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Migration as an instrument of cultural change is an undeniable feature of the archaeological record. Yet reliable methods of identifying migration are not always accessible. In Athapaskan Migrations, authors R. G. Matson and Martin P. R. Magne use a variety of methods to identify and describe the arrival of the Athapaskan-speaking Chilcotin Indians in west central British Columbia. By contrasting two similar geographic areas—using the parallel direct historical approach—the authors define this aspect of Athapaskan culture. They present a sophisticated model of Northern Athapaskan migrations based on extensive archaeological, ethnographic, and dendrochronological research. A synthesis of 25 years of work, Athapaskan Migrations includes detailed accounts of field research in which the authors emphasize ethnic group identification, settlement patterns, lithic analysis, dendrochronology, and radiocarbon dating. Their theoretical approach will provide a blueprint for others wishing to establish the ethnic identity of archaeological materials. Chapter topics include basic methodology and project history; settlement patterns and investigation of both the Plateau Pithouse and British Columbia Athapaskan Traditions; regional surveys and settlement patterns; excavated Plateau Pithouse Tradition and Athapaskan sites and their dating; ethnic identification of recovered material; the Chilcotin migration in the context of the greater Pacific Athapaskan, Navajo, and Apache migrations; and summaries and results of the excavations. The text is abundantly illustrated with more than 70 figures and includes access to convenient online appendixes. This substantial work will be of special importance to archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists, and scholars in Athapaskan studies and Canadian First Nation studies. ... Read more

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Besides being sources of food, plants provided heat, shelter, transportation, clothing, implements, nets, ropes and containers - the necessities of life - for the First Peoples of British Columbia and adjacent territories. They also made good decorations and ornaments, scents, cleansing agents, insect repellents, and many other items. ... Read more

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A good catalogue
Just doesn't tell you how anyone processed anything, nor any mention, naturally, of which ones were used for... er... hygiene. Elegant & informative... only to a point.

A must for Basketry Harvesting!!!
I've got to say when I was looking for a book to help me harvest plants and such for basketry making I would have never come across this book if it wasn't for my sister-in-Law.She told me that she had this great book about plants, history, etc. of the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Canada that might be helpful.I bought it hoping it might help.Well I've got the book and its perfect!The author did a wonderful job in discription of the plants, and their uses and she went on to other things that are very useful in basketry!I would recomend this book for anyone wanting to harvest plants for basketry.I would also recomend that the sellers of this book make it more available for those into basketry, not only because of the plants, but also the history of basketry!

Ethnobotany gem
Nancy Turner's book on plant uses by the First Peoples of British Columbia is a treasure house of ancient knowledge:how the plants of the Pacific Northwest were used by the original inhabitants.In an aboriginal technology, plants were used in almost every aspect of life: housing, clothing, transportation, weapons, fishing lines, basketry--all depended on skillful manipulation of plant materials. Organized by plant group, each plant's uses are discussed.The book will appeal to craft workers as much as anthropologists and other students of native woods lore because the methods of preparation are included. ... Read more

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The years between 1922 and 1961, often referred to as the "Dark Ages of Northwest Coast art," have largely been ignored by art historians, and dismissed as a period of artistic decline. Tales of Ghosts compellingly reclaims this era, arguing that it was instead a critical period during which the art played an important role in public discourses on the status of First Nations people in Canadian society.

Hawker’s insightful examination focuses on the complex functions that Northwest Coast objects, such as the ubiquitous totem pole, played during the period. He demonstrates how these objects asserted the integrity and meaningfulness of First Nations identities, while simultaneously resisting the intent and effects of assimilation enforced by the Canadian government’s denial of land claims, its ban of the potlatch, and its support of assimilationist education.

Those with an interest in First Nations and Canadian history and art history, anthropology, museology, and post-colonial studies will be delighted by the publication of this major contribution to their fields. ... Read more

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Save the rainforest-not a question but a statement of fact. What good environmentalist would ever dispute it? Bruce Braun does; he goes so far as to ask, what is the rainforest? Who defines it? He examines the various practices-social, discursive and political-through which Canada's West Coast forests have been given meaning and made the site of intense political and ideological struggle. Departing from other work on environmental politics that assume the "forest" is a constant, The Intemperate Rainforest traces the way West Coast landscapes have been viewed and controlled by explorers, foresters, environmentalists, artists, scientists, adventure travelers, and Native peoples.

