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Social Science Indigenous Studies

Grateful Prey

Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships

by (author) Robert Brightman

Publisher
University of Regina Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2002
Category
Indigenous Studies, Agriculture & Food, Cultural
  • 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.

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