Let the past go : a life history
Type
Book
Authors
Category
General Library Collection
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Publication Year
1986
Publisher
National Museums of Canada, Canada
Pages
121
Subject
Cree -- Social life and customs
Tags
Cree women -- Nunavut -- James Bay -- History, Indigenous women -- Nunavut -- James Bay -- History, Indigenous peoples -- Nunavut -- James Bay -- History, Indigenous peoples -- James Bay Region -- History, Cree women, Indigenous women, Canada -- James Bay Region, Hudson Bay -- James Bay, Cree -- Social life and customs, Cree
Abstract
"Life history as an anthropological technique is rarely used due to an assumed difficulty with analysis; however, a consideration of life history narratives provides some insight into individual understanding of experience, which often becomes lost in abstract generalized accounts of culture. Anthropologists derive personal meaning and cultural meaning from the same observed behavior and it is because the distinction between individual and cultural is blurred in a life history that analysis becomes a problem. This document is an elaboration of one individual's understanding of experience; an explication of inherent meaning, both personal and cultural, as expressed in the narrative of a Cree woman from Rupert House, James Bay, Quebec."--WorldCat.org.
Number of Copies
1
