Noel Dyck
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noel Dyck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noel |
| FAMILY NAME | Dyck |
| SIGNATURE | DYCK N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Negotiating The Indian “Problem”
This essay examines the formulation of the so-called Indian “problem” as a significant element in relations between Indians and non-Indians in Western Canada. Making use of the concept of the culture of public problems, the author identifies some of the means by which Indian representatives seek to renegotiate with non-Indians a new understanding of the nature of the Indian “problem”
Illuminating Details: Reflections on a Practice of Anthropology
This revised address for the 2019 Weaver-Tremblay Award revisits some underlying questions about the practice of anthropology that have figured in my own work. First, why might one choose anthropology as a means of intellectual and practical inquiry into social and cultural phenomena? Second, what kinds of anthropological practice can be pursued? Finally, what types of knowledge can be acquired through anthropological approaches, and to what purp…
Anthropological Perspectives and the Sociology of Sport
Sport, Anthropology of
Introduction: Anthropology and the neoliberal agenda
This short introduction contextualises the three contributions to this special section. Globally, anthropologists are feeling the effects of the neoliberal restructuring of the university. Here we examine the new pressures on anthropological research, to transcend the boundaries of the discipline in particular ways – through forms of interdisciplinarity and / or a focus on the societal or economic impact of research
Working the boundaries: Anthropology and multidisciplinarity in Canada
The pronounced governmental and administrative endorsement in Canada of interdisciplinary and collaborative research raises questions about the purposes and impacts of these approaches upon a discipline such as anthropology. Although Canadian anthropology has a lengthy history of involvement in extradisciplinary undertakings, the conditions that have enabled such voluntary collaborations are being rapidly replaced by a quite different set of arra…
Dressing up to join the games: Vancouver 2010
The 2010 Winter Olympics initially encountered not only scepticism on the part of local critics concerning the levels of public expenditure on the Games and protests by anti-globalisation activists but also the death of a Georgian luger during a training-run crash on the first day. This tragic event and a number of other logistical difficulties fuelled international criticism of the Games that sparked consternation within the host community and a…
Young Men in Uncertain Times
Anthropology is particularly well suited to explore the contemporary predicament in the coming of age of young men. Its grounded and comparative empiricism provides the opportunity to move beyond statistics, moral panics, or gender stereotypes in order to explore specific aspects of life course transitions, as well as the similar or divergent barriers or opportunities that young men in different parts of the world face. Yet, effective contextuali…
Unsystematic Systems
This special issue reports the findings of a research team of senior anthropologists, Vered Amit and Noel Dyck, and three graduate research assistants, Heather Barnick, Meghan Gilgunn, and Kathleen Rice, collaboratively investigating the workings of policies on the movements of student and youth from Canada. Specifically our focus is on three different types of movement: international student exchanges, working holidays, and international athleti…
Going South: Canadians' Engagement with American Athletic Scholarships
This article examines the dynamics and implications of Canadians' pursuit of and ambiguous engagement with athletic scholarships offered to elite athletes by American colleges and universities. After sketching in the broader social and cultural context within which the movement of Canadian athletes to the U.S. occurs, it considers ways in which reckonings of high achievement in sport and other fields of performance tend to be constructed in Canad…
Canadian Anthropology and the Ethnography of “Indian Administration”
Getting into the Game: Anthropological Perspectives on Sport: Introduction
Keywords: sports, games, play, body, performance, aestheticsConceptual walls that once cloistered scholars from even contemplating that games and sports might be legitimate and significant matters for intellectual inquiry have in recent years been intrepidly scaled. Political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, literary critics, historians, geographers, economists and philosophers have mounted inquiries into sundry aspects of sport participa…
Home field advantage
This chapter examines certain advantages and problems associated with conducting social anthropological research ‘at home’. While this practice has become increasingly common during the past twenty years, a subtle ambivalence concerning its legitimacy continues to reside within the discipline.1 My purpose here is not to rehearse the general arguments offered in favour of conducting anthropological research where one normally lives.2 The cumulativ…
Differing Visions: Administering Indian Residential Schooling in Prince Albert, 1867-1995