In 1993, dramatic political protests over logging in Clayoquot Sound in British Columbia propelled Canada's temperate rainforests onto the global stage. Celebrities and rock bands joined protests that, with over eight hundred arrests, were some of the largest acts of civil disobedience in Canadian history. Moving between these events and the histories and practices that produced these forest spaces, Braun reveals a complex postcolonial landscape in which a conventional politics of wilderness preservation is found lacking.

Bringing environmental studies into conversation with poststructuralist theory and postcolonial studies leads to a dynamic understanding of the forest as a historically contingent, politically charged object. Braun demonstrates how constructions of the forest are inextricably entangled with culture, race, nation, class, and colonialism in ways that trouble conventional approaches to nature and politics. Often portrayed as pristine landscape, he shows the forest to be an intensely cultural space inseparable from the primitivist fantasies, scientific discourses, and indigenous knowledges that constitute it. Displacing the language of wilderness, Braun proposes understanding the forest as a hybrid object that cannot be assigned to either "nature" or "culture" and also cannot be understood apart from the relations of power that infuse it.

Bruce Braun is assistant professor of geography at the University of Minnesota. He is the coeditor of Re-making Reality: Nature at the Millennium (1998) and Social Nature: Theory, Practice, and Politics (2001). ... Read more

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Provocative, fascinating
I taught this book in a senior seminar (4th-yr undergraduate) Environmental Anthropology course in 2003-04.I was a little worried about assigning it b/c the theory can be very dense, but it turned out to be one of the more popular books in the course, full of ideas that students kept referring back to and using in their term papers.Because each of the chapters looks at the idea of the "forest" (and the processes through which it has been produced) from a range of perspectives, it's a fun book to teach in a seminar setting -- it can be approached from a lot of different angles, and is almost inherently provocative of debate.And it has great illustrations -- all of my students were "fooled" by the pseudo-satellite photos that Braun presents and goes on to deconstruct brilliantly. ... Read more

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The book deals mainly with the bicultural identities of young Asian people at school in Birmingham (UK) and Vancouver. The first chapter discusses the history, religion and culture of the people from the Indian sub-continent. The remaining chapters feature analysis and discussion of the data obtained through interviews with young people, parents, teachers and community leaders. The author's previous publications include "The Cultural Context of Thinking" (NFER) and, edited jointly, "The Cognitive Development of the Indian Child", among numerous articles on multicultural matters. ... Read more

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Okanagan Odyssey is a quirky and lyrical examination of British Columbias Okanagan Valley. Sticking to the backroads and byways, Gayton gently pokes and prods local ecosystems, histories, vineyards and people. From Osoyoos in the south to Armstrong at the head of the Valley, the author revels in the biological and social diversity while sampling local wines and fruit along the way. In his unique version of wine pairing, Gayton matches up local books and landscapes with local vintages, giving terroir a whole new meaning. An ecologist by profession, Gayton deftly negotiates the tension between the Okanagan that is home to many endangered species and ecosystems, and the same Okanagan that is a mecca for developers and urban refugees. Okanagan Odyssey is not a travel guide, but represents travel writing at its idiosyncratic best.

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The development of University Midwifery EducationPrograms (UMEPs) has been a key component of themidwifery professionalization process in Ontario andBritish Columbia. The choice to develop UMEPs has seta standard for professional midwifery training. The goal of this study is to highlight the genderedstruggles of midwifery, as a female dominatedand historically marginalized occupational group, inits attempt to integrate into pre-existinghierarchies of the university structure. Specificchallenges of this process include tensions aroundinter-professional collaboration and faculty sharingwith dominant disciplines such as Health Sciencesand/or Medicine,enculturation of masculine/feminineprofessional characteristics, struggles to valuepracticum learning components, visibility/obscuritywithin the university, struggles for achievingdiversity in the student/client population, gendereddimensions of earnings potential and labourim/mobility. Similarly located marginalized groupsattempting integration into a university structureare likely to experience similar exclusionarymeasures related to factors including gender,sexuality, ethnicity and race. ... Read more

