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Title A kindly scrutiny of human nature : essays in honour of Richard Slobodin / Richard J. Preston, editor
Published Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (140 pages) : portraits
Contents Introduction / Richard J. Preston and Harvey A. Feit -- 1. Richard Slobodin's Ethnography and Human Nature / Richard J. Preston -- 2. Dick Slobodin: The Anthropology of a Divided Self / Sam Ajzenstat -- 3. Slobodin as Example: A Note on a Dialectics of Style / Kenneth Little -- 4. Writing against the Grain of Materialist Orthodoxy: Richard Slobodin and the Teetl'it Gwich'in / Robert Wishart and Michael Asch -- 5. Histories of the Past, Histories of the Future: The Committed Anthropologies of Richard Slobodin, Frank G. Speck, and Eleanor Leacock / Harvey A. Feit -- 6. Slobodin "among the Metis," 1938-98: Anthropologist, Scholar, Historian, and Fieldworker par excellence / Mary Black-Rogers -- 7. Richard Slobodin and the Creation of the Amerindian Rebirth Book / Antonia Mills -- 8. Richard Slobodin as Scholar of Societies / David J. Damas -- 9. Caribou Hunt / Richard Slobodin
Summary 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 Métis, 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 An unpublished paper about a 1930s caribou hunt in which he participated finishes the collection, giving Dick the last word
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Slobodin, Richard, 1915-2005.
SUBJECT Slobodin, Richard, 1915-2005 fast
Subject Ethnology -- Canada, Northern
Anthropologists -- Canada -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Anthropologists
Ethnology
Canada
Northern Canada
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Festschriften
Festschriften.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Slobodin, Richard, 1915-2005, honouree.
Preston, Richard J., 1931- editor.
Slobodin, Richard, 1915-2005.
ISBN 9781554581207
1554581206
9781554587681
1554587689
1282534416
9781282534414
9786612534416
6612534419
Other Titles Essays in honour of Richard Slobodin