C N Westman
Biographic Data
| ID | 37540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C N Westman |
| GIVEN NAMES | C N |
| FAMILY NAME | Westman |
| SIGNATURE | WESTMAN C N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Saskatchewan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3557-4955 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Trickster Tales: The Various Anthropologies of Robert Brightman
Note de la rédaction
L es infrastructures semblent faire la une de l'actualité au Canada.Rarement utilisé dans les médias jusqu'à récemment, ce terme quelque peu technique est désormais omniprésent.Compte tenu de la transformation des relations du Canada avec les États-Unis et le reste du monde, les infrastructures -qui prennent souvent la forme de grands projets d'extraction et de corridors de transport -occupent désormais une place prépondérante dans les nouveaux i…
Notes des rédacteurs
Bringing past into present: Transitions, truth and reckoning with unmarked residential school graves
This conversation began as a roundtable at the 2023 joint meeting of the American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Anthropology Society in Toronto. The roundtable was part of the Executive Program and was intended as a follow-up to Kisha Supernant’s keynote presentation, which was entitled ‘Truth before transition. Reimagining anthropology as restorative justice.’ Considering the sensitive nature of the topic, we responded to a select…
Wood Buffalo National Park and the politics of shame: Indigenous advocacy at Unesco's World Heritage Committee
Encountering Moose in a Changing Landscape: Sociality, Intentionality, and Emplaced Relationships
Drawing on research among Cree and Métis hunters, we consider how moose enter into situated relationships with humans, other beings, and one another. Moose engage in communicative acts exhibiting embodied intentionality and a relational theory of mind. Moose intentionalities and subjectivities are partly knowable to hunters through the co-constructed perceptual lens that develops as moose and humans make homes together in a shared landscape - a '…
When a pipe breaks: Monitoring an emergency spill in the oil sands and documenting its erasure of indigenous interests in land
This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork with Woodland Cree First Nation (WCFN), an Indigenous community in the oil sands of Alberta, Canada. We examine a 2013 contaminated water spill within the First Nation's territory. We use field notes, interviews, and spill summaries written on-site to describe the spill and examine the differences between corporate and media portrayals of the spill and cleanup efforts. We explore themes and concerns…
Vivre ensemble avec la terre: Conclure et honorer les traités avec les peuples autochtones
Living Together with the Land: Reaching and Honouring Treaties with Indigenous Peoples
Shared Breath: Human and Nonhuman Copresence through Ritualized Words and Beyond
We introduce and elaborate on the notion of "shared breath" as a way of understanding human and nonhuman copresence and offer descriptions and narratives about three Indigenous groups in Russia and Canada, namely, Veps, Western Woods Cree, and Interior Salish St'at'imc. These data illustrate vividly how the underused metaphor of shared breath sheds light on active participation in life by and respectful relations with nonhuman beings, thus surpas…
Oil Sands Extraction in Alberta, Canada: A Review of Impacts and Processes Concerning Indigenous Peoples
Extracting knowledge: Social science, environmental impact assessment, and Indigenous consultation in the oil sands of Alberta, Canada
Visions of the great mystery: Grounding the Algonquian manitow concept
This article provides an overview of the Algonquian manitow concept. Manitow is often translated as spirit, god or mythical being, but reflects more complex and culturally grounded ideas about power in animist ontologies. The article suggests that manitow should be translated with care, with attention to a range of meanings. The authors refer primarily to Cree examples from Alberta, Canada, but also take a broader view to consider examples from o…
Înîhiyawîtwâw 'They Are Speaking Cree: Cree Language Use and Issues in Northern Alberta, Canada
In this article, we consider the status of Northern Cree, commonly considered a sub-dialect of Plains Cree. Although northern Alberta, where Northern Cree is spoken, is home to thousands of Cree speakers, the sub-dialect's characteristics and dynamics are understudied. Based on our Cree language training since 2000 and our fieldwork since 1996, we provide new data on Northern Cree and on Cree language use and issues in northern Alberta. We elucid…
Social Impact Assessment and the Anthropology of the Future in Canada's Tar Sands
In considering risk forecasting in light of anthropological and interdisciplinary impact assessment literature, this article demonstrates that impact assessment in Canada's tar sands sector is about designing the future, legitimizing future energy development, and rendering defense of foraging economies into technical, rather than political, channels. Impact assessment is a future-oriented, modeling-based practice, with a problematic relationship…
Cautionary Tales: Making and Breaking Community in the Oil Sands Region
