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Grateful Prey
Grateful Preyuncovers the interaction between magico-religious ideology and hunting strategies among the Asinskawoiniwak, or Rock Cree, of Northern Manitoba. Brightman maintains that subsistence strategies need to be analyzed in terms of the foragers' own ethnoecological categories and postulates, both sacred and secular, a position which poses a challenge to prevailing ecological and Marxist approaches to foraging societies and strategies. A major contribution to the study of foraging societies.
The Orders of the Dreamed
The introduction by Brown and Brightman describes Nelson's career in the fur trade and explains the influences affecting his perception and understanding of Native religions. They also provide a comparative summary of Subarctic Algonquian religion, with emphasis on the beliefs and practices described by Nelson. Stan Cuthand, a Cree Anglican minister, author, and language instructor, who lived in Lac la Ronge in the 1940s, adds a commentary relating Nelson's writing to his own knowledge of Cree religion in Saskatchewan. Emma LaRoque, an author and instructor in Native Studies, presents a Native scholar's perspective on the ethics of publishing historical documents.
Ācaðōhkīwina and Ācimōwina
First published in 1980 by the Canadian Museum of Civilization, this study presents narratives from different genres of Rock Cree oral literature in northwestern Manitoba together with interpretive and comparative commentary. The collection comprises narratives of the trickster-transformer Wisahkicahk, animal-human characters, spirit guardians, the wihtikow or cannibal monster, humorous experiences, sorcery, and early encounters with Catholicism.
Dangerous Spirits
An examination of the role of windigo narratives among the Algonquian peoples of North American and how those narratives were influenced through colonialism.
"Man--with Variations"
"I believe the most interesting human beings, so far as talk is concerned, are anthropologists, farmers, prostitutes, psychiatrists, and the occasional bartender." So wrote Joseph Mitchell, the renowned chronicler of New York City's odder citizens. In this series of articles, first published in the now defunct New York World-Telegram, Mitchell weaves together interviews with Franz Boas and his students and colleagues to produce his own compelling set of reflections on the human condition. This is a unique take on a formative period in American anthropology, and will be required reading for anyone interested in the history of the discipline."
Logics of History
While social scientists and historians have been exchanging ideas for a long time, they have never developed a proper dialogue about social theory. William H. Sewell Jr. observes that on questions of theory the communication has been mostly one way: from social science to history. Logics of History argues that both history and the social sciences have something crucial to offer each other. While historians do not think of themselves as theorists, they know something social scientists do not: how to think about the temporalities of social life. On the other hand, while social scientists’ treatments of temporality are usually clumsy, their theoretical sophistication and penchant for structur...
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas
Publisher description: The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume II: Mesoamerica (Part One), gives a comprehensive and authoritative overview of all the important native civilizations of the Mesoamerican area, beginning with archaeological discussions of paleoindian, archaic and preclassic societies and continuing to the present. Fully illustrated and engagingly written, the book is divided into sections that discuss the native cultures of Mesoamerica before and after their first contact with the Europeans. The various chapters balance theoretical points of view as they trace the cultural history and evolutionary development of such groups as the Olmec, the Maya, th...
Converging on Culture
This text brings together scholars from theological perspectives to analyse theories cultural movements. The first part examines theoretical relationships between theology and cultural studies and the second consists of theological analyses.
The Theoretical Foundation of Dendritic Function
This collection of fifteen previously published papers, some of them not widely available, have been carefully chosen and annotated by Rall's colleagues and other leading neuroscientists.
Essential Song
Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music is a ground-breaking study of Northern Cree traditional and contemporary music. Author Lynn Whidden is an associate professor of Native Studies and Music at Brandon University. The Cree of Northern Manitoba and Quebec are the focus of her study that dates from 1970 to 2000. The introduction profiles the Cree contributors to the study. These men include William Jack, George Pepabano, Robert Potts, Abraham Martinhunter, Samson Lameboy, and Joseph Rupert. Their contributions are significant because of their knowledge of Cree hunting songs and also because the CD included with the book contains their specific songs. The chapters cover song and...
