Ways of Knowing Experience, Knowledge, and Power among the Dene Tha

Name: Ways of Knowing Experience, Knowledge, and Power among the Dene Tha
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ISBN: 9780803270749

ISBN-10: 0803270747

ISBN-13: 9780803270749

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Authors: Jean-Guy A. Goulet

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This innovative study reveals the creative world of a Native community. Once seminomadic hunters and gatherers who traveled by horse wagon, canoe, and dog sled, the Dene Tha of northern Canada today live in government-built homes in the settlement of Chateh. Their lives are a distinct blend of old and new, in which traditional forms of social control, healing, and praying entwine with services supplied by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a nursing station, and a Roman Catholic church. Many older cultural beliefs and practices remain: ghosts linger, reincarnating and sometimes causing deaths; past and future are interpreted through the Prophet Dance; “animal helpers” become lifelong…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 12/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 334
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Jean-Guy Goulet is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Calgary.



Preface


Introduction



Stories from the Field



True Knowledge and True Responsibility



Powerful Beings and Being Powerful



Powers to Heal, Powers to Respect



Visions of Conflict, Conflicts of Vision



Journeys of the Soul



Searching for a Womb



When the Drum and the Rosary Meet



Dancing Your Way to Heaven



An Experiential Approach to Knowledge


Notes


References


Index