By Kaitlyn Moore Chandler,Wendi Field Murray,María Nieves Zedeño,Samrat Miller Clements,Robert James
This publication integrates released and archival resources overlaying archaeology, ethnohistory, historic ethnography, folklore, and interviews with elders from the Blackfoot, Assiniboine, Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, and Crow groups to discover how relationships among humans and birds are positioned in modern perform, and what has fostered its cultural patience. local ideas of ecological and cosmological wisdom are introduced into concentration to spotlight particular ideals, practices, and issues linked to person chicken species, chicken components, chook gadgets, the ordinary and cultural landscapes that birds and folks cohabit, and the way forward for this historical alliance.
Detailed descriptions severe to ethnohistorians and ethnobiologists are observed by way of thirty-four colour pictures. a distinct contribution, The Winged expands our knowing of units of interrelated dependencies or entanglements among chook and human brokers, and it steps past conventional medical and anthropological differences among people and animals to bare the difficult and eminently social personality of those interactions.
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