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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hans M Carlson |
ISBN: | 9780774814942 0774814942 |
OCLC Number: | 318675132 |
Awards: | Short-listed for Harold Adams Innis Prize, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences 2010 (Canada) |
Description: | 1 v. : ill., maps. ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Foreword: Dignity and Power / Graeme WynnAcknowledgments1 Introduction: Why James Bay?2 Imagining the Land3 Inland Engagement4 Christians and Cree5 Marginal Existences6 Management and Moral Economy7 Flooding the Garden8 Conclusion: Journeys of Wellness, Walks of the HeartPostscriptNotesBibliographyIndex |
Responsibility: | Hans M. Carlson ; foreword by Graeme Wynn. |
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It is the question and power of narratives on which Carlson's book turns. His study is thick with a multitude of them, and he seamlessly blends different narratives within each chapter, usually setting up his own interpretation against the dominant ones. He is particularly concerned with the interplay of culture and environment that often gets downplayed or ignored entirely in other studies. [...] Carlson does more than write the Cree into our narrative; he pens a Cree-centered narrative that writes newcomers into it, and it is this aspect of Carlson's book that is the most compelling. [...] Home Is the Hunter is an excellent study of human and environmental relationships. [...] Anyone with a minimal understanding of this place and these people should read this book, if only to see where their narratives fit in with others and to gain a greater appreciation for the history of the Cree and for the potential dangers to which we all contribute by pulling resources from the periphery while at the same time imposing our outsider understandings over local ones. -- Jonathan Clapperton, University of Saskatchewan * H-Canada * Read more...


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