A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature is 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 An unpublished paper about a 1930s caribou hunt in which he participated finishes the collection, giving Dick the last word.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, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 301
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9781554581207 9781554580408
- LCCN
- GN29
- LCCN Item number
- K46 2009eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (140 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00224468 (OCoLC)647922222 (CaOOCEL)433535
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 6
- INTRODUCTION 8
- 1 Richard Slobodin's Ethnography and Human Nature 18
- 2 Dick Slobodin: The Anthropology of a Divided Self 28
- 3 Slobodin as Example: A Note on a Dialectics of Style 32
- 4 Writing against the Grain of Materialist Orthodoxy: Richard Slobodin and the Teetl'it Gwich'in 40
- 5 Histories of the Past, Histories of the Future: The Committed Anthropologies of Richard Slobodin, Frank G. Speck, and Eleanor Leacock 52
- 6 Slobodin "among the Metis," 1938–98: Anthropologist, Scholar, Historian, and Fieldworker par excellence 84
- 7 Richard Slobodin and the Creation of the Amerindian Rebirth Book 96
- 8 Richard Slobodin as Scholar of Societies 110
- 9 Caribou Hunt 118
- RICHARD SLOBIN BIBLIOGRAPHY 138
- INDEX 140
- A 140
- B 140
- C 141
- D 141
- E 141
- F 141
- G 142
- H 142
- I 142
- J 143
- K 143
- L 143
- M 144
- N 144
- O 144
- P 144
- Q 145
- R 145
- S 145
- T 146
- U 147
- V 147
- W 147
- Y 147
