Description
Book SynopsisExamines how myths and narratives about the past have enabled a Northern Athabaskan community to understand and confront challenges and opportunities in the present. This book focuses on the special power of the past for the Chilcotin people of the Nemiah Valley Indian Reserve.
Trade Review"Intertwining anthropological and linguistic theory, translated Chilcotin passages, and engaging discussions of actual experience in the field,
Reserve Memories offers much insight into the relationship between academic outsider and community insider. . . .
Reserve Memories makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how First Nations communities conceptualize language and history."—Susan Roy,
The Canadian Historical Review"The combination of ethnographic contextualization, detailed text analysis, and theoretical integration make the work an exemplary contribution to the study of North American Indian language use and to linguistic anthropology more broadly."—Jane Hill,
Journal of Anthropological Research"This succinct and eloquent treatise warrants careful reading. . . . I envy Dinwoodie's linguistic acumen, and hope that he will return to the Chilcotin in the future and update us on the trajectory of Chilcotin myth and historical narration."—Antonia Mills,
Anthropological Linguistics
