A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature

Name: A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature
Brand: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
SKU: 9781554587681
Price: 39.99 EUR
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ISBN: 978-1-554-58768-1

Essays in Honour of Richard Slobodin

de Richard J. Preston (éditeur)

Maison d'édition : Wilfrid Laurier University Press

avril 2010

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Résumé

A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature is a collection of essays honouring Richard (Dick) Slobodin, one of the great anthropologists of the Canadian North. A short biography is followed by essays describing his formative thinking about human nature and human identities, his humanizing force in his example of living a moral, intellectual life, his discernment of people’s ability to make informed choices and actions, his freedom from ideological fashions, his writings about the Mackenzie District MÃ©tis, his determination to take peoples experience seriously, not metaphorically, and his thinking about social organization and kinship. An unpublished paper about a 1930s caribou hunt in which he participated finishes the collection, giving Dick the last word.

Auteur

Richard J. Preston (Edité par)

Richard J. Preston is nominally retired (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, McMaster University) and hopes to continue his forty-plus-year span of sojourning and work with the people of the James Bay region, focusing on the cultural dimensions of globalization and tracing the emergence of the Cree concept of community. His publications include Cree Narrative: Expressing the Personal Meanings of Events, second edition (2002), and a great many papers.