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16%OFFHeather A. Howard (Ed.) - Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and Continuities - 9781554582600 - V9781554582600
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Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and Continuities

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Description for Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and Continuities Paperback. Collects the interdisciplinary studies of urban Aboriginal community and identity. This title demonstrates how comparative examinations of the diversity within and across urban Aboriginal experiences contribute to broader understandings of the relationship between Aboriginal people and the Canadian state. Editor(s): Howard, Heather A.; Proulx, Craig. Num Pages: 264 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSG; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390.
Since the 1970s, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rural-to-urban migration and the development of urban Aboriginal communities represent one of the most significant shifts in the histories and cultures of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. The essays in Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and Continuities are from contributors directly engaged in urban Aboriginal communities; they draw on extensive ethnographic research on and by Aboriginal people and their own lived experiences. The interdisciplinary studies of urban Aboriginal community and identity collected in this volume offer narratives of ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9781554582600
SKU
V9781554582600
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99-15

About Heather A. Howard (Ed.)
Heather A. Howard is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University and is affiliated faculty with the Centre for Aboriginal Initiatives at the University of Toronto. She co-edited, with Rae Bridgman and Sally Cole, Feminist Fields: Ethnographic Insights (1999) and, with Susan Applegate Krouse, Keeping the Campfires Going: Native Womenas Activism in Urban Areas (2009). ... Read more

Reviews for Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and Continuities
the spread of topics is considerable and their conceptual grounding offers potential for future theoretical development through comparative research. This is a valuable collection which effectively achieves its purpose of demonstrating the agency of urban Aboriginal communities, their diversity and the contribution of cultural innovations to contemporary urban indigeneity. - Roy Todd, University of Leeds, British Journal of Canadian ... Read more

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