Grateful prey : Rock Cree human-animal relationships

Brightman, Robert 1950- (author.). University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center (issuing body.).

Summary: Grateful Prey uncovers the interaction between magico-religious ideology and hunting strategies among the Asinskawioiniwak, or Rock Cree, of Northern Manitoba. Brightman maintains that subsistence strategies need to be analyzed in terms of the foragers’ own ethno ecological categories and postulates, both sacred and secular, a position which poses a challenge to prevailing ecological and Marxist approaches to foraging societies and strategies. A major contribution to the study of foraging societies.

Record details

ISBN: 0889771375 :
ISBN: 9780889771376 (softcover) :
Physical Description: xvi, 396 pages ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: Regina : Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, 2002.
Copyright: ©1973

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references: p. 379-392 and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Tables -- Preface -- 1. You got to keep it holy -- 2.There was just animals before -- 3.Dreaming all the bottom of the water -- 4.The same respect you give yourself -- 5.And some guys dream bad things -- 6.They come to be like human -- 7.Laboring thus to destroy their friends -- 8.You got to eat the whole works -- 9.The more they destroy, the greater plenty will succeed -- 10.Let the young ones go for next year -- 11.No notion of frugality -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index.