Little bit know something : stories in a language of anthropology

Type

Book

Authors

Robin Ridington ( Ridington, Robin )

ISBN 10

0888946813

ISBN 13

9780888946812

Tags

Anthropology -- Philosophy, Language and culture, Oral tradition -- British Columbia, Oral tradition, Dunne-za philosophy, Dunne-za, Beaver, Dene philosophy, Dunne-za -- Religion, Dene -- Religion, Dene

Abstract

"The Dunne-za, the Beaver Indians of British Columbia, say that people who speak from the authority of their experience "little bit know something." This knowledge, which comes through direct experience, dreaming, and the searing transformation of the vision quest, empowers a person to live in this world with intelligence and understanding.

In this sensitive, insightful volume, drawn from over twenty-five years' experience with the Dunne-za Indians, Ridington advocates his unique language of anthropology - and in so doing he communicates the themes of cultural and individual knowledge, visionary empowerment, shamanic transformation, and the dialogic basis of ethnographic authority within the evolving context of a humanistic cultural anthropology."-- Back cover.

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