I consider data from Cree and Métis history, ethnology, and mythology to focus on three transformative modes (integration, disintegration, and media- tion) in relation to concepts of community. I develop an allegorical fantasy of oily monsters, tricksters, and their appetites arising from liquid commodities, in opposition to more integrative ritual practices that have historically underpinned community in the oil sands region of northern Alberta.…
Native Christians: Modes and effects of Christianity among indigenous peoples of the Americas – Edited by Aparecida Vilaça & Robin M. Wright
Contemporary Studies of Ritual in Anthropology and Related Disciplines
Studies of ritual continue to be of critical interest in anthropology and allied disciplines. Recent approaches to ritual highlight its internal logic, its close relation to exchange and political power, its emotional energy, its centrality in social life, and the difficulty or possibilities in grasping ritual and evidence of past rituals scientifically. Nevertheless, common ground can be seen in such studies, particularly their continuity with a…
Mi'kmaq landscapes: From animism to sacred ecology - By Anne-Christine Hornborg
Hunters and bureaucrats: Power, knowledge, and Aboriginal-state relations in the Southwest Yukon - By Paul Nadasdy
Extracting knowledge: Social science, environmental impact assessment, and Indigenous consultation in the oil sands of Alberta, Canada
Shared Breath: Human and Nonhuman Copresence through Ritualized Words and Beyond
We introduce and elaborate on the notion of "shared breath" as a way of understanding human and nonhuman copresence and offer descriptions and narratives about three Indigenous groups in Russia and Canada, namely, Veps, Western Woods Cree, and Interior Salish St'at'imc. These data illustrate vividly how the underused metaphor of shared breath sheds light on active participation in life by and respectful relations with nonhuman beings, thus surpas…
Cautionary Tales: Making and Breaking Community in the Oil Sands Region
I consider data from Cree and Métis history, ethnology, and mythology to focus on three transformative modes (integration, disintegration, and media- tion) in relation to concepts of community. I develop an allegorical fantasy of oily monsters, tricksters, and their appetites arising from liquid commodities, in opposition to more integrative ritual practices that have historically underpinned community in the oil sands region of northern Alberta.…
Contemporary Studies of Ritual in Anthropology and Related Disciplines
Studies of ritual continue to be of critical interest in anthropology and allied disciplines. Recent approaches to ritual highlight its internal logic, its close relation to exchange and political power, its emotional energy, its centrality in social life, and the difficulty or possibilities in grasping ritual and evidence of past rituals scientifically. Nevertheless, common ground can be seen in such studies, particularly their continuity with a…
Encountering Moose in a Changing Landscape: Sociality, Intentionality, and Emplaced Relationships
Drawing on research among Cree and Métis hunters, we consider how moose enter into situated relationships with humans, other beings, and one another. Moose engage in communicative acts exhibiting embodied intentionality and a relational theory of mind. Moose intentionalities and subjectivities are partly knowable to hunters through the co-constructed perceptual lens that develops as moose and humans make homes together in a shared landscape - a '…
Wood Buffalo National Park and the politics of shame: Indigenous advocacy at Unesco's World Heritage Committee
Înîhiyawîtwâw 'They Are Speaking Cree: Cree Language Use and Issues in Northern Alberta, Canada
In this article, we consider the status of Northern Cree, commonly considered a sub-dialect of Plains Cree. Although northern Alberta, where Northern Cree is spoken, is home to thousands of Cree speakers, the sub-dialect's characteristics and dynamics are understudied. Based on our Cree language training since 2000 and our fieldwork since 1996, we provide new data on Northern Cree and on Cree language use and issues in northern Alberta. We elucid…
Hunters and bureaucrats: Power, knowledge, and Aboriginal-state relations in the Southwest Yukon - By Paul Nadasdy
Native Christians: Modes and effects of Christianity among indigenous peoples of the Americas – Edited by Aparecida Vilaça & Robin M. Wright
Contemporary Studies of Ritual in Anthropology and Related Disciplines
Studies of ritual continue to be of critical interest in anthropology and allied disciplines. Recent approaches to ritual highlight its internal logic, its close relation to exchange and political power, its emotional energy, its centrality in social life, and the difficulty or possibilities in grasping ritual and evidence of past rituals scientifically. Nevertheless, common ground can be seen in such studies, particularly their continuity with a…
Mi'kmaq landscapes: From animism to sacred ecology - By Anne-Christine Hornborg
Social Impact Assessment and the Anthropology of the Future in Canada's Tar Sands
