"Keeping the Lakes' way" : : reburial and the re-creation of a moral world among an invisible people / / Paula Pryce

• Autore: Pryce Paula
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1999; ©1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Disciplina: 971.162004979
• Soggetto topico: Sinixt Indians - History; Sinixt Indians - Funeral customs and rites - British Columbia - Vallican; Cemeteries - British Columbia - Vallican
• Soggetto genere / forma: Livres numeriques.; e-books.; Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introductions: The Journey Home -- 2. Presence: Sinixt Interior Salish Ethnography, or the Contribution to Obscurity -- 3. The Latent Land: Towards a Lakes Diaspora -- 4. Competing Prophecies: The Case of the Vanishing Indian v. the Resurrection of the Ancestors -- 5. Emergence: Distress, Memory, and the Re-creation of Morality among an Invisible People -- 6. Afterthoughts on Here and Now -- App. 1. Selected Spelling Variations of 'Sinixt' -- App. 2. Selected Historical Sinixt Village and Resource Sites.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Virtually unknown of First Nations in Canada, the Arrow Lakes or Sinixt Interior Salish of the North American Columbia Plateau have been declared officially extinct. This book investigates why this circumstance came about and how contemporary Sinixt have responded."--Jacket.
• Titolo autorizzato: "Keeping the Lakes' way"
• ISBN: 1-281-99570-3; 9786611995706; 1-4426-7649-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910806858803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II