Ancient pathways, ancestral knowledge : ethnobotany and ecological wisdom of Indigenous peoples of northwestern North America /

Ancient pathways, ancestral knowledge : ethnobotany and ecological wisdom of Indigenous peoples of northwestern North America /

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Author / Creator:Turner, Nancy J., 1947- author.
Imprint:Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]
©2014
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:McGill-Queen's Native and northern series ; 74
McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 74.
Subject:
Indians of North America -- Ethnobotany -- Canada, Western.
Indians of North America -- Ethnobotany -- Canada, Northern.
Traditional ecological knowledge -- Canada, Western.
Traditional ecological knowledge -- Canada, Northern.
Indians of North America -- Ethnobotany -- Northwestern States.
Traditional ecological knowledge -- Northwestern States.
Indians of North America -- Ethnobotany.
Traditional ecological knowledge.
Northern Canada.
Western Canada.
United States -- Northwestern States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11219215
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Varying Form of Title:Ethnobotany and ecological wisdom of Indigenous peoples of northwestern North America
ISBN:9780773585393
0773585397
9780773585409
0773585400
9780773543805
0773543805
Notes:"Legal deposit second quarter 2014"--Title pages verso.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Print version record.
Summary:Volume 1: The History and Practice of Indigenous Plant Knowledge Volume 2: The Place and Meaning of Plants in Indigenous Cultures and Worldviews Nancy Turner has studied Indigenous peoples' knowledge of plants and environments in northwestern North America for over forty years. In Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge, she integrates her research into a two-volume ethnobotanical tour-de-force. Drawing on information shared by Indigenous botanical experts and collaborators, the ethnographic and historical record, and from linguistics, palaeobotany, archaeology, phytogeography, and other fields, Turner weaves together a complex understanding of the traditions of use and management of plant resources in this vast region. She follows Indigenous inhabitants over time and through space, showing how they actively participated in their environments, managed and cultivated valued plant resources, and maintained key habitats that supported their dynamic cultures for thousands of years, as well as how knowledge was passed on from generation to generation and from one community to another. To understand the values and perspectives that have guided Indigenous ethnobotanical knowledge and practices, Turner looks beyond the details of individual plant species and their uses to determine the overall patterns and processes of their development, application, and adaptation. Volume 1 presents a historical overview of ethnobotonical knowledge in the region before and after European contact. The ways in which Indigenous peoples used and interacted with plants - for nutrition, technologies, and medicine - are examined. Drawing connections between similarities across languages, Turner compares the names of over 250 plant species in more than fifty Indigenous languages and dialects to demonstrate the prominence of certain plants in various cultures and the sharing of goods and ideas between peoples. She also examines the effects that introduced species and colonialism had on the region's Indigenous peoples and their ecologies. Volume 2 provides a sweeping account of how Indigenous organizational systems developed to facilitate the harvesting, use, and cultivation of plants, to establish economic connections across linguistic and cultural borders, and to preserve and manage resources and habitats. Turner describes the worldviews and philosophies that emerged from the interactions between peoples and plants, and how these understandings are expressed through cultures' stories and narratives. Finally, she explores the ways in which botanical and ecological knowledge can be and are being maintained as living, adaptive systems that promote healthy cultures, environments, and indigenous plant populations. Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge both challenges and contributes to existing knowledge of Indigenous peoples' land stewardship while preserving information that might otherwise have been lost. Providing new and captivating insights into the anthropogenic systems of northwestern North America, it will stand as an authoritative reference work and contribute to a fuller understanding of the interactions between cultures and ecological systems.
Other form:Print version: Turner, Nancy J., 1947- Ancient pathways, ancestral knowledge. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014] 9780773543805

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