A kindly scrutiny of human nature : essays in honour of Richard Slobodin / Richard J. Preston, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Preston, Richard J., 1931-

Slobodin, Richard, 1915-2005.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slobodin, Richard, 1915-2005.

Slobodin, Richard.

Ethnology--Canada, Northern.

Ethnology.

Anthropologists--Canada--Biography.

Anthropologists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature is a collection of essays honouring Richard (Dick) Slobodin, one of the great anthropologists of the Canadian North. A short biography is followed by essays describing his formative thinking about human nature and human identities, his humanizing force in his example of living a moral, intellectual life, his discernment of people’s ability to make informed choices and actions, his freedom from ideological fashions, his writings about the Mackenzie District Métis, his determination to take peoples experience seriously, not metaphorically, and his thinking about social organization and kinship. Contributors include Sam Ajzenstat, Michael Asch, David J. Damas , Harvey A. Feig, Kenneth Little, Antonia Mills, Richard J. Preston, Mary Black Rogers, and Robert Wishar. An unpublished paper about a 1930s caribou hunt in which he participated finishes the collection, giving Dick the last word.

Contents:

Introduction / Richard J. Preston and Harvey A. Feit

1. Richard Slobodin's Ethnography and Human Nature / Richard J. Preston

2. Dick Slobodin: The Anthropology of a Divided Self / Sam Ajzenstat

3. Slobodin as Example: A Note on a Dialectics of Style / Kenneth Little

4. Writing against the Grain of Materialist Orthodoxy: Richard Slobodin and the Teetl'it Gwich'in / Robert Wishart and Michael Asch

5. Histories of the Past, Histories of the Future: The Committed Anthropologies of Richard Slobodin, Frank G. Speck, and Eleanor Leacock / Harvey A. Feit

6. Slobodin "among the Metis," 1938-98: Anthropologist, Scholar, Historian, and Fieldworker par excellence / Mary Black-Rogers

7. Richard Slobodin and the Creation of the Amerindian Rebirth Book / Antonia Mills

8. Richard Slobodin as Scholar of Societies / David J. Damas

9. Caribou Hunt / Richard Slobodin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612534416

9781554587681

1554587689

9781282534414

1282534416

9781554581207

1554581206

OCLC:

647922222