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