Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships

by Robert Brightman

Book Overview

Grateful Prey uncovers the interaction between magico-religious ideology and hunting strategies among the Asinsk?w?iniwak, or Rock Crees, of Northern Manitoba. Brightman maintains that subsistence strategies need to be analyzed in terms of the foragers' own ethnoecological categories and postulates, both sacred and secular, a position which poses a challenge to prevailing ecological and Marxist approaches to foraging societies and strategies. A major...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889771375
• ISBN13: 9780889771376
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: University of Regina Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"