A D Fisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 114435 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A D Fisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | A D |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8
Anthropology and Education in Canada, the Early Years (1850-1970)
The subfield of anthropology and education has developed differently in Canada from the path it followed in the United States, even though the discipline of anthropology shared individuals and research topics across the border. Anthropology and education in Canada is distinctly Canadian and is a peripheral version of the central subdiscipline found in the United States
Taking Control
This dissertation is an ethnography. It explores the ways that people within a First Nations adult education centre make sense of taking control of education. Michel Foucault's open-textured analysis of power frames the research. He argues power not only represses but also "forms knowledge and produces discourse." Control and power as used by the "new" sociologists of education, and the National Indian Brotherhood in its policy statement Indian C…
Anthropology and praxis
Indian Education in Canada, Volume II
Arduous Journey
Alcoholism and race
Indian Education in Canada. Volume 1
The Thick and the Thin
The promise of interpretive theory has led Clifford Geertz to call for a new and different anthropology as well as a broad "refiguration of social thought" in the social sciences and humanities. This essay examines Geertz's theoretical program, including its application to the specific cases of Balinese trance and the Balinese theatre state. Special attention is given to Geertz's claim that interpretive theory is superior to conventional social s…
The structure and substance of automobile racing, or how hi-tech keeps its greasy side down
Automobile racing is approached as a feature of advanced capitalist society. First, the organized sport of automobile racing is considered in a Levi-Straussian construct, and the myths and structures underlying that sport are examined. A cognitive model is then developed to illustrate further the interaction of the rules or structures that govern this 'game.' L'auteur aborde le sujet des courses d'automobiles comme étant un attribut des sociétés …
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The dialectic of Indian life in Canada
White rites versus Indian rights
The Thick and the Thin
The promise of interpretive theory has led Clifford Geertz to call for a new and different anthropology as well as a broad "refiguration of social thought" in the social sciences and humanities. This essay examines Geertz's theoretical program, including its application to the specific cases of Balinese trance and the Balinese theatre state. Special attention is given to Geertz's claim that interpretive theory is superior to conventional social s…
Indian Education in Canada. Volume 1
The dialectic of Indian life in Canada
Anthropology and Education in Canada, the Early Years (1850-1970)
The subfield of anthropology and education has developed differently in Canada from the path it followed in the United States, even though the discipline of anthropology shared individuals and research topics across the border. Anthropology and education in Canada is distinctly Canadian and is a peripheral version of the central subdiscipline found in the United States
Alcoholism and race
White rites versus Indian rights
The dialectic of Indian life in Canada
More on Policy Studies and Anthropology
The Thick and the Thin
The promise of interpretive theory has led Clifford Geertz to call for a new and different anthropology as well as a broad "refiguration of social thought" in the social sciences and humanities. This essay examines Geertz's theoretical program, including its application to the specific cases of Balinese trance and the Balinese theatre state. Special attention is given to Geertz's claim that interpretive theory is superior to conventional social s…
The structure and substance of automobile racing, or how hi-tech keeps its greasy side down
Automobile racing is approached as a feature of advanced capitalist society. First, the organized sport of automobile racing is considered in a Levi-Straussian construct, and the myths and structures underlying that sport are examined. A cognitive model is then developed to illustrate further the interaction of the rules or structures that govern this 'game.' L'auteur aborde le sujet des courses d'automobiles comme étant un attribut des sociétés …
Alcoholism and race
Indian Education in Canada. Volume 1
Anthropology and praxis
Indian Education in Canada, Volume II
Arduous Journey
Taking Control
This dissertation is an ethnography. It explores the ways that people within a First Nations adult education centre make sense of taking control of education. Michel Foucault's open-textured analysis of power frames the research. He argues power not only represses but also "forms knowledge and produces discourse." Control and power as used by the "new" sociologists of education, and the National Indian Brotherhood in its policy statement Indian C…
Anthropology and Education in Canada, the Early Years (1850-1970)
The subfield of anthropology and education has developed differently in Canada from the path it followed in the United States, even though the discipline of anthropology shared individuals and research topics across the border. Anthropology and education in Canada is distinctly Canadian and is a peripheral version of the central subdiscipline found in the United States
Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8
Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Canadian Identity and History (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)