The Fishermen's Frontier
People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska
In The Fishermen's Frontier, David Arnold examines the economic, social, cultural, and political context in which salmon have been harvested in southeast Alaska over the past 250 years. He starts with the aboriginal fishery, in which Native fishers lived in close connection with salmon ecosystems and developed rituals and lifeways that reflected their intimacy.The transformation of the salmon fishery in southeastern Alaska from an aboriginal resource to an industrial commodity has been fraught with historical ironies. Tribal peoples -- usually considered egalitarian and communal in nature -- managed their fisheries with a strict notion of pro…
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- ISBN: 978-0-295-98975-4
- EAN: 9780295989754
- Produktnummer: 20514910
- Verlag: University of Washington Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 296 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'919 KB
- Abbildungen: 24 illus.
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David F. Arnold. Foreword by William Cronon
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