Indian residential schooling is a hot topic in Canada these days, but most of the discussion has focussed on its role in child abuse and the suppression of Aboriginal culture and language, accompanied by a chorus of church and government mea culpas and hand-wringing for these wrongs. But there is much more to residential schooling than this. Over the past century the provision of residences for pupils was for many Aboriginal groups in northern Ca…
Tutelage, Resistance and Co‐optation in Canadian Indian Administration
L'administration des affaires indiennes par l'état canadien a longtemps suivi une politique de tutelle coercitive visant à accomplir la transformation sociale, économique et culturelle des peuples autochtones et de leurs communautés. En se basant sur l'idée que les autochtones étaient incapables de gérer leurs propres affaires, les autorités fédérales ont imposé des bureaucraties visant à assurer le contrôle de presque tous les aspects de leur vi…
Where's the Sport
"What is the Indian "Problem: Tutelage and Resistance in Canadian Indian Administration
Journal Article What Is the Indian “Problem”: Tutelage and Resistance in Canadian Indian Administration. By Noel Dyck. (St. John's: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1991. xii, 208 pp. Paper, ISBN 0-919666-72-8.) Get access Larry Burt Larry Burt Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histor…
Ward Churchill - Indians Are Us? Culture and Genocide in Native North America
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Parents, consociates and the social construction of children's athletics
(1995). Parents, consociates and the social construction of children's athletics. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 215-229
On ethnographic knowledge: Basil Sansom and the anthropological imagination
(1995). On ethnographic knowledge: Basil Sansom and the anthropological imagination. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 155-159
Anthropology, Public Policy, and Native Peoples in Canada
Anthropology, Public Policy and Native Peoples in Canada
Since the 1950s the federal government has mounted a series of initiatives to address the social, economic, and political marginality of Canadian natives. These initiatives have had a fundamental and often negative impact on native communities, often as a result of the intense resistance they have generated. Dealing with these developments has gradually altered the character of anthropologists' work. Professional anthropologists are no longer con…
Tangled Webs of History: Indians and the Law in Canada's Pacific Coast Fisheries
When British Columbia entered Confederation in 1871, First Nations people (referred to then and in Newell's book as Indians) constituted a majority, yet were not consulted in negotiating terms of union. Nowhere in process of confederation were institutions, governments and economies of First Nations given serious consideration as founding principles of new Dominion. The Fathers of Confederation thought that, with implementation of a paternalistic…
Anthropology, Public Policy, and Native Peoples in Canada
Since the 1950s the federal government has mounted a series of initiatives to address the social, economic, and political marginality of Canadian Natives. These initiatives have had a fundamental and often negative impact on Native communities, often as a result of the intense resistance they have generated. Dealing with these developments has gradually altered the character of anthropologists' work. Professional anthropologists are no longer con…
What Is the Indian 'Problem: Tutelage and Resistance in Canadian Indian Administration
Anthropology, Public Policy and Native Peoples in Canada
Since the 1950s the federal government has mounted a series of initiatives to address the social, economic, and political marginality of Canadian natives. These initiatives have had a fundamental and often negative impact on native communities, often as a result of the intense resistance they have generated. Dealing with these developments has gradually altered the character of anthropologists' work. Professional anthropologists are no longer con…
Anthropology, Public Policy, and Native Peoples in Canada
Tutelage, Resistance and Co‐optation in Canadian Indian Administration
L'administration des affaires indiennes par l'état canadien a longtemps suivi une politique de tutelle coercitive visant à accomplir la transformation sociale, économique et culturelle des peuples autochtones et de leurs communautés. En se basant sur l'idée que les autochtones étaient incapables de gérer leurs propres affaires, les autorités fédérales ont imposé des bureaucraties visant à assurer le contrôle de presque tous les aspects de leur vi…
Tutelage and the politics of aboriginality: A Canadian dilemma
Robert Paine's writings about the practice of state tutelage and the genesis of aboriginal peoples' ethnopolitical strategies vis-a-vis the nation-state have made signal contributions to anthropological understandings of "fourth world" relations. Nevertheless, it should not be assumed that the processes by which contemporary claims of aboriginality are being articulated are unproblematic in their consequences. In Canada, at least, there is reason…
Going South: Canadians' Engagement with American Athletic Scholarships
This article examines the dynamics and implications of Canadians' pursuit of and ambiguous engagement with athletic scholarships offered to elite athletes by American colleges and universities. After sketching in the broader social and cultural context within which the movement of Canadian athletes to the U.S. occurs, it considers ways in which reckonings of high achievement in sport and other fields of performance tend to be constructed in Canad…
Getting into the Game: Anthropological Perspectives on Sport: Introduction
