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Writing the Hamat?sa critically surveys more than two centuries worth of published, archival, and oral sources to trace the attempted prohibition, intercultural mediation, and ultimate survival of one of Canada's most iconic Indigenous ceremonies.

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…stands as a kind of history of anthropology…

-- Bruce Granville Miller, UBC * JACANZS Vol. 3 *

Aaron Glass has produced an important book.

-- Tony Kail, Anthropology Book Forum

Table of Contents

Foreword / Chief William Cranmer/T̓łlakwagila (ꞌNa̱mg̱is Nation)

Prologue: Points of Arrival and Departure

Introduction: From Writing Culture to the Intercultural History of Ethnography

1 A Complex Cannibal: Colonialism, Modernity and the Hamat̓sa

2 Discursive Cannibals:The Textual Dynamics of Settler Colonialism, 1786–1893

3 The Foundations of All Future Researches: The Work of Franz Boas and George Hunt, 1886–1966

4 Reading, Rewriting, and Writing Against: Changing Anthropological Theory, 1896–1997

5 From Index to Icon: (Auto)Biography and Popular Culture, 1941–2012

6 Reading Culture, Consuming Ethnography

Afterword: Between This World and That / Andy Everson/Tanis (K̕ómoks Nation)

Appendices

Glossary

Notes; References; Index

Writing the Hamatsa

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      Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
      Publication Date: 15/03/2022
      ISBN13: 9780774863780, 978-0774863780
      ISBN10: 0774863781
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Writing the Hamat?sa critically surveys more than two centuries worth of published, archival, and oral sources to trace the attempted prohibition, intercultural mediation, and ultimate survival of one of Canada's most iconic Indigenous ceremonies.

      Trade Review

      …stands as a kind of history of anthropology…

      -- Bruce Granville Miller, UBC * JACANZS Vol. 3 *

      Aaron Glass has produced an important book.

      -- Tony Kail, Anthropology Book Forum

      Table of Contents

      Foreword / Chief William Cranmer/T̓łlakwagila (ꞌNa̱mg̱is Nation)

      Prologue: Points of Arrival and Departure

      Introduction: From Writing Culture to the Intercultural History of Ethnography

      1 A Complex Cannibal: Colonialism, Modernity and the Hamat̓sa

      2 Discursive Cannibals:The Textual Dynamics of Settler Colonialism, 1786–1893

      3 The Foundations of All Future Researches: The Work of Franz Boas and George Hunt, 1886–1966

      4 Reading, Rewriting, and Writing Against: Changing Anthropological Theory, 1896–1997

      5 From Index to Icon: (Auto)Biography and Popular Culture, 1941–2012

      6 Reading Culture, Consuming Ethnography

      Afterword: Between This World and That / Andy Everson/Tanis (K̕ómoks Nation)

      Appendices

      Glossary

      Notes; References; Index

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