Reserve Memories: The Power of the Past in a Chilcotin Community (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians) - Softcover

Dinwoodie, David W.

 
9780803222465: Reserve Memories: The Power of the Past in a Chilcotin Community (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians)
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ISBN 10: 0803222467 ISBN 13: 9780803222465
Verlag: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR, 2007

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Reserve Memories examines how myths and narratives about the past have enabled a Northern Athabaskan community to understand and confront challenges and opportunities in the present. For over five centuries the Chilcotin people have lived in relative isolation in the rich timberlands and scattered meadows of the inland Northwest, in what is today known as west central British Columbia. Although linguistic and cultural changes are escalating, they remain one of the more traditional and little known Native communities in northwestern North America.

Combining years of fieldwork with an acute theoretical perspective, David W. Dinwoodie sheds light on the special power of the past for the Chilcotin people of the Nemiah Valley Indian Reserve. In different social and political settings, they draw upon a "reserve" of memories-in particular, myths and historical narratives-and reactivate them in order to help make sense of and deal effectively with the possibilities and problems of the modern world. For example, the declaration of the Chilcotins against clear-cut logging draws upon one of their central myths, adding a deeper and more lasting cultural significance and resonance to the political statement.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David W. Dinwoodie is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico. His articles have appeared in Anthropological Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology.

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Verlag
UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803222467
ISBN 13 
9780803222465
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120
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