Robert Jarvenpa

Before the Roads, Before the Mines

Denesuliné Memories, Narratives, and the Legacy of a Northern Hunting Society

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Produktbeschreibung

Anthropologist Robert Jarvenpa examines how the energy and extraction industries in Canada’s subarctic north threatens destruction of traditional southern Denesüiné cultural practices, land, and sovereignty near the Churchill River headwaters in northern Saskatchewan.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781496239747
• ISBN-10: 1496239741
• Artikelnr.: 69824489

Autorenporträt

Robert Jarvenpa is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Circumpolar Lives and Livelihood: A Comparative Ethnoarchaeology of Gender and Subsistence (with Hetty Jo Brumbach) (Nebraska, 2006) and Declared Defective: Native Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow (Nebraska, 2018). 

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Timeline of Global and Local Events
Preface: Land of No Winter
Introduction: Black Rock, Thunder Beings, and Demons
1. In the Beginning
2. The Hunting Life or Coming of Age in the Bush
3. Hardship
4. Crees Among Us
5. The Dogs
6. Traders and the Trading Frontier
7. Out of the Inferno
8. The Bushman Cometh
9. Savage Storm
Conclusion: Bridging the Past and the Present
Notes
Bibliography
Appendices
Index