Spring 2014

ISER Books 2014

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History and Renewal of Labrador’s Inuit-Métis edited by John C. Kennedy isbn 978-1-894725-15-6 | paperback | 224 pages | $24.95

This collection of essays presents new research on the archaeology, history, and contemporary adaptations of Inuit-Métis of central and southeastern Labrador from Lake Melville south to Chateau Bay. It reports on results from “Understanding the Past to Build the Future,” a Community-University Research Alliance (CURA) funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Contributing authors include veteran Labrador Studies specialists as well as emerging scholars. Many of their findings challenge longstanding assumptions about Labrador’s Aboriginal history. The editor, ethnographer and historical anthropologist John C. Kennedy, is author of several books, including Holding the Line: Ethnic Boundaries in a Northern Labrador Community.

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Bringing Home Animals:

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Bringing Home Animals details what the author learned as a result of travelling and working with Iinuu (Cree) hunters from Mistissini in Northern Quebec in 1968-69, providing a rich illustration of subsistence hunting in an Indigenous territory. The second edition builds on the original argument by providing an extensive update about the current situation in the region, and adds new illustrative material including stunning colour photographs. Bringing Home Animals explores the way of life of the Mistissini Iinuu, including the ecology of the hunting grounds, the organization of social space, rites of hunting divination, religious ideology, and ritual relations between hunters and animals. It is relevant to current work in Indigenous Studies, alternative economies and food sovereignty, traditional or local ecological knowledge, religious studies, space and place, and animal studies.

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