks: how can we most effectively steward this spectacular landscape toward a sustainable future? In an engaging narrative laced with personal anecdotes, he introduces the dynamics of the Klamath’s ecosystems, including its geology and diverse flora and fauna, and then discusses its native cultures and more recent inhabitants, laying out the effects of industries such as logging, mining, water development, and fishing. Assuming that people will continue to have a close tie to the Klamaths, Agee introduces the principles of restoration ecology to offer a vision of how we can responsibly meet the needs of both people and natural organisms, including plants, fish, and wildlife. This debate over the future of the Klamath’s rich landscape widens into a provocative meditation on nature, culture, and our relationship with the earth itself.
Book Synopsis Bibliography of the Languages of Native California by : William Bright
Download or read book Bibliography of the Languages of Native California written by William Bright and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, annotated listing of over a thousand books, monographs, and articles containing substantive information on all the American Indian languages of California and closely related languages outside its boundaries. Important book reviews are included, as are unpublished theses and dissertations. The main listing is by author, with cross-references for co-author. A single index, which refers back to the main listing by item numbers, lists general works; names of dialects, languages, and language families; and miscellaneous topics.
Book Synopsis A Grammar of Southern Pomo by : Neil Alexander Walker
Download or read book A Grammar of Southern Pomo written by Neil Alexander Walker and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A title in the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description of the Southern Pomo language, which lost its last fluent speaker in 2014. Southern Pomo is one of seven Pomoan languages once spoken in the vicinity of Clear Lake and the Russian River drainage of California. Prior to European contact, a third of all Pomoan peoples spoke Southern Pomo, and descendants of these speakers are scattered across several present-day reservations. These descendants have recently initiated efforts to revitalize the language. The unique culture of Southern Pomo speakers is embedded in the language in several ways. There are separate words for the many different species of oak trees and their different acorns, which were the people's staple cuisine. The kinship system is unusually rich both semantically and morphologically, with terms marked for possession, generation, number, and case. Verbs similarly encode the ancient interactions of speakers with their land in more than a dozen directional suffixes indicating specific paths of movement. A Grammar of Southern Pomo sheds new light on a relatively unknown Indigenous California speech community. In many instances Neil Alexander Walker discusses phenomena that are rare or entirely unattested outside the language and challenges long-standing ideas about what human speech communities can create and pass on to children as well as the degree to which culture and place are inextricably woven into language.
Book Synopsis In Honor of Mary Haas by : William Shipley
Download or read book In Honor of Mary Haas written by William Shipley and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In honor of Mary Haas : from the Haas Festival Conference on Native American Linguistics.
Book Synopsis Northern Sierra Miwok Dictionary by : Catherine A. Callaghan
Download or read book Northern Sierra Miwok Dictionary written by Catherine A. Callaghan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Thread of Discourse by : Joseph Evans Grimes
Download or read book The Thread of Discourse written by Joseph Evans Grimes and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1975 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "The Thread of Discourse".
Book Synopsis Studies in American Indian Languages by : Leanne Hinton
Download or read book Studies in American Indian Languages written by Leanne Hinton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 31 articles (dedicated to Margaret Langdon) represents the multitude of approaches to Native American languages taken by linguists today. Half of the essays treat Hokan languages, but Uto-Aztecan, Penutian, Muskogean, Iroquoian, Mayan, and other groups are also represented, with pieces on phonology, syntax, the lexicon, and discourse.
