Anthropology, public policy, and native peoples in Canada

Dyck, Noel. (Added Author). Waldram, James B. (James Burgess) (Added Author).

Summary: These essays provide a comprehensive evaluation of past, present and future forms of anthropological involvement in public policy issues that affect native peoples in Canada, addressing social, economic and political marginality, and advocacy work by anthropologists.

Record details

ISBN: 9780773563711 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0773563717 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0773509615
ISBN: 9780773509610
ISBN: 077350978X
ISBN: 9780773509788
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (viii, 362 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Montreal, Qué. : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1993.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:august.17 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Anthropology, public policy, and native peoples / Noel Dyck and James B. Waldram -- The emergence of Eskimo status / Derek G. Smith -- The Hawthorn report / Sally M. Weaver -- Northern development, impact assessment, and social change / Peter J. Usher -- The politics of ethnography in the Canadian North / Julie Cruikshank -- The summer meddler / Peggy Martin Brizinski -- Some native perspectives on anthropology and public policy / Ron Ignace, George Speck, and Renee Taylor -- Telling it like it is / Noel Dyck -- Political considerations in health-related participatory research in Northern Canada / John D. O'Neil ... et al. -- Anthropology and aboriginal claims research / Peter Douglas Elias -- Anthropology and Canadian native political organizations / Joe Sawchuk -- Some limits to advocacy anthropology in the native Canadian context / James B. Waldram -- Customs, tradition, and the politics of culture / Colin H. Scott -- Completing a circle / Julia D. Harrison.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.