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Author Harkin, Michael Eugene, 1958-

Title The Heiltsuks : dialogues of culture and history on the Northwest Coast / Michael E. Harkin
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 195 pages) : maps
Series Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians
Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians.
Contents Heiltsuk Language and Orthography -- 1. The Nineteenth-Century Heiltsuks -- 2. Contemporary Heiltsuk Contexts -- 3. Narrative, Time, and the Lifeworld -- 4. Contact Narratives -- 5. Dialectic and Dialogue -- 6. Bodies -- 7. Souls -- 8. Goods -- Conclusion: Worlds in Collision
Summary "In an incisive and wide-ranging critique of ethno-history and historical anthropology, Michael E. Harkin develops an innovative approach to understanding the profound cultural changes experienced during the past century by the Heiltsuks (Bella Bella), a Northwest Coast Indian group. Between 1880 and 1920, the Heiltsuks changed from one of the most traditional and aggressive groups on the Northwest Coast to paragons of Victorian virtues. Why and how did this dramatic transformation occur? These questions, Harkin contends, can best be answered by tracing the changing views the Heiltsuks had of themselves and of their past as they encountered colonial powers." "Rejecting many of the common methods and assumptions of ethnohistorians as unwittingly Eurocentric or simplistic, Harkin argues that the multiple perspectives, motives, and events constituting the Heiltsuks' world and history can be productively conceived of as dialogues, ongoing series of culturally embedded communicative acts that presuppose previous acts and constrain future ones. Historical transformations in three of these dialogues, centering on the body, material goods, and concepts of the soul, are examined in detail."--Jacket
Notes In cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-191) and index
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Subject Heiltsuk Indians -- History -- Sources
Heiltsuk Indians -- Social life and customs
Heiltsuk Indians -- Missions
Ethnohistory -- British Columbia
Heiltsuk Indians -- History -- Sources
HISTORY -- General.
Ethnohistory
Heiltsuk Indians
Heiltsuk.
Ethnic & Race Studies.
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Social Sciences.
Ethnohistoire -- Canada -- Colombie-Britannique.
Bella Bella (Indiens) -- Canada -- Colombie-Britanique -- Moeurs et coutumes.
SUBJECT British Columbia -- History -- Sources
British Columbia -- History -- Sources
Subject British Columbia
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585335125
9780585335124