Description
Book SynopsisThis volume considers two British Columbia Native communities – the Lillooet and Shuswap communities of Fountain and Pavilion – and traces their development into complex societies.
Trade ReviewThis volume gathers together a variety of investigations that were subsidiary to the main archaeological work, work primarily concerned with aspects of ethnographic use of this environment by the Lillooet ...This will be an important volume for my library, and one that may gain importance when the main research findings, those deriving from the Keatly Creek site itself, reach print. -- R.G. Matson * Canadian Journal of Archaeology *
A book of vital importance for specialists in these areas, as well as for scholars interested in subsistence strategies among Native peoples in other parts of North America. -- Barbara Angel * Canadian Book Review Annual *
Hayden's chapters offer clear and extended discussions of his current views on cultural ecology, cultural materialism, and complex hunter-gatherers. All of the chapters are clear and well written. The volume will be a major source of comparative information for archaeologists and ethnographers for decades. * Choice, American Library Association *
Table of ContentsFigures, Plates, and Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Ecology and Culture / Brian Hayden
2 Environmental Units / Diana Alexander
3 A Reconstruction of Prehistoric Land Use in the Mid-Fraser River Area Based on Ethnographic Data / Diana Alexander
4 Salmon Availability, Technology, and Cultural Adaptation in the Fraser River Watershed / Michael Kew
5 Fraser Lillooet Salmon Fishing / Steven Romanoff
6 Stl’atl’imx (Fraser River Lillooet) Fishing / Dorothy I.D. Kennedy and Randy Bouchard
7 Traditional and Contemporary Land and Resource Use by Ts'kw’aylaxw and Xaxli’p Bands / Robert Tyhurst
8 Plant Resources of the Stl’atl’imx (Fraser River Lillooet) People: A Window into the Past / Nancy J. Turner
9 The Cultural Ecology of Hunting and Potlatches Among the Lillooet Indians / Steven Romanoff
10 Conflict and Salmon on the Interior Plateau of British Columbia / Aubrey Cannon
11 Conclusions: Ecology and Complex Hunter/Gatherers / Brian Hayden
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