Reading Life with Gwich'in

This book is based upon more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork and personal experiences with the Teetl'it Gwich'in community in northern Canada. The author provides insight into Gwich'in understandings of life as well as into historical and political processes that have taken place in the North.

Autorentext

Jan Peter Laurens Loovers (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is Project Curator for the Arctic Exhibition at The British Museum (UK) and Honorary Research Fellow at University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK).

Inhalt

PART I: INTRODUCTION TO AN EDUCATIONAL APPROACH. 1 Ecology, education, collaboration. 2 Trails to knowing. PART II: A SENTIENT HISTORY. 3 A growing world. 4 McDonald's legacy, Gwich'in literacy. 5 Governing a land of resources. PART III: LOSING ELDERS, KEEPING LIFE GOING. 6 Education and language. 7 The healing land. PART IV: LIFE ON THE LAND. 8 Knowing wood. 9 Reading places and trails.