Loon : memory, meaning, and reality in a northern Dene community /

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In August 1975 at Foxholm Lake on the reserve of the Chipewyan, a Northern Dene people, in the Northwest Territories of Canada, the anthropologist Henry S. Sharp and two members of the Mission Band encountered a loon. Loons are prized for their meat and skin, so the two Chipewyan tried-thirty times-...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sharp, Henry S.
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Chipewyan philosophy.
Chipewyan mythology.
Chipewyan Indians > Social life and customs.
Philosophie chippewyan.
Mythologie chippewyan.
Chippewyan > Mœurs et coutumes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Manners and customs.
Northwest Territories > Social life and customs.
Territoires du Nord-Ouest > Mœurs et coutumes.
Northwest Territories.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Loon
  • Mission
  • Indeterminacy
  • Foxholm Lake
  • The whites' land
  • Loon II
  • Wild things
  • Time
  • Animals
  • Wolf
  • Dog
  • Loon III
  • Talking about things
  • Loon IV
  • Meaning
  • Death by meaning
  • Event and memory
  • Future memory
  • Loon V.

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