Native Americans in the Fur Trade and Wildlife Depletion

Kay, Jeanne

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“…They also emphasize how Indian participation and cultural choices shaped the environmental outcomes (Ray 1974;Bishop 1974;Tanner 1979;White 1983;Kay 1985). As a counter to functionalist market explanations, Calvin Martin (1978) proposed an ideational explanation for the discrepancy between conservation belief and practice, arguing that Indians came to blame animal spirits for epidemic diseases decimating their villages, and therefore felt justified in waging war on animals for breaching their reciprocal obligation.…”

Section: Indians and Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

American Indian Environmental Relations

Lewis

2010

A Companion to American Environmental History

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Section: Indians and Environmentsmentioning

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American Indian Environmental Relations

Lewis

2010

A Companion to American Environmental History

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“…But this attitude to nonhuman living things is not the same as attributing rights and obligations to them, or as seeing them as falling under the aegis of a suprapersonal conception of justice (Kay 1985). But this attitude to nonhuman living things is not the same as attributing rights and obligations to them, or as seeing them as falling under the aegis of a suprapersonal conception of justice (Kay 1985).…”

Section: Home and Moralitymentioning

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A View of Geography

Tuan¹

1991

Geographical Review

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. American Geographical Society is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Geographical Review. ABSTRACT.What is the intellectual character and core of geography? An answer, from a broadly humanist viewpoint, that may satisfy the genuinely curious and literate public lies in the definition of the field as the study of the earth as the home of people. Home is the key, unifying word for all the principal subdivisions of geography, because home, in the large sense, is physical, economic, psychological, and moral; it is the whole physical earth and a specific neighborhood; it is constraint and freedom-place, location, and space.

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“…It is part of a broad world view that sees a variety of human events, such as war and disease, acting in similar fashion. Biblical nature to be sure, has other qualities, including some that have little to do with human beings (Kay 1988). Lynn White's supporters and critics have based their "despotism"and "stewardship'' arguments on a handful of biblical verses taken out of context, typically as only part of panoramic generalizations about nature in Christian or even Western thought.…”

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“…White's critics counter that t h e Bible's model of environmental conservation is not despotism over nature, but stewardship. Tuan (1970), Hughes (1975) and I (Kay 1985a, b;1988;Kay and Brown 1985) argue that this debate over biblical environmental despotism or stewardship is in any case simplistic; religious beliefs are enormously complex, and their influence in environmental impact must b e demonstrate d , not assumed.…”

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“…The Bible is an extensive source of ancient geographical lore (Stadelmann 1970). Extension of biblical beliefs within biblical, Christian and Jewish societies were explored by Wright (1925), Kimble (1938), Glacken (1967), Tuan (1968), Jackson (1978), Doughty (1981), Har-El (1983), Kark (1983), Woodward (1985), and Kay (1988). This work may also be seen as a subset of historical geography, with i t s analysis of primary sources to infer past societies' attitudes towards nature, although such work typically investigates periods within a century or two of our own.…”

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Human Dominion over Nature in the Hebrew Bible

Kay¹

1989

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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What should be our society's relationship with nature? What are the intellectual causes of the current environmental crisis? These “great questions”of environmental studies are essentially humanistic inquiries into ethics and values. Humanists have often debated these questions in terms of Christian and Jewish traditions. One school of thought in particular holds the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) responsible for fostering despotic ideas towards nature. This paper demonstrates that the Bible's most persistent environmental message is that God confers human dominion over nature to righteous or faithful people, whereas God punishes transgressors with natural disasters. Recent advances in studies of the Bible as literature reveal ways to interpret the theme of human dominion over nature, with the resulting evolution of that concept throughout the books of the Bible. The biblical notions of natural justice and righteous individuals in harmony with animals find current expression in the modern environmentalist movement. A comparison of contemporary American personal beliefs with modern geography suggests further research on the disparity of a secular discipline addressing a largely religious American public.

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Native Americans in the Fur Trade and Wildlife Depletion

Cited by 8 publications

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American Indian Environmental Relations

A View of Geography

Human Dominion over Nature in the Hebrew Bible

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