Forgotten Fires

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"A common stereotype about American Indians is that for centuries they lived in static harmony with nature in a pristine wilderness that remained unchanged until European colonization. Omer C. Stewart was one of the first anthropologists to recognize that Native Americans made significant impact across a wide range of environments. Most important, they regularly used fire to manage plant communities and associated animal species through varied and localized habitat burning. In Forgotten Fires, editors Henry T. Lewis and M. Kat Anderson present Stewart's original research and insights, presented in the 1950s yet still provocative today."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Ecology,  Fire use,  Indians of North America,  Traditional farming,  Fire ecology,  Indigenous peoples,  Shifting cultivation,  Agriculture,  Indians of north america, agriculture,  Ethnoecology,  Indiens d'Amérique,  Usage du feu,  Indiens,  Autochtones,  Écologie,  Écologie des feux,  Agriculture itinérante,  Agriculture traditionnelle,  American Indians