Anthropology, public policy, and native peoples in Canada.

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These essays provide a comprehensive evaluation of past, present and future forms of anthropological involvement in public policy issues that affect native peoples in Canada, addressing social, economic and political marginality, and advocacy work by anthropologists.

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ISBN:

9780773563711
0773563717
077350978X
0773509615

Description:

viii, 362 pages : illustrations

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Anthropology, public policy, and native peoples / Noel Dyck and James B. Waldram
The emergence of Eskimo status / Derek G. Smith
The Hawthorn report / Sally M. Weaver
Northern development, impact assessment, and social change / Peter J. Usher
The politics of ethnography in the Canadian North / Julie Cruikshank
The summer meddler / Peggy Martin Brizinski
Some native perspectives on anthropology and public policy / Ron Ignace, George Speck, and Renee Taylor
Telling it like it is / Noel Dyck
Political considerations in health-related participatory research in Northern Canada / John D. O'Neil ... and others
Anthropology and aboriginal claims research / Peter Douglas Elias
Anthropology and Canadian native political organizations / Joe Sawchuk
Some limits to advocacy anthropology in the native Canadian context / James B. Waldram
Customs, tradition, and the politics of culture / Colin H. Scott
Completing a circle / Julia D. Harrison

LCCN:

94162604

Control Number:

3272081

Other Authors:

Dyck, Noel, editor
Waldram, James B. (James Burgess), editor

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