The Heiltsuks : dialogues of culture and history on the Northwest Coast /

"In an incisive and wide-ranging critique of ethno-history and historical anthropology, Michael E. Harkin develops an innovative approach to understanding the profound cultural changes experienced during the past century by the Heiltsuks (Bella Bella), a Northwest Coast Indian group. Between 18...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harkin, Michael Eugene, 1958-
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1997.
Colección:Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians.
Temas:
Heiltsuk Indians > History > Sources.
Heiltsuk Indians > Social life and customs.
Heiltsuk Indians > Missions.
Ethnohistory > British Columbia.
Bella Bella > Histoire > Sources.
Bella Bella > Mœurs et coutumes.
Bella Bella > Missions.
Ethnohistoire > Colombie-Britannique.
HISTORY > General.
Ethnohistory
Heiltsuk Indians
Heiltsuk.
Ethnic & Race Studies.
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Social Sciences.
Ethnohistoire > Canada > Colombie-Britannique.
Bella Bella (Indiens) > Canada > Colombie-Britanique > Moeurs et coutumes.
British Columbia > History > Sources.
Colombie-Britannique > Histoire > Sources.
British Columbia
History
Sources
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"In an incisive and wide-ranging critique of ethno-history and historical anthropology, Michael E. Harkin develops an innovative approach to understanding the profound cultural changes experienced during the past century by the Heiltsuks (Bella Bella), a Northwest Coast Indian group. Between 1880 and 1920, the Heiltsuks changed from one of the most traditional and aggressive groups on the Northwest Coast to paragons of Victorian virtues. Why and how did this dramatic transformation occur? These questions, Harkin contends, can best be answered by tracing the changing views the Heiltsuks had of themselves and of their past as they encountered colonial powers." "Rejecting many of the common methods and assumptions of ethnohistorians as unwittingly Eurocentric or simplistic, Harkin argues that the multiple perspectives, motives, and events constituting the Heiltsuks' world and history can be productively conceived of as dialogues, ongoing series of culturally embedded communicative acts that presuppose previous acts and constrain future ones. Historical transformations in three of these dialogues, centering on the body, material goods, and concepts of the soul, are examined in detail."--Jacket.
Notas:In cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 195 pages) : maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-191) and index.
ISBN:0585335125
9780585335124

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