Defending the Land: Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree Society - Couverture souple

Niezen, Ronald

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0205651089 ISBN 13 : 9780205651085

Editeur : Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

The campaign of the Cree people to protect their forest way of life from the impact of hydro-electric development in northern Quebec has been widely-documented. Few have heard in any detail the outcome of this campaign and what it means for the indigenous societies' futures. This text gives equal attention to the Cree leadership's successful strategies for addressing major social and environmental pressures, with the forces of acculturation and native communities' social destruction.

 

The titles in the Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change series, edited by David Maybury-Lewis and Theodore Macdonald, Jr. of Cultural Survival, Inc., Harvard University, focus on key issues affecting indigenous and ethnic groups worldwide.  Each ethnography builds on introductory material by going further in-depth and allowing students to explore, virtually first-hand, a particular issue and its impact on a culture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ronald Niezen is Professor of Anthropology at McGill University. His research interested include political/legal anthropology, indigenous peoples and human rights, the social study of new media, history of anthropology/social theory, and social change in Africa.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0205651089
• ISBN 13: 9780205651085
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 136
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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