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Book Reviews their foods into the Pacific, for example, is included rather inexplicably under the heading of the Columbian Exchange (which happened centuries later), and he argues that the Western Hemisphere lacked "good-quality protein" (p. 156), which would have been news to the bison hunters of the plains and prairies and the salmon fishers of the northwest coast. Kiple also claims that hunter-gatherers "harvested plant and animal foods . . . without attempting to control [their] life cycles" and that many of their activities simplified ecosystems (p. 64), when in fact much of the current scholarship on indigenous landmanagement practices suggests that such societies had subtle but profound methods of manipulating ecological systems that often increased biodiversity. This is not a matter of political correctness. Rather, it is a matter of both factual accuracy and of writing global history that challenges, rather than reifies, the narratives to which we are accustomed. At times, Kiple succeeds in this; he interrogates food group charts ("who is supposed to benefit from such nutritional guidance?" he asks on page 262), and he offers a fascinating discussion of nineteenth-century debates over menarche and nutrition as they related to discourses on race, class, and
Journal of World History – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Aug 1, 2008
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