In considering risk forecasting in light of anthropological and interdisciplinary impact assessment literature, this article demonstrates that impact assessment in Canada's tar sands sector is about designing the future, legitimizing future energy development, and rendering defense of foraging economies into technical, rather than political, channels. Impact assessment is a future-oriented, modeling-based practice, with a problematic relationship…
Cautionary Tales: Making and Breaking Community in the Oil Sands Region
I consider data from Cree and Métis history, ethnology, and mythology to focus on three transformative modes (integration, disintegration, and media- tion) in relation to concepts of community. I develop an allegorical fantasy of oily monsters, tricksters, and their appetites arising from liquid commodities, in opposition to more integrative ritual practices that have historically underpinned community in the oil sands region of northern Alberta.…
Înîhiyawîtwâw 'They Are Speaking Cree: Cree Language Use and Issues in Northern Alberta, Canada
In this article, we consider the status of Northern Cree, commonly considered a sub-dialect of Plains Cree. Although northern Alberta, where Northern Cree is spoken, is home to thousands of Cree speakers, the sub-dialect's characteristics and dynamics are understudied. Based on our Cree language training since 2000 and our fieldwork since 1996, we provide new data on Northern Cree and on Cree language use and issues in northern Alberta. We elucid…
Visions of the great mystery: Grounding the Algonquian manitow concept
This article provides an overview of the Algonquian manitow concept. Manitow is often translated as spirit, god or mythical being, but reflects more complex and culturally grounded ideas about power in animist ontologies. The article suggests that manitow should be translated with care, with attention to a range of meanings. The authors refer primarily to Cree examples from Alberta, Canada, but also take a broader view to consider examples from o…
Extracting knowledge: Social science, environmental impact assessment, and Indigenous consultation in the oil sands of Alberta, Canada
Oil Sands Extraction in Alberta, Canada: A Review of Impacts and Processes Concerning Indigenous Peoples
When a pipe breaks: Monitoring an emergency spill in the oil sands and documenting its erasure of indigenous interests in land
This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork with Woodland Cree First Nation (WCFN), an Indigenous community in the oil sands of Alberta, Canada. We examine a 2013 contaminated water spill within the First Nation's territory. We use field notes, interviews, and spill summaries written on-site to describe the spill and examine the differences between corporate and media portrayals of the spill and cleanup efforts. We explore themes and concerns…
Vivre ensemble avec la terre: Conclure et honorer les traités avec les peuples autochtones
Living Together with the Land: Reaching and Honouring Treaties with Indigenous Peoples
Shared Breath: Human and Nonhuman Copresence through Ritualized Words and Beyond
We introduce and elaborate on the notion of "shared breath" as a way of understanding human and nonhuman copresence and offer descriptions and narratives about three Indigenous groups in Russia and Canada, namely, Veps, Western Woods Cree, and Interior Salish St'at'imc. These data illustrate vividly how the underused metaphor of shared breath sheds light on active participation in life by and respectful relations with nonhuman beings, thus surpas…
Encountering Moose in a Changing Landscape: Sociality, Intentionality, and Emplaced Relationships
Drawing on research among Cree and Métis hunters, we consider how moose enter into situated relationships with humans, other beings, and one another. Moose engage in communicative acts exhibiting embodied intentionality and a relational theory of mind. Moose intentionalities and subjectivities are partly knowable to hunters through the co-constructed perceptual lens that develops as moose and humans make homes together in a shared landscape - a '…
Wood Buffalo National Park and the politics of shame: Indigenous advocacy at Unesco's World Heritage Committee
Note de la rédaction
L es infrastructures semblent faire la une de l'actualité au Canada.Rarement utilisé dans les médias jusqu'à récemment, ce terme quelque peu technique est désormais omniprésent.Compte tenu de la transformation des relations du Canada avec les États-Unis et le reste du monde, les infrastructures -qui prennent souvent la forme de grands projets d'extraction et de corridors de transport -occupent désormais une place prépondérante dans les nouveaux i…
Notes des rédacteurs
Bringing past into present: Transitions, truth and reckoning with unmarked residential school graves
This conversation began as a roundtable at the 2023 joint meeting of the American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Anthropology Society in Toronto. The roundtable was part of the Executive Program and was intended as a follow-up to Kisha Supernant’s keynote presentation, which was entitled ‘Truth before transition. Reimagining anthropology as restorative justice.’ Considering the sensitive nature of the topic, we responded to a select…
Trickster Tales: The Various Anthropologies of Robert Brightman
Indigenous Studies and Ecology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Indigenous (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works)