Celebrating the Donner prize nominees, the Toronto Star has published a short excerpt (maybe a series of consolidations?) of Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry by Widdowson and Howard. (I have discussed this book on the blog before. Albert Howard weighed in.) Phil Fontaine responds: The Donner Prize is supposed to reward “excellence and innovation in Canadian [...]
If you’ve been wondering what the fuss around Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry is all about, the National Post has published an excerpt. Its focus: traditional knowledge. (As always, the comments are as interesting as the article.) Oh, and an Australian ejournal of ‘social and political debate’ is arguing about the book too. Sphere: Related Content
Thursday, February 12, 2009
The review of Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry by Widdowson and Howard is generating discussion. See the comments in this previous post.
Albert Howard and Frances Widdowson offer a lengthy critique of Taiaiake Alfred’s review of their book Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry. The critique is embedded in the comments section of a previous post here on Fieldnotes. The first paragraph reads as follows: Taiaiake Alfred has a right to his opinion about our book, and we would [...]
Sunday, November 16, 2008
I don’t have time to formulate my own review right now … suffice it to say I have appreciated the frankness of Widdowson and Howard’s Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry. The questions they ask about aboriginal poverty, its reasons and solutions to it should be asked — even if (especially if) they generate widely disparate answers. [...]
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Charles R. Menzies’s edited collection Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource Management has been published by the University of Nebraska Press. The introduction to the book, written by Menzies and Caroline Butler, offers a very useful and usable summary of what traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is and the academic critiques of the concept. The book [...]
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Anthropologica, the journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA), has published a special issue devoted to research on gender and sexuality. The table of contents lists these articles: “The New Anthropology of Sexuality” (Andrew P. Lyons and Harriet D. Lyons) “The Power of Excess: Royal Incest and the Ptolemaic Dynasty” (Sheila L. Ager) “‘Bisexuality’ and [...]
Saturday, November 4, 2006
A new book has been written by Robin Ridington and Jillian Ridington about their fieldwork among the Dunne-za Athapaskans of northeastern British Columbia. Titled ‘When you Sing It Now, Just Like New: First Nations Poetics, Voices, and Representations, the book is something of a career retrospective. It complements Robin Ridington’s earlier monographs, Trail to Heaven [...]
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Former Yukon Premier and now critic of the BC Treaty Process Tony Penikett has some interesting comments about why treaties are taking so long to complete in British Columbia. As noted in the Vancouver Sun, Penikett says: Treaty negotiators on all sides are careerists or hourly paid professionals … They have no fear of unemployment [...]
Thursday, September 8, 2005
Daniel Oppenheimer has written a useful and interesting article on David Samuels’s recent ethnography Putting a Song on Top of It: Expression and Identity on the San Carlos Apache Reservation for the Valley Advocate, a news and arts weekly published in Easthampton, MA. The article is extensive, reviewing the book and, perhaps of greater interest [...]
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