Comments on: Canadian Ethnographies About Non-indigenous People? http://www.anthroblog.tadmcilwraith.com/2010/09/16/canadian-ethnographies-about-non-indigenous-people/ For the Anthropology of British Columbia, Canada Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:48:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: qmackie http://www.anthroblog.tadmcilwraith.com/2010/09/16/canadian-ethnographies-about-non-indigenous-people/comment-page-1/#comment-335897 qmackie Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:31:36 +0000 http://www.anthroblog.tadmcilwraith.com/?p=1067#comment-335897 Just saw the “or Canada” qualifier.

The Hutterian people: ritual and rebirth in the evolution of communal life

Peter H. Stephenson

http://books.google.com/books?id=WM9yQgAACAAJ

I don’t know it for a fact, but as Charles suggests, there has been an awful lot of “applied ethnographic” work done around the HIV/AIDS issue, at needle exchanges, etc.

]]> By: Charles Menzies http://www.anthroblog.tadmcilwraith.com/2010/09/16/canadian-ethnographies-about-non-indigenous-people/comment-page-1/#comment-335881 Charles Menzies Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:31:10 +0000 http://www.anthroblog.tadmcilwraith.com/?p=1067#comment-335881 She is now at UBC in the women’s studies dept. It centers around a discursive analysis of a ‘myth’ about an indian princess and the settler miners (among other things. I did read it as a dissertation in our dept., but haven’t read the book to see how different it is or not. She also worked with Dara Culhane on a project with women in the downtown eastside of Vancouver

]]> By: Tad McIlwraith http://www.anthroblog.tadmcilwraith.com/2010/09/16/canadian-ethnographies-about-non-indigenous-people/comment-page-1/#comment-335879 Tad McIlwraith Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:36:20 +0000 http://www.anthroblog.tadmcilwraith.com/?p=1067#comment-335879 Thanks Quentin. I don’t know the book, but, judging from the title and UBC Press description it sounds quite worthwhile. -Tad

]]> By: qmackie http://www.anthroblog.tadmcilwraith.com/2010/09/16/canadian-ethnographies-about-non-indigenous-people/comment-page-1/#comment-335878 qmackie Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:31:11 +0000 http://www.anthroblog.tadmcilwraith.com/?p=1067#comment-335878 For the non-aboriginal ethnography, how about Leslie Robertson’s

Imagining Difference:
Legend, Curse, and Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town

http://www.ubcpress.ubc.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=4147

Which I understand is mainly about European settlers in and around Fernie. I have no idea if it is any good or useful for your class, but it does seem to be an ethnography by an Anthropologist of a non-indigenous, [and non-fishing] community.

]]> By: Tad McIlwraith http://www.anthroblog.tadmcilwraith.com/2010/09/16/canadian-ethnographies-about-non-indigenous-people/comment-page-1/#comment-335876 Tad McIlwraith Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:22:57 +0000 http://www.anthroblog.tadmcilwraith.com/?p=1067#comment-335876 One suggestion, via Facebook: “In the Shadow of the AntiChrist: The Old Believers of Alberta by David Scheffel (Thompson Rivers U), based on his Ph.D dissertation.

]]> By: Charles Menzies http://www.anthroblog.tadmcilwraith.com/2010/09/16/canadian-ethnographies-about-non-indigenous-people/comment-page-1/#comment-335868 Charles Menzies Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:43:02 +0000 http://www.anthroblog.tadmcilwraith.com/?p=1067#comment-335868 My own slightly larger version of this question is found on my Forests and Oceans for the Future blog: http://blogs.ubc.ca/ecoknow/

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