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At the desert's green edge : an ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima

Title: At the desert's green edge : an ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima / Amadeo M. Rea ; with a foreword by Gary Paul Nabhan ; sumi-e illustrations by Takashi Ijichi.
Author: Rea, Amadeo M.
Publication: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Description

xxviii, 430 pages : illustrations, maps; 32 cm

Summary

"The Akimel O'odham, or Pima Indians, of the northern Sonoran Desert continue to make their home along Arizona's Gila River despite the alarming degradation of their habitat that has occurred over the past century. The oldest living Pimas can recall a lush riparian ecosystem and still recite more than two hundred names for plants in their environment, but they are the last generation of Akimel O'odham who grew up subsisting on cultivated native crops or wild-foraged plants.".
"Ethnobiologist Amadeo M. Rea has written the first complete ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima and has done so from the perspective of the Pimas themselves. At the Desert's Green Edge weaves the Pima view of the plants found in their environment with memories of their own history and culture, creating a monumental testament to their traditions and way of life.".
"At the Desert's Green Edge is an archive of otherwise unavailable plant lore that will become a benchmark for botanists and anthropologists. Enhanced by more than one hundred brush paintings of plants, it is written to be useful to nonspecialists and to be a resource for the Pimas regarding their former lifeways."--BOOK JACKET.

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Contents

Foreword / Gary Paul Nabhan -- Pt. 1. The Pima and Their Country. 1. The Gila Pima. 2. Native Consultants. 3. Historic Pima Habitats. 4. The Pima Cultural Ecosystem. 5. A People without a River. 6. Modern Gila Pima Habitats. 7. A Dietary Reconstruction. 8. Words for Mapping the Natural World -- Pt. 2. Gila Pima Plants -- Plan of the Folk Generics (Biological Species Accounts). Group A. Shuudagi ch-ed Ha'ichu Vuushdag: Plants Growing in or on the Water. Group B. Akimel ch-ed Ha'ichu Chuuchim: Plants Standing in the River, Emergents. Group C. Vashai: Grasses, Grassy Plants, Forage Plants, Hay. Group D. Sha'i: Bushes. Group E. U'us Chuuchim: Trees. Group F. Iivagi: Eaten Greens. Group G. Covert Category: Wild Annuals. Group H. Covert Category: Cactuslike Plants. Group I. E'es : Crops, Planted Things. Group J. Ha'ichu Iibdag: Planted Fruit Trees. Group K. Category Unknown: Miscellaneous Unaffiliated Plants.
Group L. Unassigned Organisms: Not Ha'ichu Vuushdag, Things That Grow Up. A. The Gila Pima Ethnobotanical Lexicon -- B. Unidentified Gila Pima Folk Plant Taxa -- C. Scientific Names of Animals Mentioned in Text -- D. Folk Taxonomic Adjustments in a Changing Biotic Environment.

ISBN

0816515409 (acid-free)

LCCN

97004577

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