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Hunters in the Barrens
The Naskapi on the Edge of the White Man's World
Georg Henriksenâ€
With a foreword by Robert Paine
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134 pages, 31 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-84545-950-5 25% OFF! $24.95/£17.00 $18.71/£12.75 Pb Published (December 2010)
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Reviews
“Valuable as an example of the anthropology of development and modernization prevalent in northern Canada at the time, the book transcends this genre in the acuity of its ethnographic analysis and beautifully captures a moment – Henriksen began fieldwork in 1966 – when Mushuau Innu were making the transition to permanent communities… This book is important for Algonquian and circumpolar specialists, as well as for students wishing to understand dynamics of hunting societies in modernity. It has also become significant as a historical record both of the Innu people and of anthropology in northern Canada.” · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Description
This comprehensive study of the Naskapi Indians of Labrador is based on an anthropologist’s life with them between 1966 and 1968, when families still followed the traditional pattern of hunting on the barrens during the winter and returning to their costal settlements in the summer. Now the Naskapi live in coastal settlements; no longer in possession of their own culture, they have become sedentaries under white tutelage. This description of two antithetical worlds provides valuable insights for anyone interested in contemporary native rights issues.
Georg Henriksen† was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen (Norway). He first carried out extensive fieldwork among the Innu in 1966–68, and for the rest of his life kept returning to Labrador. It was his deep concern for the future of the Innu people, and that of other indigenous peoples, that drove him to participate in the founding of IWGIA (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs). He always retained a special fondness for the Innu people, and a great personal, professional and political interest in their affairs.
Subject: General Anthropology Environmental Studies
Area: North America
Contents
Foreword by Robert Paine
Preface
PART I: THE SETTING
Chapter 1. The Naskapi and their Environment
PART II: THE WORLD OF THE HUNTER
Chapter 2. Nomads in the Barren Lands
Chapter 3. Leadership in the Barren Ground World
Chapter 4. Socio-Territorial Groupings
PART III: SEDENTARIES UNDER WHITE TUTELAGE
Chapter 5. The Coastal World
Chapter 6. The Naskapi and their White Patrons
Chapter 7. The Meaningfulness of the Two Worlds of the Naskapi
Postscript: The Future of the Naskapi
Appendix
References
Index
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