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Generationally-Linked Archaeology
“Living-Off-The-Land” for 4,000 Years on the Salish Sea
JONA Memoir 25
By Ed Eugene Carriere and Dale R. Croes
Generationally-Linked Archaeology: “Living-Off-The-Land” for 4,000 Years on the Salish Sea adds an innovative, easy to read, test of the authors' far-reaching Generationally-Linked Archaeology (GLA) approach, first developed with over 4,000 years of ancient Coast Salish basketry traditions (Carriere and Croes 2018), and now evaluated with Ed’s early use of 44 natural resources and evidence from over 4,000 years of hunting, fishing, and gathering from archaeological sites within 20 miles of his home. Since Ed was raised by his Great-grandmother Julia Jacobs (born 1874), they essentially “lived-off-the-land” using what anthropologists term their Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) with all the native resources to support themselves: shellfish, fish, ducks, mammals, and berry crops. Dale and Ed compare these practices with the archaeological fauna/flora analyses near his home allotment lands, including sites in the Seattle, Washington, area, for 4,000+ years. The results support their GLA basketry style linkage through time, upholding the hypothesis of cultural continuity and sustainability of Coast Salish subsistence, a process they term Generationally-Linked Ecological Knowledge (G-LEK), with similar resource use frequencies through these four millennium and two hundred generations of Coast Salish Peoples. Through Ed’s description of 44 natural resources, they provide information not preserved archaeologically: resource behaviors, capture techniques, preparation procedures, cooking, taste, and storage practices. The book is jargon-free and accessible to readers who do not necessarily have training in cultural anthropology or archaeology. Over 200 color photographs and illustrations of the 44 natural resources that Ed used and Dale’s archaeological wet and shell midden sites greatly enhance the text.
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My Ideological Battle: Confronting Social Dogma with Anthropological Op-Eds
Jona Memoir 23
By Mark C. Mansperger
Co-Edited by Darby C. Stapp and Victoria M. Boozer
A childhood on the move. Growing up with a sense of wonder. Part Economist, part Anthropologist, very much a concerned citizen with a burning desire to improve the world. Mark Mansperger attained a Ph.D. in Anthropology and found his voice. Through the years, he has written dozens of hard-hitting newspaper op-eds trying to share his insights and motivate thinking among his readers. How do societies operate; who pulls the strings; and how does the mind operate in a social context? This book is his life story, including times in Europe and Iran, infused with the dozens of columns he has written addressing contemporary issues in politics, economics, culture, society, and environment. Writing is a personal release and means to develop one’s ideas. In such, Dr. Mansperger uses economic and anthropological perspectives to inform readers of current issues in a manner that is both accessible and entertaining. The goal of Anthropology is not just to understand the world, but to make it a better place.
In this Journal of Northwest Anthropology (JONA) Memoir, we present the writings of Dr. Mark Mansperger, an anthropologist in Richland, Washington, who has written nearly 50 op-eds for the Tri-City Herald, a regional newspaper serving approximately one-half million readers in southeast Washington State. Our purpose is two-fold: first to document the anthropological contribution that Dr. Mansperger has made to public enlightenment in southeast Washington, and second to assist and inspire the current and coming generations of anthropologists to share their perspectives with the public through op-eds or the many other opinion-based avenues that exist.
JONA Memoir 23 is available on our website as an open access e-copy and is available for purchase on Amazon.com for $22.99.
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Shoshone-Paiute Reliance on Fish and Other Riparian Resources
Jona Memoir 22
By Deward E. Walker, Jr., M.J. Walker, and Pamela Graves
Edited by Darby C. Stapp, Designed by Victoria M. Boozer
The Shoshone-Paiute of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation (DVIR) are traditional fishing Tribes of the northern Great Basin at the virtual upper end of the salmon migration route through Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and into Nevada. The Tribes have been increasingly deprived of salmon by the sequence of dams constructed during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, resulting in significant cultural, dietary, and even economic losses. The Shoshone-Paiute have, in fact, been among those Tribes most affected by the reduction in fish passage due to dams, irrigation, industrialization, and other factors such that they do not have local access to salmon at this time. Because of these developments, the Shoshone-Paiute have been forced to increasingly expand their geographic range to the far reaches of their homeland and beyond in search of still existing salmon runs.
Phase I of this research reviews the published literature concerning Shoshone-Paiute fishing and documents the processes by which the Shoshone-Paiute have systematically been deprived of their fishing resource through the developments, their loss of ready accessibility to this vital resource on the DVIR, the continuing importance of fish to the Shoshone-Paiute people, and the Tribes’ claims of fishing rights to realize changes in the dams’ operation or other mitigation measures. It is clear that the right of the Shoshone-Paiute to continue fishing remains in effect despite the absence of fish runs proceeding from the Pacific to their homeland. Phase II examines three river systems in the Great Basin: the Owyhee, the Bruneau, and the Jarbidge and attempts to suggest potential traditional fishing sites and areas based on several criteria.
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JONA Memoir Series
The JONA Memoir Series offers a more thematic approach than the biannual issues, covering a range of topics relating to efforts of anthropological study in the Northwest.
Memoirs 1–6 are only available digitally.
Please contact our office if you are interested in obtaining one of these digital memoirs.
MEMOIR 21
MEMOIR 20
Memoir 18
MEMOIR 17
Memoir 15
Memoir 12
Memoir 11
Memoir 9
JONA Special Reprints
The editors of the Journal of Northwest Anthropology invited twenty-five colleagues to share their perspectives on anthropological writing and publishing in an essay format. The purpose was to collect experiences, insights, and suggestions from experienced authors to assist other professionals in writing and publishing their own research. Nineteen of those invited accepted the challenge. The group includes academic and practicing anthropologists, archaeologists, and ecologists. Collectively, the group has written or co-written more than 150 books, 150 chapters in books, and more than 1,100 articles in professional journals. The essays contain personal writing-related anecdotes and philosophies, describe the changes occurring in the publishing industry, explore the benefits that can accrue from writing, and provide tips to improve one’s writing to increase the chances of getting published.
A special reprint of JONA Vol. 40(1), Tahoma Legends discusses the relationship that two American cultures, the Indian and non-Indian, have developed to the mountain, and how each has adapted its own legends to incorporate elements of the other culture. This work presents a collection of these legends, derived from a variety of anthropological, historical, and popular sources.
The legends are discussed in the context of two different cultural settings, one that calls the mountain Tahoma, the other Mount Rainier.