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This Masters degree thesis looks at the family oriented, holistic approach used by a residential treatment centre for alcohol and other drug addictions for Canadian First Nations in central British Columbia. Aftercare following treatment is sadly lacking in so many of the communities treatment clients return to. Treatment centre staff and community workers share the belief that more can be done to help clients change their lives.The research was designed and carried out by and for the First Nations peoples in an effort to share experience and gather wisdom to find creative ways to meet the needs of the returning treatment clients and particularly the needs of community workers earnestly trying to lend their assistance. Communities are often remote, isolated, lack resources and are struggling to overcome enormous obstacles.Recommendations for significant changes are made that will see greater focus on aftercare as part of the continuum of care along the journey of recovery. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Forest Ecology and Management, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Hybrid poplar plantations offer opportunities for enhancing carbon sinks, but accurate assignment of carbon credits requires accurate estimation of the amount of carbon stored in poplar biomass. Here we present individual-tree bole and branch biomass equations derived for Populus trichocarpa Torr. and GrayxP. deltoides Marsh. hybrids from plantations in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Trees ranged in age from 4 to 13 years old and were planted at a density of 1111stemsha^-^1. Equations were applied to similar short-rotation intensive-culture plantations near or at rotation age to derive estimates of aboveground leafless biomass production and amount of carbon sequestered. After 12 years, predicted aboveground leafless biomass accumulation ranged from 9.2 to 13.6Mgha^-^1year^-^1; predicted bole biomass accumulation ranged from 7.5 to 11.3Mgha^-^1year^-^1. Total carbon in aboveground leafless biomass at age 12 ranged from 51.2 to 75.7Mgha^-^1. Three of the stands reached 14 years of age prior to harvest. Predicted carbon content of aboveground leafless biomass at 14 years of age ranged from 73.7 to 88.7Mgha^-^1. 1. ... Read more

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Publishers from 31 independent presses talk about how they came to publishing and why they stayed (or left), the mistakes they made, thier relationships with authors, the problems of growth, definitions of success, why they do or do not seek grants, their relationships with distributors, bookstores, New York and Toronto and each other.

More than a directory, "Publishing Lives" presents these publishers as the spiritual heirs of the great ninteenth-century founders of the New York houses. It provides a picture of nonacademic intellectual and literary life in North America at the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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substantial contribution to understanding nw mentality
I enjoyed reading Jerry Gold's lively book of interviews. It is hard to understand how anybody could be so silly as to start a small press.What impressed me however was to see the range and depth and the money that can be made by publishing cook books, especially.You get a good cross-section of the intellectual and non-intellectual milieu of the northwest -- with all its paranoia, its utopianism, its peculiar optimism.I especially liked the interviews with Jean-Louis Brindamour, David Brewster, Dan Levant, and some of the older figures, whose interviews span decades, and give a sense of whole lives.Some of the younger people interviewed, especially if they grew up exclusively in the northwest, don't have as much to say.The book seems especially good from the viewpoint of understanding what makes publishers tick, psychologically.I liked the book and I'd personally rate it a ten, but I think the average book buyer might be a bit baffled by the reason for its existence.I see it as a very good oral history of a very interesting profession. ... Read more

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Millennium was an American thriller-horror-drama television series, created by Chris Carter after the success of his previous television series, The X-Files. Millennium aired on the Fox Network in the United States from the fall of 1996 to the spring of 1999. Three full seasons of the series were produced, totaling 67 individual episodes. Each season of the series had its own distinct style and unique elements as a result of the regularly shifting executive producers who supervised its creative process. All of the episodes were broadcast and produced by the Fox network. The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, though most episodes were set in or around Seattle, Washington. The series theme music was composed by Mark Snow who also had created the series theme music for The X-Files. The story arc is set during the years leading up to the year 2000. The plot line followed the investigations of an ex-FBI Special agent Frank Black, into serial murderers, which were often involved with both the supernatural and a sub-governmental authority known as the Millennium Group and their prophecies for an oncoming apocalypse. ... Read more

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British Columbia is celebrated as Canada’s principal centre of audiovisual production. Its billion-dollar industry trails behind only California and New York, the most well-established film production sites on the continent. Prior to the mid-1970s, however, British Columbia had little in the way of film production that could properly be called an industry.

This timely book recounts the story of British Columbia's rapid rise from relative obscurity in the film world to its current status as "Hollywood North." Mike Gasher positions the industry as a model for commercial film production in the twenty-first century -- one strongly shaped by a perception of cinema as a medium, not of culture, but of regional industrial development. Addressing the specific economic and geographic factors that contribute to the province’s success, such as the low Canadian dollar and BC’s proximity to Los Angeles, Gasher also considers the broader implications of the increasingly widespread trend towards location service production on national cinema and cultural production.

