| A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature: Essays in Honour of Richard Slobodin Contributor(s): Preston, Richard J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1554580404 ISBN-13: 9781554580408 Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press OUR PRICE: $84.79 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2009 Annotation: "A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature" is a collection of essays honouring Richard (Dick) Slobodin, one of the great anthropologists of the Canadian North. A short biography is followed by essays describing his formative thinking about human nature and human identities, his humanizing force in his example of living a moral, intellectual life, his discernment of people's ability to make informed choices and actions, his freedom from ideological fashions, his writings about the Mackenzie District Metis, his determination to take peoples experience seriously, not metaphorically, and his thinking about social organization and kinship. An unpublished paper about a 1930s caribou hunt in which he participated finishes the collection, giving Dick the last word. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Biography & Autobiography | Social Scientists & Psychologists - Psychology | Ethnopsychology |
| Dewey: 301 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.75 lbs) 145 pages |
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| Publisher Description: A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature is a collection of essays honouring Richard (Dick) Slobodin, one of the great anthropologists of the Canadian North. A short biography is followed by essays describing his formative thinking about human nature and human identities, his humanizing force in his example of living a moral, intellectual life, his discernment of people's ability to make informed choices and actions, his freedom from ideological fashions, his writings about the Mackenzie District M tis, his determination to take peoples experience seriously, not metaphorically, and his thinking about social organization and kinship. Contributors include Sam Ajzenstat, Michael Asch, David J. Damas, Harvey A. Feig, Kenneth Little, Antonia Mills, Richard J. Preston, Mary Black Rogers, and Robert Wishar. An unpublished paper about a 1930s caribou hunt in which he participated finishes the collection, giving Dick the last word. |
Contributor Bio(s): Preston, Richard J.: - Richard J. Preston is nominally retired (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, McMaster University) and hopes to continue his forty-plus-year span of sojourning and work with the people of the James Bay region, focusing on the cultural dimensions of globalization and tracing the emergence of the Cree concept of community. His publications include Cree Narrative: Expressing the Personal Meanings of Events, second edition (2002), and a great many papers. |