Book ID: CBB797794499

Ecology and Ethnogenesis: An Environmental History of the Wind River Shoshones, 1000–1868 (2019)

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Hodge, Adam R. (Author)


University of Nebraska Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 354
Language: English

In Ecology and Ethnogenesis Adam R. Hodge argues that the Eastern Shoshone tribe, now located on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, underwent a process of ethnogenesis through cultural attachment to its physical environment that proved integral to its survival and existence. He explores the intersection of environmental, indigenous, and gender history to illuminate the historic roots of the Eastern Shoshone bands that inhabited the intermountain West during the nineteenth century. Hodge presents an impressive longue durée narrative of Eastern Shoshone history from roughly 1000 CE to 1868, analyzing the major developments that influenced Shoshone culture and identity. Geographically spanning the Great Basin, Rocky Mountain, Columbia Plateau, and Great Plains regions, Ecology and Ethnogenesis engages environmental history to explore the synergistic relationship between the subsistence methods of indigenous people and the lands that they inhabited prior to the reservation era. In examining that history, Hodge treats Shoshones, other Native peoples, and Euroamericans as agents who, through their use of the environment, were major components of much broader ecosystems. The story of the Eastern Shoshones over eight hundred years is an epic story of ecological transformation, human agency, and cultural adaptation.Ecology and Ethnogenesis is a major contribution to environmental history, ethnohistory, and Native American history. It explores Eastern Shoshone ethnogenesis based on interdisciplinary research in history, archaeology, anthropology, and the natural sciences in devoting more attention to the dynamic and often traumatic history of “precontact” Native America and to how the deeper past profoundly influenced the “postcontact” era.

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Review William R Swagerty (2020) Review of "Ecology and Ethnogenesis: An Environmental History of the Wind River Shoshones, 1000–1868". Journal of American History (pp. 453-454). unapi

Review Jon T. Coleman (2021) Review of "Ecology and Ethnogenesis: An Environmental History of the Wind River Shoshones, 1000–1868". American Historical Review (pp. 302-303). unapi

Review Erik Reardon (October 2019) Review of "Ecology and Ethnogenesis: An Environmental History of the Wind River Shoshones, 1000–1868". Environmental History (pp. 823-825). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
DeLucia, Christine
Dearen, Patrick
Shih, Ashanti
Rosalyn LaPier
Marino, William
Cameron Blevins
Concepts
Environmental history
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
American Indians; Native Americans; First Nations of the Americas
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Colonialism
Historiography
Time Periods
19th century
Modern
20th century
Early modern
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Western states (U.S.)
Hawaii (U.S.)
New Mexico (U.S.)
Pecos River
South Carolina (U.S.)
Institutions
United States Postal Service (USPS)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Institute of Health (U.S.)
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