Bringing home animals : Mistissini hunters of Northern Quebec / Adrian Tanner ; with a foreword by Kevin Brousseau.

Bringing home animals : Mistissini hunters of Northern Quebec / Adrian Tanner ; with a foreword by Kevin Brousseau.

By
: 
Tanner, Adrian, 1937-

Publication Date
: 
2014

Publication Information
: 
St. John's, N.L. : ISER Books,

Edition
: 
Second edition.

Volume
: 
no. 75

Physical Description
: 
368 p. : ill. (chiefly colour)

Subject Term
: 
Mistassin Indians -- Hunting.
 
Indians of North America -- Québec (Province) -- Hunting.
 
Mistassin Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.
 
Indians of North America -- Québec (Province) -- Rites and ceremonies.

Series
: 
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES ;
 
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES (ST. JOHN'S, N.L.) ;

Bibliography Note
: 
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary
: 
Bringing Home Animals explores the way of life of the Mistissini Iinuu hunters, their understanding of and adaptation to the ecology of their hunting grounds, their subsistence-based economy and its relation to market production, their land tenure system, the impact of external agencies on them, and their rich spiritual and symbolic life, particularly the rituals that show respect for the animals before, during, and following the hunt.

Language
: 
English

ISBN
: 
9781894725149

General Note
: 
Revision of: Bringing home animals : religious ideology and mode of production of the Mistassini Cree hunters / Adrian Tanner. -- St. John's : Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, c1979.


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St. John's - A.C. HunterAdult NFic NLAdult Non-Fiction NL970.3 T15
St. John's - A.C. HunterAdult NFic NL Ref - NL RmAdult Non-Fiction NL Reference - NL Room970.3 T15
St. John's - A.C. HunterAdult NFic NL Ref - Prov CollAdult Non-Fiction NL Reference Provincial Collection970.3 T15
St. John's - A.C. HunterAdult NFic NL Ref - VaultAdult Non-Fiction NL Reference - Vault970.3 T15
WabushAdult NFic NLAdult Non-Fiction NL970.3 T15