Jan Peter Laurens Loovers

Reading Life with Gwich'in

An Educational Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is based upon more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork and personal experiences with the Teet¿'it Gwich'in community in northern Canada. The author provides insight into Gwich'in understandings of life as well as into historical and political processes that have taken place in the North.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781032082462
• ISBN-10: 1032082461
• Artikelnr.: 62152498

Autorenporträt

Jan Peter Laurens Loovers (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is Project Curator for the Arctic Exhibition at The British Museum (UK) and Honorary Research Fellow at University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK).

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: INTRODUCTION TO AN EDUCATIONAL APPROACH. 1 Ecology, education,
collaboration. 2 Trails to knowing. PART II: A SENTIENT HISTORY. 3 A
growing world. 4 McDonald's legacy, Gwich'in literacy. 5 Governing a land
of resources. PART III: LOSING ELDERS, KEEPING LIFE GOING. 6 Education and
language. 7 The healing land. PART IV: LIFE ON THE LAND. 8 Knowing wood. 9
Reading places and trails.