Jo-Anne Fiske
Biographic Data
| ID | 3622217 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jo-Anne Fiske |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jo-Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Fiske |
| SIGNATURE | FISKE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Women’s Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Child of the State, Mother of the Nation
Around the world, in revolutions, periods of social reform, anti-colonial struggles and in international warfare, images of the mother have come to represent political aspirations. However common this phenomenon, is the meanings attributed to motherhood and the symbols employed to venerate it are constituted in the specificity of political struggles. In this paper I analyze the discourse of motherhood as constructed by aboriginal women of Canada …
Outsiders in Their Homeland
Aboriginal peoples in Canada are increasingly moving to urban communities in search of educational and economic opportunities. For many urbanization is not an easy process, in particular when they move to cities that historically have had few Aboriginal citizens and where social traditions of resistance and resentment towards Aboriginal rights prevail. In this paper we explore one such case through studying the phenomenon known as NIMBY (not in m…
Boundary crossings
This paper examines state power and cultural marginalisation among Aboriginal women in a relatively remote area of north-western British Columbia, Canada. In this paper, I argue that intersecting state powers explain intra-generational ‘ethnic mobility’, that is, shifts in individual ethnic identity among Aboriginal women in this area. In order to understand these shifting identities I have used the idea of ‘structural violence’ (Farmer 2003 Farm…
Aboriginal citizen, discredited medical subject
First Nations Women’s Encounters with Mainstream Health Care Services
Health care encounters are important areas for study because they reflect social, political, economic, and ideological relations between patients and the dominant health care system. This study examines mainstream health care encounters from the viewpoint of First Nations women from a reserve community in northwestern Canada. Perspectives from critical medical anthropology and the concept of cultural safety provided the theoretical orientation fo…
New Faces of the Fur Trade
Cis dideen kat (When the Plumes Rise)
The heart of the traditional legal order of the Lake Babine Nation of north-central British Columbia is the grand ceremonial feast known as the balhats, or potlatch. Misunderstood and widely condemned as a wasteful display of pride, the balhats ceremonies were outlawed by the Canadian government in the late nineteenth century. Throughout the years that followed, the Lake Babine Nation struggled to adapt their laws to a changing society while main…
Positioning the Legal Subject and the Anthropologist
The Supreme Court of Canada in its decision in the aboriginal rights case Delgamuuwk v Regina held that the expert testimony of anthropologists and aboriginal oral histories were acceptable evidence for the establishment of aboriginal occupational rights to land and of aboriginal law and systems of governance. This vindication of ethnographic representation occurred at a time when postmodernist, poststructural trends in anthropological theory wer…
Discourse and Defiance
The study of legal pluralism has hitherto focused on issues of jurisdiction, contestations and contradictions in legal doctrines and practices. In this paper we turn our attention to pluralism embedded in a single legal order, Canadian criminal law. Grounding our work in a notion of the discursive formation of identity we explore the manner in which two Canadian men, one a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, the other a convicted abuser, select …
New Faces of the Fur Trade
Journal Article New Faces of the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1995. Ed. by Jo-Anne Fiske, Susan Sleeper-Smith, and William Wicken. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998. x, 358 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-87013-434-5.) Get access Lucy Eldersveld Murphy Lucy Eldersveld Murphy Newberry Library Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
New Faces of the Fur Trade
New Faces of the Fur Trade is a collection of fifteen essays selected from the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1995. These articles question the traditional focus of fur trade literature and suggest that there are richer, more diverse narratives to be constructed and new ways to look at the fur trade. Many focus on subjects and themes that either have been formerly overlooked or have been introduced an…
The Womb is to the Nation as the Heart is to the Body
Constitutional reform is a story of contested boundaries and shifting solidarities. It is a story of new opportunities, the transformation of old structures, and the creation of new social identities arising with new political boundaries. The following is a story of ethnopolitical transformation in Canada's on-going struggles for constitutional reform and ethnic redefinition
Pocahontas's Granddaughters
Spirituality and sexuality marked moral boundaries on the North American colonial frontier. Images of women's bodies and presumptions about female morality were central signifiers of relative stages of civilization. Images created in the seventeenth century endure and persist in dividing aboriginal womanhood into the dichotomous and harmful categories of princess and squaw. The continuing appeal of Pocahontas myths reveals the power of these imag…
Political Status of Native Indian Women
INTRODUCTION\nFor more than a century, anthropological interest in the status of aboriginal women of North America has been shaped primarily by theoretical debates concerning the complex relationships between women’s changing social position, social evolution, and economic transformation and, more recently, the penetration of colonizing state societies. Since the 1970s’ however, feminist scholars have redirected theoretical attention either to in…
Colonization and the Decline of Women's Status
Native Women in Reserve Politics
Aboriginal citizen, discredited medical subject
Political Status of Native Indian Women
INTRODUCTION\nFor more than a century, anthropological interest in the status of aboriginal women of North America has been shaped primarily by theoretical debates concerning the complex relationships between women’s changing social position, social evolution, and economic transformation and, more recently, the penetration of colonizing state societies. Since the 1970s’ however, feminist scholars have redirected theoretical attention either to in…
The Womb is to the Nation as the Heart is to the Body
Constitutional reform is a story of contested boundaries and shifting solidarities. It is a story of new opportunities, the transformation of old structures, and the creation of new social identities arising with new political boundaries. The following is a story of ethnopolitical transformation in Canada's on-going struggles for constitutional reform and ethnic redefinition
Colonization and the Decline of Women's Status
Child of the State, Mother of the Nation
Around the world, in revolutions, periods of social reform, anti-colonial struggles and in international warfare, images of the mother have come to represent political aspirations. However common this phenomenon, is the meanings attributed to motherhood and the symbols employed to venerate it are constituted in the specificity of political struggles. In this paper I analyze the discourse of motherhood as constructed by aboriginal women of Canada …
