Shells on a Desert Shore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shells on a Desert Shore write by Cathy Moser Marlett. This book was released on 2014-06-12. Shells on a Desert Shore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Mexico’s western Sonoran Desert along the Gulf of California is a place made extraordinary by the desert solitude, the dynamic sea, and the people who live there—the Seris. Central to the lives of these people are the sea and its shores. Shells on a Desert Shore describes the Seri knowledge of mollusks and includes names, folklore, history, uses, and much more. Cathy Moser Marlett’s research of several decades, conducted in the Seri language, builds on work begun in 1951 by her parents, Edward and Becky Moser. The language, spoken by fewer than a thousand people today, is considered endangered. Marlett presents what she has learned from Seri consultants over recent decades and also draws from her own childhood experiences while living in a Seri village. The information from the people who had lived as hunter-gatherers provides a window into a lifestyle no longer recalled from personal experience by most Seris today—and perhaps a window into the lives of other peoples who made the Gulf’s shores their home. The book offers a wealth of information about Seri history, as well as species accounts of more than 150 mollusks from the Seri area on the central Gulf coast. Chapters describe how the people ate mollusks or used them medicinally, how the mollusks were named, and how their shells were used. The author provides several hundred detailed drawings and photographs, many of them archival. Shells on a Desert Shore is a fresh, original presentation of a significant part of the Seri way of life. Unique because it is written from the perspective of a participant in the Seri culture, the book will stand as a definitive, irreplaceable work in ethnography, a time capsule of the Seri people and their connection to the sea.
American Renaissance
American Renaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Renaissance write by F. O. Matthiessen. This book was released on 1968-12-31. American Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
Ethnobiology of Corals and Coral Reefs
Ethnobiology of Corals and Coral Reefs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ethnobiology of Corals and Coral Reefs write by Nemer Narchi. This book was released on 2015-12-24. Ethnobiology of Corals and Coral Reefs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the ethnobiology of corals by examining the various ways in which humans, past and present, have exploited and taken care of coral and coralline habitats. This book will bring the educated general audience closer to corals by exploring the various circumstances of human-coral coexistence by providing scientifically sound and jargon-free perspectives and experiences from across the globe. Corals are a vital part of the marine environment since they promote and sustain marine and global biodiversity while providing numerous other environmental and cultural services. Countless valuable coral conservation efforts are published in academic and general audience venues on a daily basis. However relevant, few of these reports show a direct, deeper understanding of the intimate relationship between people and corals throughout the world’s societies. Ethnobiology of Corals and Coral Reefs establishes an intimate bond between the audience and the wonder of corals and their importance to humankind.
Coastal Foragers of the Gran Desierto
Coastal Foragers of the Gran Desierto - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coastal Foragers of the Gran Desierto write by Douglas R. Mitchell. This book was released on 2024. Coastal Foragers of the Gran Desierto available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The result of nearly 20 years of interdisciplinary research, this volume contributes to the archaeological and paleoenvironmental knowledge of an important but lightly investigated, hyperarid coastline at the heart of the Sonoran Desert. Focused on the coast near Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico, it examines the diverse groups occupying the coast for salt, abundant food sources, and shells for ornament manufacturing"--
A General Sketch of the History of Persia
A General Sketch of the History of Persia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A General Sketch of the History of Persia write by Sir Clements Robert Markham. This book was released on 1874. A General Sketch of the History of Persia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
