Reserve Memories The Power of the Past in a Chilcotin Community

Name: Reserve Memories The Power of the Past in a Chilcotin Community
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ISBN: 9780803222465

ISBN-10: 0803222467

ISBN-13: 9780803222465

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Authors: David W. Dinwoodie

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Reserve Memoriesexamines how myths and narratives about the past have enabled a Northern Athabaskan community to understand and confront challenges and opportunities in the present. For over five centuries the Chilcotin people have lived in relative isolation in the rich timberlands and scattered meadows of the inland Northwest, in what is today known as west central British Columbia. Although linguistic and cultural changes are escalating, they remain one of the more traditional and little known Native communities in northwestern North America. Combining years of fieldwork with an acute theoretical perspective, David W. Dinwoodie sheds light on the special power of the past for the…

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List price: $19.95
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 9/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.90" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.440

David W. Dinwoodie is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico. His articles have appeared inAnthropological LinguisticsandCultural Anthropology.