Robert A Brightman
Biographic Data
| ID | 314431 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert A Brightman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert A |
| FAMILY NAME | Brightman |
| SIGNATURE | BRIGHTMAN R A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Conservation and Resource Depletion
Grateful Prey
Journal Article Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships Get access Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships. By Brightman Robert A.. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xvi + 396 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00.) Robin Ridington Robin Ridington University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 26,…
Primitivism in Missinippi Cree Historical Consciousness
The Missinippi Crees of northwestern Manitoba preserve traditions of two primitive anthropomorphic races' chronologically more ancient and culturally less complex than contemporary humans. Dunng the course of involvement in the European fur trade and more recent expenences of sedentarisation and subjection to Euro-Canadian influences, Crees have identified these bemgs with representations of earlier and indigenous conditions of their own society.…
Acaoohkiwina and Acimowina
This chapter presents and analyzes two sets of traditional Rock Cree narratives, acaoohkiwina and acimowina, exploring their significance in understanding Rock Cree cosmology and worldview. Acaoohkiwina, often translated as "sacred stories," depict the mythical origins of the world, the creation of humans, and the establishment of social order. These narratives feature key figures like Wisahkecahk, the trickster-transformer, and explain natural p…
The Windigo in the Material World
Reconsideration of documentary evidence indicates that the Subarctic Algonquian complex was of probable prehistoric inception, that a cor- relative psychiatric disorder entailing cannibalistic ideation and behavior is his- torically demonstrable, and that existing ecological explanations of the complex fail to elucidate its origin, persistence, characteristics, and distribution. Exami- nation of the complex from structural, pragmatic, and ideolog…
The Indefinite Possessor Prefix in Woods Cree
On Windigo Psychosis
Primitivism in Missinippi Cree Historical Consciousness
The Missinippi Crees of northwestern Manitoba preserve traditions of two primitive anthropomorphic races' chronologically more ancient and culturally less complex than contemporary humans. Dunng the course of involvement in the European fur trade and more recent expenences of sedentarisation and subjection to Euro-Canadian influences, Crees have identified these bemgs with representations of earlier and indigenous conditions of their own society.…
Acaoohkiwina and Acimowina
This chapter presents and analyzes two sets of traditional Rock Cree narratives, acaoohkiwina and acimowina, exploring their significance in understanding Rock Cree cosmology and worldview. Acaoohkiwina, often translated as "sacred stories," depict the mythical origins of the world, the creation of humans, and the establishment of social order. These narratives feature key figures like Wisahkecahk, the trickster-transformer, and explain natural p…
The Indefinite Possessor Prefix in Woods Cree
The Windigo in the Material World
Reconsideration of documentary evidence indicates that the Subarctic Algonquian complex was of probable prehistoric inception, that a cor- relative psychiatric disorder entailing cannibalistic ideation and behavior is his- torically demonstrable, and that existing ecological explanations of the complex fail to elucidate its origin, persistence, characteristics, and distribution. Exami- nation of the complex from structural, pragmatic, and ideolog…
On Windigo Psychosis
The Indefinite Possessor Prefix in Woods Cree
The Windigo in the Material World
Reconsideration of documentary evidence indicates that the Subarctic Algonquian complex was of probable prehistoric inception, that a cor- relative psychiatric disorder entailing cannibalistic ideation and behavior is his- torically demonstrable, and that existing ecological explanations of the complex fail to elucidate its origin, persistence, characteristics, and distribution. Exami- nation of the complex from structural, pragmatic, and ideolog…
Acaoohkiwina and Acimowina
This chapter presents and analyzes two sets of traditional Rock Cree narratives, acaoohkiwina and acimowina, exploring their significance in understanding Rock Cree cosmology and worldview. Acaoohkiwina, often translated as "sacred stories," depict the mythical origins of the world, the creation of humans, and the establishment of social order. These narratives feature key figures like Wisahkecahk, the trickster-transformer, and explain natural p…
Primitivism in Missinippi Cree Historical Consciousness
The Missinippi Crees of northwestern Manitoba preserve traditions of two primitive anthropomorphic races' chronologically more ancient and culturally less complex than contemporary humans. Dunng the course of involvement in the European fur trade and more recent expenences of sedentarisation and subjection to Euro-Canadian influences, Crees have identified these bemgs with representations of earlier and indigenous conditions of their own society.…
Grateful Prey
Journal Article Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships Get access Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships. By Brightman Robert A.. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xvi + 396 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00.) Robin Ridington Robin Ridington University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 26,…
Conservation and Resource Depletion
Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · History (3 works) · Library science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Psychedelics and Drug Studies (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work)