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Author : Margaret Seguin
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772822618
An archival and ethnographic account of Coast Tsimshian feast traditions with emphasis on their role as forms of discourse shaped by idiosyncratic textual conventions.
Author : Margaret Seguin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:299799848
Author : Margaret Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Chimmesyan Indians
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040135407
Describes the feast tradition of the Coast Tsimshian people based on fieldwork in Hartley Bay, BC. and on material from archival sources and previously published accounts. Includes a discussion of the cultural meaning of the traditional feast complex, a brief summary of feasting patterns over the last fifty years and a description of current feasts.
Author : Nora Dauenhauer,Richard Dauenhauer
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0295968508
A compendium of Tlingit oratory recorded in performance, featuring Tlingit texts with facing English translations and detailed annotations; photographs of the orators and the settings in which the speeches were delivered; and biographies of the elders. Most speeches were recorded on Canada's Northwest Coast, primarily in British Columbia, between 1968 and 1988, but two date from 1899. Includes references and glossary.
Author : Christopher F. Roth
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295989235
The Tsimshian people of coastal British Columbia use a system of hereditary name-titles in which names are treated as objects of inheritable wealth. Human agency and social status reside in names rather than in the individuals who hold these names, and the politics of succession associated with names and name-taking rituals have been, and continue to be, at the center of Tsimshian life. Becoming Tsimshian examines the way in which names link members of a lineage to a past and to the places where that past unfolded. At traditional potlatch feasts, for example, collective social and symbolic behavior �gives the person to the name.� Oral histories recounted at a potlatch describe the origins of the name, of the house lineage, and of the lineage's rights to territories, resources, and heraldic privileges. This ownership is renewed and recognized by successive generations, and the historical relationship to the land is remembered and recounted in the lineage's chronicles, or adawx. In investigating the different dimensions of the Tsimshian naming system, Christopher F. Roth draws extensively on recent literature, archival reference, and elders in Tsimshian communities. Becoming Tsimshian, which covers important themes in linguistic and cultural anthropology and ethnic studies, will be of great value to scholars in Native American studies and Northwest Coast anthropology, as well as in linguistics.
Author : Charles R. Menzies
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780803207356
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource Management examines how traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is taught and practiced today among Native communities. Of special interest is the complex relationship between indigenous ecological practices and other ways of interacting with the environment, particularly regional and national programs of natural resource management. Focusing primarily on the northwest coast of North America, scholars look at the challenges and opportunities confronting the local practice of indigenous ecological knowledge in a range of communities, including the Tsimshian, the Nisga’a, the Tlingit, the Gitksan, the Kwagult, the Sto:lo, and the northern Dene in the Yukon. The experts consider how traditional knowledge is taught and learned and address the cultural importance of different subsistence practices using natural elements such as seaweed (Gitga’a), pine mushrooms (Tsimshian), and salmon (Tlingit). Several contributors discuss the extent to which national and regional programs of resource management need to include models of TEK in their planning and execution. This volume highlights the different ways of seeing and engaging with the natural world and underscores the need to acknowledge and honor the ways that indigenous peoples have done so for generations.
Author : Peggy Brock
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780774820073
First-hand accounts of Indigenous people's encounters with colonialism are rare. A daily diary that extends over fifty years is unparalleled. Based on a transcription of Arthur Wellington Clah's diaries, this book offers a riveting account of a Tsimshian man who moved in both colonial and Aboriginal worlds. From his birth in 1831 to his death in 1916, Clah witnessed profound change: the arrival of traders, missionaries, and miners, and the establishment of industrial fisheries, wage labour, and reserves. His many voyages � physical, cultural, and spiritual � provide an unprecedented Aboriginal perspective on colonial relationships on the Pacific Northwest Coast.
Author : Sergei Kan,Steve Henrikson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803240568
"An edited volume of interdisciplinary, collaborative research on Tlingit culture, language, and history"--
Author : Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405137508
In Death, Mourning, and Burial, an indispensable introduction to the anthropology of death, readers will find a rich selection of some of the finest ethnographic work on this fascinating topic. Comprised of six sections that mirror the social trajectory of death: conceptualizations of death; death and dying; uncommon death; grief and mourning; mortuary rituals; and remembrance and regeneration Includes canonical readings as well as recent studies on topics such as organ donation and cannibalism Designed for anyone concerned with issues of death and dying, as well as: violence, terrorism, war, state terror, organ theft, and mortuary rituals Serves as a text for anthropology classes, as well as providing a genuinely cross-cultural perspective to all those studying death and dying
Author : Elizabeth Edwards,Chris Gosden,Ruth Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000190069
Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings in both colonial and postcolonial relationships. It challenges the privileged position of the sense of vision in the analysis of material culture. Contributors argue that vision can only be understood in relation to the other senses. In this they present another challenge to the assumed western five-sense model, and show how our understanding of material culture in both historical and contemporary contexts might be reconfigured if we consider the role of smell, taste, touch and sound, as well as sight, in making meanings about objects.
