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Methods/Theory

Shepard Krech III. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History. New York: W. W. Norton. 1999. Pp. 318. $27.95.

In this provocative study, the anthropologist Shepard Krech III seeks "to determine the extent to which Indians were ecologists and conservationists (as is commonly understood today)" (p. 212). As Krech has phrased the question, the answer can only be negative. In a book impressively grounded in anthropological and historical literature on Indian resource use, Krech argues that Indians were poor conservationists because, among other reasons, their local economies took little account of larger environments, and their hunting cultures encouraged as well as restrained the harvesting of game. The behavior of Indian hunters bore little resemblance to the culturally idealized image of the "ecological Indian," an image that Krech roundly (and rightly) criticizes as "dehumanizing" (p. 26). . . .

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