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The Queen's people : a study of hegemony, coercion, and accommodation among the Okanagan of Canada /

An analysis of the realities of everyday life for Okanagan Indians on a reserve near Vernon. Carstens applies the peasant model to the study of reserve systems and finds significant correlations. Questions of class, status, power, and institutionalized inequality also come into play.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carstens, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©1991.
Colección:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part One The Creation of a Reserve
  • 1 Traditional Okanagan Society and Institutions
  • 2 The Beginnings of White Hegemony
  • 3 Reserving Other People's Land
  • 4 The O'Keefe Syndrome
  • 5 Rule by Notables
  • 6 The Process of Economic Incorporation
  • 7 The Political Incorporation of Chiefs and the People, 1865-1931.
  • Part Two The Contemporary Community
  • 8 The Okanagan Reserve as Canadian Community
  • 9 Okanagan Factions
  • 10 Making Ends Meet in the 1950s
  • 11 Household Economy and the Wider Society in the 1980s
  • 12 The Assimilation of Chiefs, 1932-1987
  • 13 Band Government, Administration, and Politics
  • 14 Band Council Affairs
  • 15 Why Education?
  • 16 Reserve Catholicism.
  • Part Three The Wider Framework
  • 17 The Queen's People: An Anthropologist's View
  • Appendices.