1st Edition
Reading Life with Gwich'in An Educational Approach
By Jan Peter Laurens Loovers
Copyright 2020
286 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
286 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
286 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book is based upon more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork and personal experiences with the Teetł’it Gwich’in community in northern Canada. The author provides insight into Gwich’in understandings of life as well as into historical and political processes that have taken place in the North. He outlines the development of an educational approach towards conducting ethnography and... Read more
PART I: INTRODUCTION TO AN EDUCATIONAL APPROACH. 1 Ecology, education, collaboration. 2 Trails to knowing. PART II: A SENTIENT HISTORY. 3 A growing world. 4 McDonald’s legacy, Gwich’in literacy. 5 Governing a land of resources. PART III: LOSING ELDERS, KEEPING LIFE GOING. 6 Education and language. 7 The healing land. PART IV: LIFE ON THE LAND. 8 Knowing wood. 9 Reading places and trails.
Biography
Jan Peter Laurens Loovers (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is Project Curator for the Arctic Exhibition at The British Museum (UK) and Honorary Research Fellow at University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK).
