Merchant on Animals into Resources


focus: what is nature and how is it manifest?


“To see nature as active is to recognize its formative role over geologic and historical time.” identity as layers of description; time as layered


“nature & culture seen as truly interactive

animal and plant interdependence.”
“the habitat is the locus of the reproduct

ive potential of the population.”
nature as increasingly controlled by culture
“Animals to New England’s Indians were spiritual equals in their homeland.” (29)


Water has sculpted the rocks of New England in dramatically influential ways:

 

Habitat

Maps
Europeans & Animals
beaver
fashion

Animal ancestors
Abenake subsistence patters & collapse
Production & reproduction
Transcendence
Denouement
Colonial degradation of Animals
Ecological repercussions