Social Science Indigenous Studies
Grateful Prey
Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships
- Publisher
- University of Regina Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2002
- Category
- Indigenous Studies, Agriculture & Food, Cultural
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780889771376
- Publish Date
- Mar 2002
- List Price
- $29.95
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Description
Grateful Preyuncovers the interaction between magico-religious ideology and hunting strategies among the Asinskawoiniwak, or Rock Cree, of Northern Manitoba. Brightman maintains that subsistence strategies need to be analyzed in terms of the foragers’ own ethnoecological 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.
About the author
Robert Brightman is professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin.