Resource managers
Subtitle: North American and Australian hunter-gatherers
By: edited by Nancy M. Williams and Eugene S. Hunn.
Contributors: Williams, Nancy M.; Hunn, Eugene S.; American Association for the Advancement of Science. Section H--Anthropology.
Series: AAAS selected symposium ;; 67
Publisher: Westview Press for the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Hunting and gathering societies -- Congresses.; Indians of North America -- Economic conditions -- Congresses.; Aboriginal Australians -- Economic conditions -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
"Based on a symposium which was held at the 1980 AAAS national annual meeting in San Francisco, California, January 3-8 ... sponsored by AAAS Section H (Anthropology)."--Verso t.p.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Eugene S. Hunn, Nancy M. Williams; title: Mobility as a factor limiting resource use in the Columbia Plateau of North America / Eugene S. Hunn; title: Fire technology and resource management in aboriginal North America and Australia / Henry T. Lewis; title: To have and have not : the ecology of sharing among hunter-gatherers / Richard A. Gould; title: The control of productive resources on the northwest coast of North America / Allan Richardson; title: Food-named groups among northern Paiute in North America's Great Basin / Catherine S. Fowler; title: A boundary is to cross : observations on Yolngu boundaries and permission / Nancy M. Williams; title: People with "Politicks" : management of land and personnel on Australia's Cape York peninsula / Peter Sutton, Bruce Rigsby; title: Always ask : resource use and land ownership among Pintupi aborigines of the Australian western desert / Fred R. Myers; title: Production and reproduction of key resources among the Tiwi of North Australia / Jane C. Goodale; title: A conservation ethic and environment : the Koyukon of Alaska / Richard K. Nelson; title: The unity of hunting-gathering societies / Annette Hamilton.