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Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships
- R. Brightman
- Art
- 22 January 1995
The interaction between religious beliefs and hunting practices among the Asiniskawidiniwak or Rock Crees of northern Manitoba is the focus of Robert Brightman's study. This foraging society, he…
Forget Culture: Replacement, Transcendence, Relexification
- R. Brightman
- Art
- 1 November 1995
In his article "How Many Revolutions Can a Linguist Live Through?" Hill (1980:74) thus reflected on one by-product of the generativist revolution in linguistics, the critique of the taxonomic…
The Sexual Division of Foraging Labor: Biology, Taboo, and Gender Politics
- R. Brightman
- EconomicsComparative Studies in Society and History
- 1 October 1996
If women's biology is their economic destiny, nowhere is this destiny more inexorable than in anthropological representations of the sexual division of foraging labor. Physically weak, immobilized by…
The Windigo in the Material World
- R. Brightman
- Psychology
- 23 January 1988
Reconsideration of documentary evidence indicates that the Subarctic Algonquian windigo complex was of probable prehistoric inception, that a cor- relative psychiatric disorder entailing…
"The Orders of the Dreamed": George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823
- Donald B. Smith, Jennifer S. H. Brown, R. Brightman
- History
- 1 April 1988
Among Anglo-Canadian fur traders of the early nineteenth century, George Nelson stands out for his interest in the life and ways of the native people he encountered. In 1823 Nelson was serving as a…
Acaoohkiwina and Acimowina: Traditional Narratives of the Rock Cree Indians
- R. Brightman
- Geography
- 1 February 1990
"The Orders of the Dreamed": George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823
- C. Vecsey, Jennifer S. H. Brown, R. Brightman
- Linguistics
- 24 January 1991
Hierarchy and conflict in mutual being
- R. Brightman
- EconomicsHAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
- 1 June 2013
Comment on SAHLINS, Marshall. 2013. What kinship is—and is not. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
PRIMITIVISM IN MISSINIPPI CREE HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
- R. Brightman
- Political Science
- 1 March 1990
The Missinippi Crees of northwestern Manitoba preserve traditions of two primitive anthropomorphic races' chronologically more ancient and culturally less complex than contemporary humans. Dunng the…
Voicing the ancestors II
- R. Brightman, P. Strong, A. King, R. Handler
- Art, HistoryHAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
- 1 July 2017
This is the second Forum in which anthropologists give voice to a disciplinary ancestral figure of their choice. The goal is to bring to our attention the wisdom of anthropologists who were prominent…
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