Loon Memory, Meaning, and Reality in a Northern Dene Community

Name: Loon Memory, Meaning, and Reality in a Northern Dene Community
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ISBN: 9780803293212

ISBN-10: 0803293216

ISBN-13: 9780803293212

Edition: 2005

Authors: Henry S. Sharp, Henry Sharp

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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…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 12/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.98" wide x 7.99" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English




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