By Karyn Sharp,Henry S. Sharp
ISBN-10: 0803274467
ISBN-13: 9780803274464
Denésuliné hunters variety from deep within the Boreal woodland a long way into the tundra of northern Canada. Henry S. Sharp, a social anthropologist and ethnographer, spent numerous a long time engaging in fieldwork and looking at hunts by way of this prolonged kinfolk crew. His daughter, Karyn Sharp, who's an archaeologist focusing on First international locations reviews and is Denésuliné, additionally saw numerous hunts. through the years the daddy and daughter discovered that not just their own backgrounds but additionally their disciplinary specializations considerably affected how every one perceived and understood their stories with the Denésuliné.
In Hunting Caribou, Henry and Karyn Sharp try and comprehend and interpret their decades-long observations of Denésuliné hunts during the a number of disciplinary lenses of anthropology, archaeology, and ethnology. even if questions and methodologies range among disciplines, the Sharps’ ethnography, by means of connecting those parts, presents distinct insights into the ecology and motivations of searching societies.
Themes of gender, women’s hard work, bugs, wolf and caribou habit, scale, mobility and transportation, and land use are associated during the authors’ own voice and reviews. This player ethnography makes an incredible contribution to a number of fields in academe whereas concurrently revealing large implications for examine, public coverage, and primary international locations politics.
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