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Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on Northwest Coast of North America
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Douglas Deur
Nancy Turner
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$65.00 Hardcover
Release Date: 10/25/2005
ISBN: 9780774812665
$29.95 Paperback
Release Date: 9/1/2006
ISBN: 9780774812672
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About the Book
Keeping It Living brings together some of the world’s most prominent specialists on Northwest Coast cultures to examine traditional cultivation practices from Oregon to Southeast Alaska. It explores tobacco gardens among the Haida and Tlingit, managed camas plots among the Coast Salish of Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia, estuarine root gardens along the central coast of British Columbia, wapato maintenance on the Columbia and Fraser Rivers, and tended berry plots up and down the entire coast.
With contributions from a host of experts, Native American scholars and elders, Keeping It Living documents practices of manipulating plants and their environments in ways that enhanced culturally preferred plants and plant communities. It describes how indigenous peoples of this region used and cared for over 300 species of plants, from the lofty red cedar to diminutive plants of backwater bogs.
About the Author(s)
Douglas Deur is assistant professor of geography at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Nancy J. Turner is Distinguished Professor in Environmental Studies and Geography at the University of Victoria.
The other contributors include Kenneth M. Ames, E. Richard Atleo (Umeek), Melissa Darby, Douglas Hallett, James T. Jones, Dana Lepofsky, Ken Lertzman, Rolf Mathewes, James McDonald, Sonny McHalsie, Madonna L. Moss, Sandra Peacock, Bruce D. Smith, Robhin Smith, Wayne Suttles, and Kevin Washbrook.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents information is not available at this time.
Reviews
This treatment of historically neglected yet compelling topics provides a welcome contribution to the literature on the subject…[the book] is written in a manner that should appeal to a wide range of readers, including many who will appreciate its regional approach. Those with interests in ethnobotany, indigenous American studies, general history, and most importantly with a desire to more fully comprehend the pre-contact realities of human landscape interactions and what they mean today for the future, will surely find this book of much value.
-- Brian D. Compton, Northwest Indian College, Discovery, v. 35, n.1, Spring 2006.
[O]f all the ways that B.C.’s aboriginal people have been imagined, represented, described, and understood, the one characterization that has persisted is the idea that they just weren’t the sort of people who transformed landscapes the way Europeans did. They didn’t cultivate plants or tend crops…
That last and most persistent misapprehension was already entrenched as a tenet of academic faith in the earliest days of Northwest Coast anthropology but is only now being thoroughly reconsidered, thanks largely to Nancy J. Turner, a U.Vic ethnobotanist of boundless energy and curiosity. For her efforts, Turner is beloved among dozens of British Columbia’s aboriginal communities
With Keeping It Living, Turner and co-editor Douglas Deur of the University of Washington have mustered a broad body of evidence that is a full-on assault upon the hunter-gatherer orthodoxy. Joined by a dozen other academics whose contributions enliven this book, Turner and Deur present a picture of aboriginal life that is utterly different from the sort found in the conventional literature.
-- Terry Glavin, Georgia Straight, April 2006.
This book is the first comprehensive examination of how the first people to inhabit what is now the Pacific Northwest managed the land on which they lived.
Dan Hays, Statesman Journal, Sunday, March 26, 2006.
Rarely does a collection of essays provide a cohesive and convincing argument, but Keeping it Living accomplishes this admirably. …Undoubtedly, this fine collection can be used by other scholars to consider later developments.
Brendan Lindsay, University of California, Riverside, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Spring 2006
[Deur and Turner] are to be commended for the sophistication, high calibre, and thematic unity of this volume, a critical achievement for this sorely undernourished topic in Northwest Coast scholarship…this work will keep the knowledge of Northwest Coast Elders and their forebears alive for present and coming generations. Keeping it Living should be essential reading for all people interested in the history of the Northwest Coast.
—Natasha Lyons, Canadian Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2006
The significance of plants to the aboriginal cultures of the Northwest Coast of North America often takes a back seat to the iconic salmon. Keeping it Living […] brings these essential resources to the forefront. The authors featured in this volume come from a variety of fields, ranging from archaeology and anthropology to ecology and Native American traditional scholarship, and each brings their unique expertise to this collection. They document and discuss a wide array of plant uses, management and cultivation practices, and document many factors that have lead to the scarcity of attention for plants in the anthropological and archaeological communities. […] Keeping It Living is aimed at the academic audience, and so is somewhat technical at times. However, the chapters are largely engaging and well-written, making the volume accessible to the interested amateur and general public.
- Sarah E. Johnson, Western Washington University, The Midden, Vol.40, No.4, 2008
Sample Chapter
A sample chapter of this title is not available at this time. For further information, please email info@ubcpress.ubc.ca.
Related Topics
Native Studies
Environmental Studies
Natural History > Botany
Anthropology
BC Studies
BC Studies > Natural History
BC Studies > Environment
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