I Dreamed the Animals - Georg Henriksen

I Dreamed the Animals

Kaniuekutat: The Life of an Innu Hunter

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Buch | Softcover
356 Seiten
2021
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-022-9 (ISBN)
44,10 inkl. MwSt
This is Kaniuekutat's book. In it, he tells the story of his life and that of Innu culture in the northern parts of Labrador. The pages of this book are filled with the voice of Kaniuekutat giving his account of an Innu hunter's life and the problems and distress that have been caused by sedentarization and village life. Kaniuekutat invites us to see Innu society and culture from the inside, the way he lives it and reflects upon it. He was greatly concerned that young Innu may lose their traditional culture and the skills necessary to make a living as hunters, and wanted to convey a message: the Innu must take care of their language, their culture and their traditions.

Georg Henriksen (1940-2007) was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen (Norway). He first carried out extensive fieldwork among the Innu in 1966–68, and for the rest of his life kept returning to Labrador. It was his deep concern for the future of the Innu people, and that of other indigenous peoples, that drove him to participate in the founding of IWGIA (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs). He always retained a special fondness for the Innu people, and a great personal, professional and political interest in their affairs.

Acknowledgements



Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. The day I became a hunter

Chapter 3. Kauitatikumat: The boy who married a caribou

Chapter 4. Gifts from the animal spirits

Chapter 5. The shaking tent, Mishtapeu and the shaman

Chapter 6. The power of myths

Chapter 7. The elders always found a way to find animals

Chapter 8. Atshen and the shaman

Chapter 9. The myth of Aiasheu

Chapter 10. To travel alone is dangerous

Chapter 11. The myth of Mehutshu

Chapter 12. Meminiteu and Atshen

Chapter13. I dreamed the animals

Chapter 14. Impact with no return

Chapter 15. Atsheniss and the shaman

Chapter 16. Kuekuatsheu made the world

Chapter17. Only priests and God keep records

Chapter 18. Tshiushuass

Chapter 19. Innu-White relations: From mutual respect to mistrust

Chapter 20. Alcohol didn’t solve my problems

Chapter 21. I wanted to die

Chapter 22. Some anthropological reflections



Glossary of Innu terms

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-80073-022-5 / 1800730225
ISBN-13 978-1-80073-022-9 / 9781800730229
Zustand Neuware
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