Indians, Animals, and the Fur Trade

A Critique of Keepers of the Game

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Exploring the motivations of Indians involved in the fur trade, the contributors to this volume challenge the spiritualist interpretation set forth by Calvin Martin in Keepers of the Game, which dismisses the lure of European goods—the power and leisure that firearms and other tools afforded the Indians—and instead attributes the Indians' willingness to overkill wildlife to the epidemics that decimated their ranks, that not only shattered their religious bonds with game but also unleashed a furious revenge against the animals.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-02-01
Mått140 x 216 x 12 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor216
FörlagUniversity of Georgia Press
ISBN9780820331508

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The essayists in the present book give no support whatever to Martin's condescending revival of the irrational savage, and it should be said plainly that this book stands head and shoulders above Martin's Keepers in reliable, documented information, in logic, and in candor. These are carefully considered inquiries far removed from polemics. Much more than Martin's work, they deserve historians' attention as models of how anthropologists can use empirical methods and data in approaching issues of historical as well as ethnological importance.