Thinking with James Bay: Crees, English, and Cold
| Autor: | Peter C. Mancall |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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History
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Ecology 06 humanities and the arts 01 natural sciences 060104 history Power (social and political) Human relations Ethnology 0601 history and archaeology Traditional knowledge Bay Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Northeastern Naturalist. 24:H115-H132 |
| ISSN: | 1938-5307 1092-6194 |
| DOI: | 10.1656/045.024.s718 |
| Popis: | This article considers a clash of 2 historic ways of understanding human relations with the environment in James Bay, Canada, which stretches from 52° to 55° north latitude: Cree traditional knowledge and the writings of early 17th-century English explorers. The observations and practices of both Natives and newcomers reflected the enduring power of cold and the particular systems of information that emerged in a region where winter posed myriad threats. These different kinds of historical knowledge survive in different media, one oral and the other written. By considering them together, it becomes clear that the most radical environmental shift in the region occurred not with the signing of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement of 1975, but instead over 300 years earlier. This conclusion suggests reconsideration of the environmental historian Alfred Crosby's notion of “ecological imperialism”, a process understood as the result of the movement of biota, with quick and far-reaching results ... |
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