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12%OFFCarolyn Podruchny (Ed.) - Gathering Places: Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories - 9780774818445 - V9780774818445
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Gathering Places: Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories

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Description for Gathering Places: Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories Paperback. Scholars from multiple disciplines draw on unique and innovative sources - archaeological and material evidence, personal experience and oral history - to recover Aboriginal and cross-cultural histories and explore new approaches to the past. Editor(s): Podruchny, Carolyn; Peers, Laura. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, frontispiece, figures, charts. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.

British traders and Ojibwe hunters. Cree women and their metis daughters. Explorers and anthropologists and Aboriginal guides and informants. These people, their relationships, and their complex identities were not featured in histories until the 1970s, when scholars from multiple disciplines brought new perspectives and approaches to bear on the past.

Gathering Places presents some of the most innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to metis, fur trade, and First Nations history being practised today. Whether they are discussing dietary practices on the Plateau, the meanings of totemic signatures, or issues of representation in public history, the authors present novel explorations of evidence that ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774818445
SKU
V9780774818445
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Carolyn Podruchny (Ed.)
Carolyn Podruchny teaches history at York University. Laura Peers teaches and is a curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Contributors: Heidi Bohaker, Jennifer S.H. Brown, Kevin Brownlee, Robert Coutts, Heather Devine, Frederic W. Gleach, Susan Elaine Gray, David R. Miller, Roger Roulette, Theresa Schenck, Elizabeth Vibert, Germaine Warkentin, Cory Willmott

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