Keywords: sports, games, play, body, performance, aestheticsConceptual walls that once cloistered scholars from even contemplating that games and sports might be legitimate and significant matters for intellectual inquiry have in recent years been intrepidly scaled. Political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, literary critics, historians, geographers, economists and philosophers have mounted inquiries into sundry aspects of sport participa…
Powwow and the expression of community in Western Canada
1979). Powwow and the expression of community in Western Canada. Ethnos: Vol. 44, No. 1-2, pp. 78-98
Negotiating The Indian “Problem”
This essay examines the formulation of the so-called Indian “problem” as a significant element in relations between Indians and non-Indians in Western Canada. Making use of the concept of the culture of public problems, the author identifies some of the means by which Indian representatives seek to renegotiate with non-Indians a new understanding of the nature of the Indian “problem”
The Haida Indians: Cultural Change Mainly Between 1876-1970
Unsystematic Systems
This special issue reports the findings of a research team of senior anthropologists, Vered Amit and Noel Dyck, and three graduate research assistants, Heather Barnick, Meghan Gilgunn, and Kathleen Rice, collaboratively investigating the workings of policies on the movements of student and youth from Canada. Specifically our focus is on three different types of movement: international student exchanges, working holidays, and international athleti…
Where's the Sport
Parents, consociates and the social construction of children's athletics
(1995). Parents, consociates and the social construction of children's athletics. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 215-229
What Is the Indian 'Problem: Tutelage and Resistance in Canadian Indian Administration
The Haida Indians: Cultural Change Mainly Between 1876-1970
Powwow and the expression of community in Western Canada
1979). Powwow and the expression of community in Western Canada. Ethnos: Vol. 44, No. 1-2, pp. 78-98
Tutelage and the politics of aboriginality: A Canadian dilemma
Robert Paine's writings about the practice of state tutelage and the genesis of aboriginal peoples' ethnopolitical strategies vis-a-vis the nation-state have made signal contributions to anthropological understandings of "fourth world" relations. Nevertheless, it should not be assumed that the processes by which contemporary claims of aboriginality are being articulated are unproblematic in their consequences. In Canada, at least, there is reason…
The Queen's People: A Study of Hegemony, Coercion, and Accommodation among the Okanagan of Canada
An analysis of the realities of everyday life for Okanagan Indians on a reserve near Vernon. Carstens applies the peasant model to the study of reserve systems and finds significant correlations. Questions of class, status, power, and institutionalized inequality also come into play
Anthropology, Public Policy, and Native Peoples in Canada
Since the 1950s the federal government has mounted a series of initiatives to address the social, economic, and political marginality of Canadian Natives. These initiatives have had a fundamental and often negative impact on Native communities, often as a result of the intense resistance they have generated. Dealing with these developments has gradually altered the character of anthropologists' work. Professional anthropologists are no longer con…
What Is the Indian 'Problem: Tutelage and Resistance in Canadian Indian Administration
Anthropology, Public Policy, and Native Peoples in Canada
Anthropology, Public Policy and Native Peoples in Canada
Since the 1950s the federal government has mounted a series of initiatives to address the social, economic, and political marginality of Canadian natives. These initiatives have had a fundamental and often negative impact on native communities, often as a result of the intense resistance they have generated. Dealing with these developments has gradually altered the character of anthropologists' work. Professional anthropologists are no longer con…
Tangled Webs of History: Indians and the Law in Canada's Pacific Coast Fisheries
When British Columbia entered Confederation in 1871, First Nations people (referred to then and in Newell's book as Indians) constituted a majority, yet were not consulted in negotiating terms of union. Nowhere in process of confederation were institutions, governments and economies of First Nations given serious consideration as founding principles of new Dominion. The Fathers of Confederation thought that, with implementation of a paternalistic…
Parents, consociates and the social construction of children's athletics
(1995). Parents, consociates and the social construction of children's athletics. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 215-229
On ethnographic knowledge: Basil Sansom and the anthropological imagination
(1995). On ethnographic knowledge: Basil Sansom and the anthropological imagination. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 155-159
"What is the Indian "Problem: Tutelage and Resistance in Canadian Indian Administration
Journal Article What Is the Indian “Problem”: Tutelage and Resistance in Canadian Indian Administration. By Noel Dyck. (St. John's: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1991. xii, 208 pp. Paper, ISBN 0-919666-72-8.) Get access Larry Burt Larry Burt Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histor…
