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At Home with the Bella Coola Indians

T.F. McIlwraith's Field Letters, 1922-4

Édité par Douglas Cole & John Barker
Catégories: Histoires des Amériques, Histoire, Histoire et archéologie, Histoire sociale et culturelle, Événements et phénomènes historiques particuliers, Populations autochtones, Groupes ethniques et études interculturelles, Recherche sur l’ethnicité, Groupes sociaux, Sciences sociales et culturelles, Sciences humaines et sociales, Les Amériques, Qualificateurs de lieux, Relating to indigenous peoples, Relatif à des groupes ethniques et aux peuples autochtones, Relatif à des groupes et cultures particuliers ou à des intérêts sociaux et culturels, Qualificateurs d’intérêt
Éditeur: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774809795, 224 pages, Mars 2003
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Table des matières

Illustrations

Foreword by Lawrence Pootlas

Preface

Introduction

The Bella Coola Field Letters of T. F. McIlwraith, 1922-4

The First Season, March to July 1922

The Second Season, September 1923 to March 1924

Bella Coola Manuscripts

At Home with the Bella Coola Indians

Certain Aspects of the Potlatch among the Bella Coola

Observations on the Medical Lore of the Bella Coola Indians, British Columbia

Notes

References

Index

La description

Between 1922 and 1924, the young Canadian anthropologist T. F. McIlwraith spent eleven months in the isolated community of Bella Coola, British Columbia, living among the people of the Nuxalk First Nation. During his time there, McIlwraith gained intimate knowledge of the Nuxalk culture and of their struggle to survive in the face of massive depopulation, loss of traditional lands, and the efforts of the Canadian government to ban the potlatch. McIlwraith’s resulting ethnography, The Bella Coola Indians (1948), is widely considered the finest published study of a Northwest Coast First Nation.

This volume is a rich complement to McIlwraith’s classic work, incorporating his letters from the field as well as previously unpublished essays on the Nuxalk. Vivid and lively, the letters show the human side of the anthropologist, and provide a fascinating insight into the famous Northwest winter ceremonials and potlatch — events in which McIlwraith was one of the few white men privileged to participate as a dancer and partner.

Extensive editorial annotations and striking photographs make this book a pleasurable read that will appeal to anthropologists and historians, as well as those with interests in Northwest cultures and the history of anthropology in Canada.