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Title Together we survive : ethnographic intuitions, friendships, and conversations / edited by John S. Long and Jennifer S.H. Brown
Published Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015

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Series McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 79
McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 79.
Contents Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Tribute -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: Richard J. Preston on Friendship, Family, Community, and Commitment -- Part One: Making a Living, Changing Community -- 1 Creating Jobs and an Eenou Social Economy -- 2 Architecture without Rooms: Cree Dwellings and Social Order -- Part Two: Images, Textures, Dreams, and Identity -- 3 Beaded Hoods of the James Bay Cree: Origins and Developments -- 4 A Token of Remembrance: The Gift of a Cree Hood, Red River Settlement, 1844 -- 5 Anishinaabe Doodem Pictographs: Narrative Inscriptions and Identities -- Part Three: Songs and Narratives -- 6 John Kawapit's Hunting Songs -- 7 Cultural Structures of First Nations Imagination: A Social Science View -- Part Four: Indigenous Rights, Compassion, and Peace -- 8 A Roadmap for Reconciliation and Justice: The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples -- 9 Compassionate Landscapes: Caring for the Great Community of Persons -- 10 Are You Crying because the Way Is Hard? Linking Cree and Quaker Concerns in Dick's Life Journey -- Note on Terminology -- Selected Writings of Richard Joseph Preston III -- Contributors -- Index
Summary "This edited collection is a tribute to Richard J. (Dick) Preston, whose work understanding and interpreting the culture of the Cree populations of Waskaganish, northern Quebec, has influenced a generation of anthropologists in Canada and beyond. A quarter-century of Preston's academic life was spent at McMaster University and his work, Cree Narrative (2nd edition, MQUP, 2002), which was based on the oral accounts, was recognized as a pioneering work in cognitive anthropology. The contributions to this festschrift are written by his former students and colleagues and include an interview with Preston that explores how his Quaker inclinations have influenced his work. The book opens with a biography of the honoree and goes on to explore themes such as development and urbanization, material culture, and conflict."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Cree Indians.
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
Cree Indians
Indigenes Volk
Ethnologie
Cree
Genre/Form Electronic books
Festschriften
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Brown, Jennifer S. H., 1940- editor.
Long, John S., 1948-2016, author, editor.
Preston, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1931- honouree
ISBN 9780773597860
0773597867
9780773597877
0773597875