Singing the turtles to sea : the Comcáac (Seri) art and science of reptiles /
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Organisms and environments ;
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Table of Contents:
- Key to Pronunciation of Words in Cmique litom
- Foreword / Harry W. Greene
- 1. Islands of Uniqueness: Endangered Cultural Knowledge of Endemic Creatures
- 2. Mapping the Comcaac Sense of Place: Seri Homelands and Reptilian Habitats
- 3. The Shape of Reptilian Worlds: Island Biogeography and the Herpetofauna of the Sea of Cortes Region
- 4. Naming the Menagerie: How to Sort One Snake from Another
- 5. Reptiles as Resources, Curses, and Cures: How the Comcaac Recognize Beauty, Utility, and Danger
- 6. What Eats from the Turtle's Shell, What the Turtle Eats: Comcaac Perceptions of Local Ecological Interactions
- 7. The Comcaac as Conservationists: Practicing What They Preach, and Benefiting from Alliances
- 8. The Historic Decline and Recent Revival of Traditional Ecological Knowledge
- 9. Accounts of Reptiles Known by the Comcaac
- App. Reptile Specimen Records from the Sonoran Coast and Nearby Islands.