Author : William Beynon
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 077480744X
Contains 200 pages from Beynon's four-notebook account of the five days of potlatches and totem pole raisings he attended at the Gitksan village of Gitsegulka in 1945. Long recognized as one of the most significant written records of Northwest coast potlatching, his account includes detailed and often verbatim information about the events he witnessed, along with his sketches of costumes and pole- raising apparatus. The editors have added photographs, a comprehensive introduction, a timeline of key events in Gitksan history, and several appendices listing names, places, and terms. Canadian card order number: C99-911250-3. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Canadian Anthropology Society. Meeting
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 080207703X
Until now few people have been aware of the prevalence of belief in some form of rebirth or reincarnation among North American native peoples. This collection of essays by anthropologists and one psychiatrist examines this concept among native American societies, from near the time of contact until the present day. Amerindian Rebirth opens with a foreword by Gananath Obeyesekere that contrasts North American and Hindu/Buddhist/Jain beliefs. The introduction gives an overview, and the first chapter summarizes the context, distribution, and variety of recorded belief. All the papers chronicle some aspect of rebirth belief in a number of different cultures. Essays cover such topics as seventeenth-century Huron eschatology, Winnebago ideology, varying forms of Inuit belief, and concepts of rebirth found among subarctic natives and Northwest Coast peoples. The closing chapters address the genesis and anthropological study of Amerindian reincarnation. In addition, the possibility of evidence for the actuality of rebirth is addressed. Amerindian Rebirth will further our understanding of concepts of self-identity, kinship, religion, cosmology, resiliency, and change among native North American peoples
Author : Richard Daly
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774851251
For the Gitksan and Witsuwit’en peoples of northwest British Columbia, the land is invested with meaning that goes beyond simple notions of property or sustenance. Considered both a food box and a storage box of history and wealth, the land plays a central role in their culture, survival, history, and identity. In Our Box Was Full, Richard Daly explores the centrality of this notion in the determination of Aboriginal rights with particular reference to the landmark Delgamuukw case that occupied the British Columbia courts from 1987 to 1997. Called as an expert witness for the Aboriginal plaintiffs, Daly, an anthropologist, was charged with helping the Gitksan and Witsutwit’en to "prove they existed," and to make the case for Aboriginal self-governance. In order to do this, Daly spent several years documenting their institutions, system of production and exchange, dispute settlement, and proprietorship before Pax Britannica and colonization. His conclusions, which were originally rejected by Justice MacEachern, were that the plaintiffs continue to live out their rich and complex heritage today albeit under very different conditions from those of either the pre-contact or fur trade eras. Our Box Was Full provides fascinating insight into the Delgamuukw case and sheds much-needed light on the role of anthropology in Aboriginal rights litigation. A rich, compassionate, and original ethnographic study, the book situates the plaintiff peoples within the field of forager studies, and emphasizes the kinship and gift exchange features that pervade these societies even today. It will find an eager audience among scholars and students of anthropology, Native studies, law, and history.
Author : Rosalind Morris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429715891
Bringing together the insights of literary criticism, film theory, history, and anthropology, this book explores the tradition of ethnographic film on the Northwest Coast and its relationship to the ethnography of the area. Rosalind Morris takes account of these films, organizing her discussions around a series of detailed readings and viewings tha
Author : Robert Galois
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774840019
Colnett's journal of this expedition is published here for the first time. Editor Robert Galois provides extensive annotations, along with an introductory essay addressing the geopolitical context of the voyage and the intellectual background that shaped the writing of the journal. Galois supplements Colnett's writings with extracts from a second journal -- also previously unpublished -- by Andrew Bracey Taylor, third mate on one of the ships under Colnett's command. Also included are illustrations from Colnett's journals and a variety of maps, both contemporary and historical.