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#225076 - 06/02/11 10:29 PM Indigenous people tracking manual
dweste Offline
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I am looking for English language books that detail how indigenous peoples track men and animals - the more detailed and specific about the methods, the better.

So far, I have what Tom Brown, Jr. says is the Lipan Apache way.

Do you know of any others?

Thanks.

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#225086 - 06/03/11 01:44 AM Re: Indigenous people tracking manual [Re: dweste]
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I don't know of any specific Indigenous manuals, however "The SAS Guide to Tracking" is a decent book. Although I don't own the book, I have had the opportunity to read through many parts of it on occasion at a friend's home.

The book is probably available through Amazon.com.
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#225094 - 06/03/11 09:50 AM Re: Indigenous people tracking manual [Re: Teslinhiker]
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Oddly enough, the anthropological literature is fairly silent on the specifics of tracking; I really can't think of any decent references, although surely some must exist somewhere.

I am afraid I can only recommend Tracking: A Blueprint for Learning How, by Jack Kearney. "La Migra" (Border Patrol) is probably not what you had in mind when you specified indigenous groups, but I'll bet the basic skills are cultural universals and require intimate knowledge of the local environment in order to detect disturbance.

In few other pursuits does Yogi Berra's famous dictum, "You can observe a lot just by looking" apply more aptly than to tracking. Another cliche - practice makes perfect.
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#225097 - 06/03/11 10:30 AM Re: Indigenous people tracking manual [Re: hikermor]
dweste Offline
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Here's one:

Pat Lowe, Hunters and Trackers of the Australian Desert
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=BsOqf9lakFcC

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#225156 - 06/03/11 10:40 PM Re: Indigenous people tracking manual [Re: dweste]
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#225178 - 06/04/11 12:33 PM Re: Indigenous people tracking manual [Re: hikermor]
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Originally Posted By: hikermor
Oddly enough, the anthropological literature is fairly silent on the specifics of tracking; I really can't think of any decent references, although surely some must exist somewhere.

I am afraid I can only recommend Tracking: A Blueprint for Learning How, by Jack Kearney. "La Migra" (Border Patrol) is probably not what you had in mind when you specified indigenous groups, but I'll bet the basic skills are cultural universals and require intimate knowledge of the local environment in order to detect disturbance.

In few other pursuits does Yogi Berra's famous dictum, "You can observe a lot just by looking" apply more aptly than to tracking. Another cliche - practice makes perfect.


+1 on Kearney. I had to find a copy through a used bookseller. Misquote: "There ain't no shortcut: you have to practice."
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#225241 - 06/05/11 02:15 PM Re: Indigenous people tracking manual [Re: dweste]
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#225250 - 06/05/11 05:01 PM Re: Indigenous people tracking manual [Re: dweste]
Outdoor_Quest Offline
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Check out the web site: www.utstrackingservices.com.

They use the Kearney book in their instruction/courses.

UTS has a very solid method.

Blake
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#225253 - 06/05/11 05:32 PM Re: Indigenous people tracking manual [Re: dweste]
dweste Offline
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Thanks for the referrals to contemporary tracking resources.

My special interest in this thread is to find reliable sources about how indigenous peoples tracked men and animals.

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#225325 - 06/06/11 03:09 PM Re: Indigenous people tracking manual [Re: dweste]
dweste Offline
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I am loooking forward to Liebenberg's book in which he proposes tracking as a possible origin for science, and supposedly details Kalahari tracker technique. Supposedly there are some scientific papers by Stander about indigenous tracking, but I have not yet located them.


Edited by dweste (06/06/11 03:10 PM)

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