Ward Churchill - Indians Are Us? Culture and Genocide in Native North America
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Tutelage, Resistance and Co‐optation in Canadian Indian Administration
L'administration des affaires indiennes par l'état canadien a longtemps suivi une politique de tutelle coercitive visant à accomplir la transformation sociale, économique et culturelle des peuples autochtones et de leurs communautés. En se basant sur l'idée que les autochtones étaient incapables de gérer leurs propres affaires, les autorités fédérales ont imposé des bureaucraties visant à assurer le contrôle de presque tous les aspects de leur vi…
Where's the Sport
Differing Visions: Administering Indian Residential Schooling in Prince Albert, 1867-1995
Indian residential schooling is a hot topic in Canada these days, but most of the discussion has focussed on its role in child abuse and the suppression of Aboriginal culture and language, accompanied by a chorus of church and government mea culpas and hand-wringing for these wrongs. But there is much more to residential schooling than this. Over the past century the provision of residences for pupils was for many Aboriginal groups in northern Ca…
Home field advantage
This chapter examines certain advantages and problems associated with conducting social anthropological research ‘at home’. While this practice has become increasingly common during the past twenty years, a subtle ambivalence concerning its legitimacy continues to reside within the discipline.1 My purpose here is not to rehearse the general arguments offered in favour of conducting anthropological research where one normally lives.2 The cumulativ…
Getting into the Game: Anthropological Perspectives on Sport: Introduction
Keywords: sports, games, play, body, performance, aestheticsConceptual walls that once cloistered scholars from even contemplating that games and sports might be legitimate and significant matters for intellectual inquiry have in recent years been intrepidly scaled. Political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, literary critics, historians, geographers, economists and philosophers have mounted inquiries into sundry aspects of sport participa…
Canadian Anthropology and the Ethnography of “Indian Administration”
Unsystematic Systems
This special issue reports the findings of a research team of senior anthropologists, Vered Amit and Noel Dyck, and three graduate research assistants, Heather Barnick, Meghan Gilgunn, and Kathleen Rice, collaboratively investigating the workings of policies on the movements of student and youth from Canada. Specifically our focus is on three different types of movement: international student exchanges, working holidays, and international athleti…
Going South: Canadians' Engagement with American Athletic Scholarships
This article examines the dynamics and implications of Canadians' pursuit of and ambiguous engagement with athletic scholarships offered to elite athletes by American colleges and universities. After sketching in the broader social and cultural context within which the movement of Canadian athletes to the U.S. occurs, it considers ways in which reckonings of high achievement in sport and other fields of performance tend to be constructed in Canad…
Young Men in Uncertain Times
Anthropology is particularly well suited to explore the contemporary predicament in the coming of age of young men. Its grounded and comparative empiricism provides the opportunity to move beyond statistics, moral panics, or gender stereotypes in order to explore specific aspects of life course transitions, as well as the similar or divergent barriers or opportunities that young men in different parts of the world face. Yet, effective contextuali…
Dressing up to join the games: Vancouver 2010
The 2010 Winter Olympics initially encountered not only scepticism on the part of local critics concerning the levels of public expenditure on the Games and protests by anti-globalisation activists but also the death of a Georgian luger during a training-run crash on the first day. This tragic event and a number of other logistical difficulties fuelled international criticism of the Games that sparked consternation within the host community and a…
Introduction: Anthropology and the neoliberal agenda
This short introduction contextualises the three contributions to this special section. Globally, anthropologists are feeling the effects of the neoliberal restructuring of the university. Here we examine the new pressures on anthropological research, to transcend the boundaries of the discipline in particular ways – through forms of interdisciplinarity and / or a focus on the societal or economic impact of research
Working the boundaries: Anthropology and multidisciplinarity in Canada
The pronounced governmental and administrative endorsement in Canada of interdisciplinary and collaborative research raises questions about the purposes and impacts of these approaches upon a discipline such as anthropology. Although Canadian anthropology has a lengthy history of involvement in extradisciplinary undertakings, the conditions that have enabled such voluntary collaborations are being rapidly replaced by a quite different set of arra…
Sociology (23 works) · Anthropology (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Canadian Identity and History (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · History (9 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (7 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (7 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (7 works)