Boundary crossings
This paper examines state power and cultural marginalisation among Aboriginal women in a relatively remote area of north-western British Columbia, Canada. In this paper, I argue that intersecting state powers explain intra-generational ‘ethnic mobility’, that is, shifts in individual ethnic identity among Aboriginal women in this area. In order to understand these shifting identities I have used the idea of ‘structural violence’ (Farmer 2003 Farm…
New Faces of the Fur Trade
New Faces of the Fur Trade is a collection of fifteen essays selected from the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1995. These articles question the traditional focus of fur trade literature and suggest that there are richer, more diverse narratives to be constructed and new ways to look at the fur trade. Many focus on subjects and themes that either have been formerly overlooked or have been introduced an…
Pocahontas's Granddaughters
Spirituality and sexuality marked moral boundaries on the North American colonial frontier. Images of women's bodies and presumptions about female morality were central signifiers of relative stages of civilization. Images created in the seventeenth century endure and persist in dividing aboriginal womanhood into the dichotomous and harmful categories of princess and squaw. The continuing appeal of Pocahontas myths reveals the power of these imag…
Native Women in Reserve Politics
Colonization and the Decline of Women's Status
Political Status of Native Indian Women
INTRODUCTION\nFor more than a century, anthropological interest in the status of aboriginal women of North America has been shaped primarily by theoretical debates concerning the complex relationships between women’s changing social position, social evolution, and economic transformation and, more recently, the penetration of colonizing state societies. Since the 1970s’ however, feminist scholars have redirected theoretical attention either to in…
The Womb is to the Nation as the Heart is to the Body
Constitutional reform is a story of contested boundaries and shifting solidarities. It is a story of new opportunities, the transformation of old structures, and the creation of new social identities arising with new political boundaries. The following is a story of ethnopolitical transformation in Canada's on-going struggles for constitutional reform and ethnic redefinition
Pocahontas's Granddaughters
Spirituality and sexuality marked moral boundaries on the North American colonial frontier. Images of women's bodies and presumptions about female morality were central signifiers of relative stages of civilization. Images created in the seventeenth century endure and persist in dividing aboriginal womanhood into the dichotomous and harmful categories of princess and squaw. The continuing appeal of Pocahontas myths reveals the power of these imag…
New Faces of the Fur Trade
Journal Article New Faces of the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1995. Ed. by Jo-Anne Fiske, Susan Sleeper-Smith, and William Wicken. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998. x, 358 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-87013-434-5.) Get access Lucy Eldersveld Murphy Lucy Eldersveld Murphy Newberry Library Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
New Faces of the Fur Trade
New Faces of the Fur Trade is a collection of fifteen essays selected from the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1995. These articles question the traditional focus of fur trade literature and suggest that there are richer, more diverse narratives to be constructed and new ways to look at the fur trade. Many focus on subjects and themes that either have been formerly overlooked or have been introduced an…
Cis dideen kat (When the Plumes Rise)
The heart of the traditional legal order of the Lake Babine Nation of north-central British Columbia is the grand ceremonial feast known as the balhats, or potlatch. Misunderstood and widely condemned as a wasteful display of pride, the balhats ceremonies were outlawed by the Canadian government in the late nineteenth century. Throughout the years that followed, the Lake Babine Nation struggled to adapt their laws to a changing society while main…
Positioning the Legal Subject and the Anthropologist
The Supreme Court of Canada in its decision in the aboriginal rights case Delgamuuwk v Regina held that the expert testimony of anthropologists and aboriginal oral histories were acceptable evidence for the establishment of aboriginal occupational rights to land and of aboriginal law and systems of governance. This vindication of ethnographic representation occurred at a time when postmodernist, poststructural trends in anthropological theory wer…
Discourse and Defiance
The study of legal pluralism has hitherto focused on issues of jurisdiction, contestations and contradictions in legal doctrines and practices. In this paper we turn our attention to pluralism embedded in a single legal order, Canadian criminal law. Grounding our work in a notion of the discursive formation of identity we explore the manner in which two Canadian men, one a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, the other a convicted abuser, select …
First Nations Women’s Encounters with Mainstream Health Care Services
Health care encounters are important areas for study because they reflect social, political, economic, and ideological relations between patients and the dominant health care system. This study examines mainstream health care encounters from the viewpoint of First Nations women from a reserve community in northwestern Canada. Perspectives from critical medical anthropology and the concept of cultural safety provided the theoretical orientation fo…
New Faces of the Fur Trade
Boundary crossings
This paper examines state power and cultural marginalisation among Aboriginal women in a relatively remote area of north-western British Columbia, Canada. In this paper, I argue that intersecting state powers explain intra-generational ‘ethnic mobility’, that is, shifts in individual ethnic identity among Aboriginal women in this area. In order to understand these shifting identities I have used the idea of ‘structural violence’ (Farmer 2003 Farm…
Aboriginal citizen, discredited medical subject
Outsiders in Their Homeland
Aboriginal peoples in Canada are increasingly moving to urban communities in search of educational and economic opportunities. For many urbanization is not an easy process, in particular when they move to cities that historically have had few Aboriginal citizens and where social traditions of resistance and resentment towards Aboriginal rights prevail. In this paper we explore one such case through studying the phenomenon known as NIMBY (not in m…
Child of the State, Mother of the Nation
Around the world, in revolutions, periods of social reform, anti-colonial struggles and in international warfare, images of the mother have come to represent political aspirations. However common this phenomenon, is the meanings attributed to motherhood and the symbols employed to venerate it are constituted in the specificity of political struggles. In this paper I analyze the discourse of motherhood as constructed by aboriginal women of Canada …
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Canadian Identity and History (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works)