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"In August 1975 at Foxholm Lake on the reserve of the Chipewyan, a Northern Dene people, in the Northwest Territories of Canada, anthropologist Henry S. Sharp and two members of the Mission Band encountered a loon. Loons are prized for their meat and skin, so the two Chipewyan tried - thirty times - to kill it. The loon, in a brazen display of power, thwarted these attempts and in doing so revealed itself to be a "spirit." In this book, Sharp embarks on a narrative exploration of the Chipewyan culture that examines the nature of a reality within which wild animals are both persons and spirits. In an unforgettable journey through the symbolic universe and daily life of the Chipewyan of Mission, his work uses the context and meaning of the loon encounter to show how spirits are an actual and almost omnipresent aspect of life.". "To explain how the Chipewyan create and order the shared reality of their culture, Sharp develops a series of analytical metaphors that draw heavily on quantum mechanics. His central premise: reality is an indeterminate phenomenon created through the sharing of meaning between cultural beings. In support of this argument, Sharp examines such topics as the nature of time, power, gender, animals, memory, gossip, magical death, and the construction of meaning. Creatively argued and evocatively written, his work presents a compelling picture of one people engaged in the human struggle to create meaning."--BOOK JACKET.

Chipewyan Indians --- Chipewyan mythology. --- Chipewyan philosophy. --- Chepewyan Indians --- Dene Indians (Chipewyan) --- Athapascan Indians --- Indians of North America --- Mythology, Chipewyan --- Philosophy, Chipewyan --- Philosophy, Canadian --- Social life and customs. --- Northwest Territories --- Territoires du Nord-Ouest --- North West Territories --- NWT --- N.W.T. --- GNWT --- Government of the Northwest Territories --- Government of the N.W.T. --- Government of Northwest Territories --- Gouvernement des Territoires du Nord-Ouest --- Nunavut

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"Denesuline hunters range from deep in the boreal forest far into the tundra of northern Canada. Henry S. Sharp, a social anthropologist and ethnographer, spent several decades participating in fieldwork and observing hunts by this extended kin group. His daughter, Karyn Sharp, who is an archaeologist specializing in First Nations Studies and is Denesuline, also observed countless hunts. Over the years the father and daughter realized that not only their personal backgrounds but also their disciplinary specializations significantly affected how each perceived and understood their experiences with the Denesuline. In Hunting Caribou, Henry and Karyn Sharp attempt to understand and interpret their decades-long observations of Denesuline hunts through the multiple disciplinary lenses of anthropology, archaeology, and ethnology. Although questions and methodologies differ between disciplines, the Sharps' ethnography, by connecting these components, provides unique insights into the ecology and motivations of hunting societies. Themes of gender, women's labor, insects, wolf and caribou behavior, scale, mobility and transportation, and land use are linked through the authors' personal voice and experiences. This participant ethnography makes an important contribution to multiple fields in academe while simultaneously revealing broad implications for research, public policy, and First Nations politics"-- "Participant ethnography of the subsistence hunting practices of a band of Denesuline in the Northwestern Territories"--

HISTORY / Canada / General. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies. --- Human ecology --- Ethnology --- Hunting and gathering societies --- Chipewyan Indians --- Subsistence hunting --- Caribou hunting --- Chepewyan Indians --- Dene Indians (Chipewyan) --- Athapascan Indians --- Indians of North America --- Big game hunting --- Subsistence harvest of wildlife --- Subsistence use of wildlife --- Hunting --- Subsistence economy --- Wildlife utilization --- Food gathering societies --- Gathering and hunting societies --- Hunter-gatherers --- Hunting, Primitive --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Social life and customs. --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Northwest Territories --- Territoires du Nord-Ouest --- North West Territories --- NWT --- N.W.T. --- GNWT --- Government of the Northwest Territories --- Government of the N.W.T. --- Government of Northwest Territories --- Gouvernement des Territoires du Nord-Ouest --- Nunavut --- Environmental conditions.