A Different Drummer: Readings in Anthropology with a Canadian Perspective 9780773595804

Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Notes On Contributors
Preface
PART I: METHODOLOGY
Chapter 1: The Anthropologist as Stranger: The Sociology of Fieldwork
Chapter 2: Transpersonal Anthropology: What Is It, And What Are The Problems We Face In Doing It?
PART II: CULTURAL POLITICS
Chapter 3: Historical Anthropology
Chapter 4: Museums as Bridges to the Global Village
Chapter 5: The Tourist and the Native
PART III: PRAXIS
Chapter 6: An Anthropologist's View of Canadian Native Peoples
Chapter 7: The Politics of Anthropological Research: Aboriginal Rights in Canada and Australia
Chapter 8: The Fort Black Co-operative Store: A Social Experiment Among The Ile a La Crosse Metis
Chapter 9: Land Reform and Class Struggle in Mexico
Chapter 10: Celtic Festivals and Bilingualism Policy: The Barra "Feis"
PART IV: RETHINKING THE PAST
Chapter 11: Social Archaeology and the Early State
Chapter 12: Contemporary Ethnohistory: Rethinking Trade-dependence
Chapter 13: Brain, Culture and Evolution: Some Basic Issues In Neuroanthropology

Citation preview

A

DIFFERENT DRUMMER: READINGS IN ANTHROPOLOGY WITH A CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE

edited by Bruce Alden Cox Jacques Chevalier Valda Blundell The Anthropology Caucus Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Carleton Un iversity Press Ottawa 1994

© The Anthropology Caucus, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, j 989. All rights reserved.

ISBN # 0-7709-0249-9 Fifth Printing, 1994

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We would like to give special thanks to those whose input and talent greatly assisted the caucus in bringing out this volume: Dean Marilyn Marshall, Allan Steeves, John de Vries, Andrina Cox for the wonderful artwork throughout this volume, Else Brock and Jennifer Davidson for typing the manuscript.

All Desktop publishing, layout and consulting were performed by Bradley C. Pinch of BCP Enterprises, Ottawa, Ontario.

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." -

Henry David Thoreau

.... ;,: .:

:-y -:: /.~.,' f:

': .

. : --. ~:

:

. ..

i,

( ,