Our box was full : an ethnography for the Delgamuukw plaintiffs
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0774810750
ISBN 13
9780774810753
LCCN
E99.K55D34
DDC
305.897
Category
Indigenous Law
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Publication Year
2005
Publisher
Pages
352
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Abstract
"For the Gitksan and Witsuwit'en peoples of northwest British Columbia, the land is invested with meaning that goes beyond simple notions of property or sustenance. Considered both a food box and a storage box of history and wealth, the land plays a central role in their culture, survival, history, and identity. In Our Box Was Full, Richard Daly explores the centrality of this notion in the determination of Aboriginal rights with particular reference to the landmark Delgamuukw case that occupied the British Columbia courts from 1987 to 1997"--Jacket.
Description
Contents:
Foreword / Michael Jackson -- Foreword / Peter Grant -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The reciprocities of a pole-raising feast -- 3. A giving environment : nutrition and seasonal round -- 4. A kinship economy -- 5. Production management and social hierarchy -- 6. Gifts, exchange, and trade -- 7. Owners and stewards -- 8. Epilogue -- Afterword : back to the future / Don Ryan / Masgaak.
Foreword / Michael Jackson -- Foreword / Peter Grant -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The reciprocities of a pole-raising feast -- 3. A giving environment : nutrition and seasonal round -- 4. A kinship economy -- 5. Production management and social hierarchy -- 6. Gifts, exchange, and trade -- 7. Owners and stewards -- 8. Epilogue -- Afterword : back to the future / Don Ryan / Masgaak.
Biblio Notes
Contains illustrations, facsimiles, maps and portraits.
Number of Copies
1
