Research Catalog

Title

A time for burning / by Henry T. Lewis.

Author

Lewis, Henry T.

Publication

Edmonton, Alta., Canada : Boreal Institute for Northern Studies, University of Alberta, [1982]

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Description

62 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

Study of burning practices of the native people of northern Alberta. Complements the film "Fires of Spring."

Series Statement

Occassional publication / Boreal Institute for Northern Studies, The University of Alberta, 0068-0303 ; no. 17

Uniform Title

Occasional publication (Boreal Institute for Northern Studies) no. 17.

Subject

• Grassland fires > Alberta
• Indians of North America > Alberta
• Indians of North America > Alberta > Economic conditions
• Indians of North America > Hunting > Alberta

Note

• "November 1982."

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 55-62.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Fire studies in anthropology -- Hunter-gatherers and environment -- Hunter-gatherers and the "Agricultural Revolution" -- Man-made fires and the "Strategy of ecosystem development" -- The boreal forest -- Indians of Northern Alberta -- Field interviews -- The patterns of Indian burning -- Meadows -- Observed vegetational changes -- Sloughs and stream courses -- Making a meadow -- Deadfall-windfall forests -- Firewood -- Improving settlement areas and campsites -- Making and maintaining trail -- Berry patches -- Marshes and lakeshores -- Other reasons and places for burning -- Signal fires -- The reintroduction of burning

ISBN

0919058248 (pbk.) :

LCCN

^^^83142872^

OCLC

9638842

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library