Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.
Loading... Maps and Dreams (original 1981; edition 1983)by Hugh Brody
Work InformationMaps and Dreams: Indians and the British Columbia Frontier by Hugh Brody (1981)
None Loading...
Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Brody is that particular breed of anthropologist who deserves special mention for the respect he shows to the people whose story he tells. This is an excellent account of indigenous people living in their traditional, and in the modern world. The particular trigger for this study was the imminent construction of a oil/gas pipeline through their traditional hunting territories in Canada's West. In undertaking this work Brody unfolds the question of what is a viable hunting territory, and how the indigenous peoples manage their land alongside modern urban hunters. At the same time there is a profound insight into the dynamics of the groups he lived and hunted with. This is a raw account of the destruction of indigenous culture and ways of life, but it's also a testiment to the resilience of that culture. ( ) A very moving examination of a way of life under threat from the continuing White settlement and commercial expansion and exploitation of natural resources in northeast British Columbia, Canada. Brody's insight is coloured by his 18 month sojourn with the First Nation bands of the area. The chapters alternate between his beautifully and respectfully written accounts of various key moments in the annual season, with relevant essays exploring in some detail the different aspects of the historic betrayals and increasing pressures and restrictions on the Indians' way of living on their own land. An early chapter retells a hunting trip to the Bluestone area. The dreams of the hunters play their part in guiding the itinerary, and the soul of these men and women is conveyed to the reader with considerable art and delicacy by Hugh Brody. Occasionally becomes a touch dry with some of the extensive detail covering the Indian economy , but on the whole the book is very informative and written with passion and sensitivity for the subject. I now plan on reading Brody's 'The Other Side Of Eden'. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to Publisher Series
The Canadian sub-arctic is a world of forest, prairie and muskeg; of rainbow trout, moose, and caribou; of Indian hunters and trappers. It is also a world of boomtowns and bars, oil rigs and seismic soundings; of white energy speculators, ranchers and sports hunters. Hugh Brody came to this dual wold with the job of 'mapping' the lands of northwest British Columbia as well as the way of life of a small group of Beaver Indians with a viable hunting economy living in the path of a projected oil pipeline. Maps and Dreams is his account of an extraordinary 18-month journey through the world of a people who have no intention of vanishing into the past. Brody's powerful commentary retraces the history of the ever-expanding white frontier, from the first eighteenth-century explorer to the wildest corporate energy dreams of the present day. No library descriptions found. |
Current DiscussionsNonePopular covers
Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)971.1History and Geography North America Canada British ColumbiaLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |