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ANTHROPOLOGY / NATIVE STUDIES The First Nations of British Columbia, second edition An Anthropological Survey Robert J. Muckle NOVEMBER 2006 168 pages, est., 5.5 x 8.5” 0-7748-1349-0 / 978-0-7748-1349-5 pb $19.95 Switchbacks Art, Ownership, and Nuxalk National Identity Jennifer Kramer Robert J. Muckle teaches anthropology at Capilano College in North Vancouver. » Also available Hunters and Bureaucrats Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon Paul Nadasdy – see page 46 At Home with the Bella Coola Indians T.F. McIlwraith’s Field Letters, 1922-4 John Barker and Douglas Cole – see page 46 The First Nations of British Columbia provides an up-to-date, concise, and accessible overview of First Nations’ peoples, cultures, and issues in British Columbia. Robert Muckle surveys the history, diversity, and complexity of First Nations from an anthropological perspective, incorporating archaeological, ethnographic, historic, and legal-political issues. Muckle begins by describing today’s First Nations, including information on populations, settlements, territories, bands, and other affiliations. The following sections focus on prehistory, traditional lifeways and cultural change over the past few hundred years, as well as the impact of the fur trade, gold rushes, European and American settlement and government, missionaries, and residential schools. Current issues regarding aboriginal rights and the treaty negotiation process are also discussed. This new edition contains current information on plant management, wage labour, the Nisga’a Agreement, and the discovery of Kwaday Dan Sinchi – the 600-year-old remains of a man found frozen in northwestern BC. The appendices, readings, and all names, data, and spellings have been updated. The First Nations of British Columbia is an indispensable resource for teachers and students, and an excellent introduction for anyone interested in BC’s First Nations. Switchbacks explores how the Nuxalk of Bella Coola, British Columbia, negotiate such complex questions as: Who owns culture? How should culture be transmitted to future generations? Where does selling and buying Nuxalk art fit into attempts to regain control of heritage? To answer these questions, Jennifer Kramer undertook participant observation at Nuxalk artists’ studios, in the Nuxalk-run band school’s cultural education classes, and during the everyday activities of Nuxalk in their homes. She charts the fluid character of material culture as it moves in and out of the cultural education curriculum, the Western art market, and the Western legal system. In addition, Kramer analyzes the ambivalent reactions of the Nuxalk to ownership, appropriation, and repatriation of Nuxalk culture. The Nuxalk oscillate between essentialist stances, a process Kramer likens to “switchbacks” on a mountain road. Through these recurrent movements they create, recreate, and validate contemporary Nuxalk identity. Kramer demonstrates that loss of cultural objects proves that Nuxalk culture is valuable through external affirmation. The Nuxalk use their cultural patrimony to assert their collective national identity. At stake are not only definitions of alienable and inalienable property but also a unified national identity that affords the Nuxalk a strong position from whence to reclaim traditional territory and regain self-determination in BC. Jennifer Kramer is a curator at the Museum of Anthropology and an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at the University of British Columbia. 2006, 168 pages, 6 x 9” 2 maps 0-7748-1227-3 / 978-0-7748-1227-6 hc $85.00 26 www.ubcpress.ca / 1 877 864 8477
ANTHROPOLOGY Historicizing Canadian Anthropology Edited by Julia Harrison and Regna Darnell OCTOBER 2006 352 pages, est., 6 x 9” 0-7748-1272-9 / 978-0-7748-1272-6 hc $85.00 Despite Canada’s longstanding tradition of anthropological study, there has been little significant examination to date of the discipline’s historical development. Historicizing Canadian Anthropology takes a major step towards rectifying this omission, and provides the first wide-ranging coverage of the topic to be published in over two decades. Writing from the position that Canadian anthropology is unique in its approach to the discipline, the contributors to this landmark collection reflect on its definition and scope and explore the degree to which a uniquely Canadian tradition affects anthropological theory, practice, and reflexivity. This volume addresses key issues in the evolution of the discipline: the shaping influence of Aboriginal-anthropological encounters; the challenge of compiling a history for the Canadian context; and the place of international and institutional relations. Historicizing Canadian Anthropology is a watershed that will revitalize critical reflexivity within the field. With contributions from a broad cross-section of anthropologists – from senior scholars to doctoral students – this book is essential reading for practising Canadian anthropologists, their students, and others who seek to understand the historical contours of the field. Julia Harrison is the President of the Canadian Anthropological Association and author of Being a Tourist: Finding Meaning in Pleasure Travel. She is an associate professor of Anthropology and Chair of Women’s Studies at Trent University. Regna Darnell is a professor of Anthropology and Director of the First Nations Studies Program at the University of Western Ontario. She is author of Invisible Genealogies: A History of Americanist Anthropology. » Also available Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination Julie Cruikshank – see page 46 Being a Tourist Finding Meaning in Pleasure Travel Julia Harrison – see page 46 www.ubcpress.ca / 1 877 864 8477 27
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