| At Home with the Bella Coola Indians: T. F. McIlwraith's Field Letters, 1922-24 Contributor(s): Barker, John (Editor), Cole, Douglas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0774809795 ISBN-13: 9780774809795 Publisher: UBC Press OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Canada - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies |
| Dewey: 971.110 |
| LCCN: 2003374445 |
| Physical Information: 224 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Between 1922 and 1924, the Canadian anthropologist T. F. Mcllwraith, author of the classic ethnography The Bella Coola Indians (1948), spent eleven months living among the people of the Nuxalk First Nation. This book is a collection of essays and letters that Mcllwraith wrote during this time and offers rare insight into the Nuxalk culture and their struggle to survive in the face of massive depopulation, loss of traditional lands, and the efforts of the Canadian government to ban the potlatch. |