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- catalog abstract ""In an incisive and wide-ranging critique of ethno-history and historical anthropology, Michael E. Harkin develops an innovative approach to understanding the profound cultural changes experienced during the past century by the Heiltsuks (Bella Bella), a Northwest Coast Indian group. Between 1880 and 1920, the Heiltsuks changed from one of the most traditional and aggressive groups on the Northwest Coast to paragons of Victorian virtues. Why and how did this dramatic transformation occur? These questions, Harkin contends, can best be answered by tracing the changing views the Heiltsuks had of themselves and of their past as they encountered colonial powers." "Rejecting many of the common methods and assumptions of ethnohistorians as unwittingly Eurocentric or simplistic, Harkin argues that the multiple perspectives, motives, and events constituting the Heiltsuks' world and history can be productively conceived of as dialogues, ongoing series of culturally embedded communicative acts that presuppose previous acts and constrain future ones. Historical transformations in three of these dialogues, centering on the body, material goods, and concepts of the soul, are examined in detail."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10279327.
- catalog coverage "British Columbia History Sources.".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description ""In an incisive and wide-ranging critique of ethno-history and historical anthropology, Michael E. Harkin develops an innovative approach to understanding the profound cultural changes experienced during the past century by the Heiltsuks (Bella Bella), a Northwest Coast Indian group. Between 1880 and 1920, the Heiltsuks changed from one of the most traditional and aggressive groups on the Northwest Coast to paragons of Victorian virtues. Why and how did this dramatic transformation occur? These questions, Harkin contends, can best be answered by tracing the changing views the Heiltsuks had of themselves and of their past as they encountered colonial powers." "Rejecting many of the common methods and assumptions of ethnohistorians as unwittingly Eurocentric or simplistic, Harkin argues that the multiple perspectives, motives, and events constituting the Heiltsuks' world and history can be productively conceived of as dialogues, ongoing series of culturally embedded communicative acts that presuppose previous acts and constrain future ones. Historical transformations in three of these dialogues, centering on the body, material goods, and concepts of the soul, are examined in detail."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Heiltsuk Language and Orthography -- 1. The Nineteenth-Century Heiltsuks -- 2. Contemporary Heiltsuk Contexts -- 3. Narrative, Time, and the Lifeworld -- 4. Contact Narratives -- 5. Dialectic and Dialogue -- 6. Bodies -- 7. Souls -- 8. Goods -- Conclusion: Worlds in Collision.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-191) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 195 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Heiltsuks.".
- catalog identifier "080322379X (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Heiltsuks.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington,".
- catalog relation "Heiltsuks.".
- catalog spatial "British Columbia History Sources.".
- catalog spatial "British Columbia.".
- catalog subject "971.1/004979 20".
- catalog subject "E99.H45 H37 1997".
- catalog subject "Ethnohistory British Columbia.".
- catalog subject "Heiltsuk Indians History Sources.".
- catalog subject "Heiltsuk Indians Missions.".
- catalog subject "Heiltsuk Indians Social life and customs.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Heiltsuk Language and Orthography -- 1. The Nineteenth-Century Heiltsuks -- 2. Contemporary Heiltsuk Contexts -- 3. Narrative, Time, and the Lifeworld -- 4. Contact Narratives -- 5. Dialectic and Dialogue -- 6. Bodies -- 7. Souls -- 8. Goods -- Conclusion: Worlds in Collision.".
- catalog title "The Heiltsuks : dialogues of culture and history on the Northwest Coast / Michael E. Harkin.".
- catalog type "text".