Storied Communities
Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community
An exploration of the role of storytelling in community and nation building that disrupts the assumption in many works that indigenous and immigrant identities fall into two separate streams of analysis.
- Copyright year: 2011
Making a Living
Place, Food, and Economy in an Inuit Community
A social and cultural examination of Indigenous societies as they strive to retain the values rooted in life on the land while adjusting to the realities of life in settlements.
- Copyright year: 2010
Being Again of One Mind
Oneida Women and the Struggle for Decolonization
By combining the narratives of Oneida women with a critical reading of feminist literature on nationalism, this book reveals that some Indigenous women view nationalism in the form of decolonization as a way to restore balance and well-being to their own lives and communities.
- Copyright year: 2010
Moving Mountains
Ethnicity and Livelihoods in Highland China, Vietnam, and Laos
This collection argues that minorities in the Southeast Asian Massif are not powerless in the face of economic and political change in the region – they are drawing on ethnicity and culture to indigenize modernity and maintain their livelihoods.
- Copyright year: 2011
Gathering Places
Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories
Scholars from multiple disciplines draw on unique and innovative sources – archaeological and material evidence, personal experience and oral history – to recover Aboriginal and cross-cultural histories and explore new approaches to the past.
- Copyright year: 2010
Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors
Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions
Following the revival of the gray whale hunt by the Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth tribes in the Pacific Northwest, this books looks at the significance of whaling to these societies, exploring environmentalism, animal rights, and what it means to be “Indian.”
- Copyright year: 2010
Solidarities Beyond Borders
Transnationalizing Women's Movements
Case studies from North America, Latin America, and Southeast Asia explore the challenges and benefits of building transnational ties among feminists and women’s groups.
- Copyright year: 2010
Terrain of Memory
A Japanese Canadian Memorial Project
This book explores how Japanese Canadians living in an isolated mountainous valley in the province of British Columbia worked together to transform the village where they lived for over fifty years from a site of political violence into a space for remembrance.
- Copyright year: 2010
Settlers on the Edge
Identity and Modernization on Russia's Arctic Frontier
Deeply researched and eloquently written, Settlers on the Edge ... makes an important and long-overdue contribution to our understanding of who belongs in the North.
– Farley Mowat
- Copyright year: 2008
First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law
Case Studies, Voices, and Perspectives
- Copyright year: 2008
A Zapotec Natural History
A Zapotec Natural History is an extraordinary book and accompanying CD (also avialble on the web here!) that describe the people of a small town in Mexico and their remarkable knowledge of the natural world in which they live. San Juan Gbëë is a Zapotec Indian ...
- Copyright year: 2008
Imagining Head-Smashed-In
Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains
Archaeologist Jack Brink has written a major study of the mass buffalo hunts and the culture they supported before and after European contact. drawing on his 25 years excavating at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in southwestern Alberta, Canada – a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Copyright year: 2008
First Nations of British Columbia, Second Edition, The
An Anthropological Survey
A concise and accessible overview of First Nations cultures and issues in the province, this book familiarizes readers with the history, diversity, and complexity of First Nations to provide a context for contemporary concerns and initiatives.
- Copyright year: 2006
At Home with the Bella Coola Indians
T.F. McIlwraith's Field Letters, 1922-4
- Copyright year: 2003
Cree Narrative Memory
From Treaties to Contemporary Times
Drawing upon the narrative memory of his family from the James Smith and Sandy Lake reserves in Saskatchewan, Neal McLeod gives a narrative history of the determination and adaptability of Plains Cree.
- Copyright year: 2007
Be of Good Mind
Essays on the Coast Salish
- Copyright year: 2007
The Culture of Hunting in Canada
From hunting ethics to animal rights to tensions between hunting sub-groups, this towering collection of essays address important historical and contemporary issues regarding the culture and practice of hunting.
- Copyright year: 2006
Development's Displacements
Economies, Ecologies, and Cultures at Risk
- Copyright year: 2006
Historicizing Canadian Anthropology
The first significant examination of the historical development of anthropological study addresses key issues in the evolution of the discipline.
- Copyright year: 2006