| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 216 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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-to kill it. The loon, in a brazen display of power, thwarted these attempts and in doing so revealed itself to be a "spirit." In this book, Sharp embarks on a narrative exploration of the Chipewyan culture that examines the nature of a reality within which wild animals are both persons and spirits. In an unforgettable journey through the symbolic universe and daily life of the Chipewyan of Mission, his work uses the context and meaning of the loon encounter to show how spirits are an actual and almost omnipresent aspect of life |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-211) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Chipewyan philosophy.
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Chipewyan mythology.
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Chipewyan Indians -- Social life and customs
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
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Chipewyan Indians -- Social life and customs
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Chipewyan mythology
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Chipewyan philosophy
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Manners and customs
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| SUBJECT |
Northwest Territories -- Social life and customs
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| Subject |
Northwest Territories
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0803202385 |
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9780803202382 |
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1280374152 |
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9781280374159 |
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9786610374151 |
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6610374155 |
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