Hollywood North is an important book that brings into focus the tension between globalization and localization in the film industry. It will have great appeal to those with an interest in debates on Canadian national cinema, the notion of cinema as industry, and the highly nuanced relationship between cinema and place. ... Read more

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Global Television Network (more commonly called Global TV or just Global) is a Canadian English language privately owned television network. It is owned by Canwest Media Inc., a division of Canwest which is headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Throughout the 1990s, it dominated primetime ratings in key markets such as southern Ontario, B.C. and Quebec, but had limited reach in certain areas such as Alberta until 2000. ... Read more

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Several years ago, Paula Wild spent a month in the Bella Coola Valley. Afterward, she couldn't get the place out of her mind, and it ended up hugely impacting her life. She spent the next few years travelling back and forth between the comparatively bustling metropolis of her hometown of Courtenay, British Columbia and the rugged wilds of Bella Coola, interviewing residents and unearthing the history of this unique and unforgettable place. One River, Two Cultures is the result: a remarkable story of human endurance and of a people's relationship with the raw, physical landscape around them. Starting with the prehistory of the Nuxalk First Nations, Wild documents the arrival and impact of fur traders, explorers, gold seekers, the Norwegians who settled the valley in 1894, and the rough and ready mix of "outsiders" who embraced the challenges of living in a remote wilderness area.
One River, Two Cultures is a well-researched history told in an accessible, conversational style from the point of view of a visitor utterly swept away by the natural beauty of the Bella Coola Valley and the friendliness of its full-time residents. Illustrated with black and white archival photographs, as well as contemporary images, this book will take you to a place that is both striking in beauty and rich in culture. ... Read more

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A superbly crafted regional history
One River Two Cultures: A History Of The Bella Coola Valley is a thoroughly researched historical account told in a friendly, narrative style of the beautiful Bella Coola Valley deep within the central coast wilderness of British Columbia. Black-and-white photographs illustrate this chronicle, which tells of the Nuxalkmc people whose culture was heavily intertwined with the natural and spiritual world; the drastic changes that came about when gold-seekers, traders, missionaries and a group of Norwegian settlers came; to modern-day conflicts concerning the land and the extent to which its resources should be consumed. Award-winning writer Paula Wild gathers the rich and complex story of the valley and the people who called it home into a smoothly flowing whole, that absorbs the reader from cover to cover. A superbly crafted regional history.

Bella Coola Valley
If you are interested in learning about a remote area of the BCCoast the book "One River, Two Cultures" is a good one to start with. I have visited the Bella Coola Valley and the author does a good job describing the natural surroundings of the Valley and the two cultures which exist there. The author includes conversations she had with current residents of Bella Coola who know the Valley well. These converstations are benificial in understanding the Valley.

This book flows well and is an easy read. I would recommend it to anyone who is planning to visit Bella Coola, has visited the Valley already or just wants to learn more about a fascinating region of British Columbia. ... Read more

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How and why have teen mothers become scapegoats for social anxieties? How do schools respond to these stigmatized students in their midst? And, in those rare schools attempting to form more inclusive settings for teen mothers, what helps or hinders success? These issues are explored in Pregnant with Meaning, which links an ethnographic study of two schools to the wider North American political and economic context. Mindful of myriad, shifting power relations within the research setting, Deirdre M. Kelly scrutinizes her own practices as a participant observer and contributes new knowledge in the areas of sexuality education, detracking curriculum, and the politics of representation. Against the prevailing neoliberal/moral conservative consensus, she develops a critical feminist argument for integrating teen mothers and rethinking school and classroom practices. ... Read more

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Fun reading for a baby boomer that grew up there...
This is a definite fun read. If you grew up in Portland in the 50's and 60's, like I did, it's a wonderful stroll down memory lane as well as a good refresher on what's been going on since. Seems very close to thetruth, at least on the topics I'm in a position to judge. Only knock isit's a little too Seattle oriented for my blood!

Great book full of unusual facts!
I'm a native Southerner, so reading this book about the Pacific Northwest was a lot of fun.The writers have a unique voice that makes this book much more than a mere compendium of facts.Each piece is written with alot of humor and insight.Anyone interested in pop culture should own thisbook! ... Read more

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This text focuses on the shared Pacific West political arena of Washington State and the province of British Columbia, but has many implications for comparison drawn at the national level. Using multiple methodologies, the book reports the results of investigative differences in the two countries, including political cultures and public preferences in three major areas of public policy: native claims, immigration, and forest resource management. ... Read more