A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature: Essays in Honour of Richard Slobodin - Softcover

Richard J. Preston (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554585708 ISBN 13: 9781554585700

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2020

Synopsis

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 Mã©tis, 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 An unpublished paper about a 1930s caribou hunt in which he participated finishes the collection, giving Dick the last word.

About this title

About the Author

Richard J. Preston is nominally retired (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, McMaster University) and hopes to continue his forty-plus-year span of sojourning and work with the people of the James Bay region, focusing on the cultural dimensions of globalization and tracing the emergence of the Cree concept of community. His publications include Cree Narrative: Expressing the Personal Meanings of Events, second edition (2002), and a great many papers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1554585708
• ISBN 13: 9781554585700
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 145