{"product_id":"indians-animals-and-the-fur-trade-a-critique-of-keepers-of-the-game-9780820331508","title":"Indians, Animals, and the Fur Trade: A Critique of Keepers of the Game","description":"Exploring the motivations of Indians involved in the fur trade, the contributors to this volume challenge the spiritualist interpretation set forth by Calvin Martin in \u003ci\u003eKeepers of the Game\u003c\/i\u003e, which dismisses the lure of European goods--the power and leisure that firearms and other tools afforded the Indians--and instead attributes the Indians' willingness to overkill wildlife to the epidemics that decimated their ranks, that not only shattered their religious bonds with game but also unleashed a furious revenge against the animals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shepard Krech  III\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.49d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820331508\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSHEPARD KRECH III is a professor of anthropology and director of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University. He is a past president of the American Society for Ethnohistory and has been a fellow and trustee of the National Humanities Center. His many books include \u003ci\u003eThe Ecological Indian\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of World Environmental History\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40195946774643,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":25.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_266c186f-bf87-4872-a3b1-6a4d50677baf.jpg?v=1655992628","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/indians-animals-and-the-fur-trade-a-critique-of-keepers-of-the-game-9780820331508","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}