| Description |
x, 310 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-299) and index. |
| Contents |
Native American management and conservation of biodiversity in the Sonoran Desert bioregion : an ethnoecological perspective / Gary Paul Nabhan -- Relationships between Mexican ethnobotanical diversity and indigenous peoples / Robert Bye, Edelmira Linares -- Ethnopharmacology and the search for new therapeutics / Walter H. Lewis -- "We live by them" : native knowledge of biodiversity in the great basin of western North America / Catherine S. Fowler -- "Just like a garden" : traditional resource management and biodiversity conservation on the interior plateau of British Columbia / Sandra L. Peacock, Nancy J. Turner -- Iwigara : a Raramuri cognitive model of biodiversity and its effects on land management / Enrique Salmon -- Human disturbance and biodiversity : a case study from northern New Mexico / Richard I. Ford -- Levels of native biodiversity in eastern North America / Gayle J. Fritz -- Ethnohistory of aboriginal landscapes in the southeastern United States / Julia E. Hammett. |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Ethnobiology.
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Indians of Mexico -- Ethnobiology.
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Biodiversity -- North America.
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Human ecology -- North America.
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| Added Author |
Minnis, Paul E.
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Elisens, Wayne J., 1948-
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| ISBN |
0806132329 (hc) |
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