Anthropology, public policy and native peoples in Canada

Dyck, Noel. (Added Author). Waldram, James B. (James Burgess) (Added Author).

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ISBN: 97807735096110 (bound) :
ISBN: 9780773509788 (pbk.) :
ISBN: 0773509615 (bound) :
ISBN: 077350978X (pbk.) :
Physical Description: print
viii, 362 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1993.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Abbreviations -- 1. Anthropology, public policies, and Native Peoples: an introduction to the issues -- Part One. Historical perspectives on Native policy issues - 2. The emergence of "Eskimo Status": an examination of the Eskimo Disk List System and its social consequences, 1925-1970 - 3. The Hawthorn Report: Its use in the making of Canadian Indian policy - 4. Northern development, impact assessment, and social change -- Part Two: The politics of anthropological research - 5. The politics of ethnography in the Canadian north - 6. The summer meddler: The image of the anthropologist as tool for Indigenous formulations of culture - 7. Some Native perspectives on anthropology and public policy - 8. "Telling it like it is"- Some dilemmas of Fourth World ethnography and advocacy -- Part Three: Anthropological involvement in Native policy issues - 9. Political considerations in health-related participatory research in northern Canada - 10. Anthropology and Aboriginal claims research - 11. Anthropology and Canadian native political organizations: past and future trends - 12. Some limits to advocacy anthropology in the Native Canadian context - 13. Customs, tradition, and the politics of culture: Aboriginal self-government in Canada - 15. Completing a circle: The Spirit Sings -- Contributors.