Recurrence of Bear Restoration Symbolism:

• Main Authors: Minusinsk Basin Evenki, Basin-plateau Ute, Lynda D. Mcneil
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Evenki (Southern Siberia; recurrence of symbolic representations; spring revival rites; Ute Indian (North America; Evenki; Indian; Siberia
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.529.3755; http://spot.colorado.edu/~lmcneil/JOCC_008_01-02_05-McNeil.pdf

By combining ethnographic and evolutionary psychological approaches, this paper compares adaptive strategies of two groups of hunter-gatherers colonizing marginal environments, one in Southern Siberia (Minusinsk Basin) and the other in North America (Great Basin and Colorado Plateau). Th e biologica...