Elizabeth Furni
Biographic Data
| ID | 628286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Furni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Furni |
| SIGNATURE | FURNI E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cultural Performance as Strategic Essentialism: Negotiating Indianness in a Western Canadian Rodeo Festival
9 Elizabeth Furniss, In the Spirit of the Pioneers, pp.174-85, 216-28.'° And in keeping with my theoretical argument, these outcomes cannot be determined by an observer's 'reading' of a ritual-they must be ethnographically demonstrated through tracing the application and consequences of cultural representations in a social context
Cycles of History in Plateau Sociopolitical Organization: Reflections on the Nature of Indigenous Band Societies
The nature of indigenous band societies is examined through an analysis of the historical dynamics of sociopolitical organization among the Secwepemc of the northern Plateau. Secwepemc history is characterized by recurrent tensions between the autonomy of extended family groups and the solidarity of the band collective. Unlike earlier static, and trait-based models of Plateau culture,this processual and historically grounded model of sociopolitic…
The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community
Elizabeth Furniss, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999, xii + 237 pages, ISBN 0-7748-0710-5.Reviewer: M.J. WhittlesUniversity College of the CaribooPopular images of contemporary Canada paint a picture that is often naively presumed to be one of a modern postcolonial nation-state: a territory previously optimized as a settler colony, yet granted dominion status 135 years ago, henceforth politically independent, with few, if weak…
Aboriginal Justice, the Media, and the Symbolic Management of Aboriginal/Euro-Canadian Relations
In 1992 the government of British Columbia launched a public inquiry to investigate persistent allegations that Aboriginal people in the central interior of the province were being subjected to racial prejudice and unfair treatment by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the provincial justice system. Over a six-month period the Cariboo Chilcotin justice inquiry held hearings in ten of the fifteen Tsilhqot’in, Carrier, and Secwepemc reser…
Rednecks, Eggheads and Blackfellas: A Study of Racial Power and Intimacy in Australia
This book brings the reader to the lives of people on a cattle station in Australia''s Northern Territory. The author makes arguments about race relations, showing how the policy of self-determination for Aboriginal people has had results.'
The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community
Journal Article The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community Get access The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community. By Furniss Elizabeth. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999. xii + 237 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $75.00.) Bill Waiser Bill Waiser University of Saskatchewan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…
Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing Conceptions and Possibilities
Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing Conceptions and Possibilities. Nicolas Peterson and Will Sanders, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ix. 222 pp., index
From the Ruins of Colonialism: History as Social Memory
Prologue: From the ruins of colonialism Part I. In the Beginning: 1. Captain Cook and genesis: white histories of Cook 2. Captain Cook and death: black histories of Cook Part II. Installing Memory: 3. We remember for you: the memory work of museums 4. 'History is disliked': the memory work of schooling Part III. In the Event: 5. Battle memories: echoes of Eureka 6. Eliza Fraser and the impossibility of postcolonial history
Victims of Benevolence: The Dark Legacy of the Williams Lake Residential School
Resistance, Coercion, and Revitalization: The Shuswap Encounter with Roman Catholic Missionaries, 1860-1900
Les activites missionnaires chez les Indiens Shuswap du centre de la Colombie britannique ont mene a la conversion catholique et a une reorganisation de la vie de village suivant une administration hierarchique imposee par l'Eglise. En fonction des contextes sociaux et economiques, la rencontre interculturelle evolua entre l'acceptation et le rejet avant de parvenir a la conversion et a la revitalisation
Cultural Performance as Strategic Essentialism: Negotiating Indianness in a Western Canadian Rodeo Festival
9 Elizabeth Furniss, In the Spirit of the Pioneers, pp.174-85, 216-28.'° And in keeping with my theoretical argument, these outcomes cannot be determined by an observer's 'reading' of a ritual-they must be ethnographically demonstrated through tracing the application and consequences of cultural representations in a social context
Aboriginal Justice, the Media, and the Symbolic Management of Aboriginal/Euro-Canadian Relations
In 1992 the government of British Columbia launched a public inquiry to investigate persistent allegations that Aboriginal people in the central interior of the province were being subjected to racial prejudice and unfair treatment by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the provincial justice system. Over a six-month period the Cariboo Chilcotin justice inquiry held hearings in ten of the fifteen Tsilhqot’in, Carrier, and Secwepemc reser…
Resistance, Coercion, and Revitalization: The Shuswap Encounter with Roman Catholic Missionaries, 1860-1900
Les activites missionnaires chez les Indiens Shuswap du centre de la Colombie britannique ont mene a la conversion catholique et a une reorganisation de la vie de village suivant une administration hierarchique imposee par l'Eglise. En fonction des contextes sociaux et economiques, la rencontre interculturelle evolua entre l'acceptation et le rejet avant de parvenir a la conversion et a la revitalisation
Cycles of History in Plateau Sociopolitical Organization: Reflections on the Nature of Indigenous Band Societies
The nature of indigenous band societies is examined through an analysis of the historical dynamics of sociopolitical organization among the Secwepemc of the northern Plateau. Secwepemc history is characterized by recurrent tensions between the autonomy of extended family groups and the solidarity of the band collective. Unlike earlier static, and trait-based models of Plateau culture,this processual and historically grounded model of sociopolitic…
Resistance, Coercion, and Revitalization: The Shuswap Encounter with Roman Catholic Missionaries, 1860-1900
Les activites missionnaires chez les Indiens Shuswap du centre de la Colombie britannique ont mene a la conversion catholique et a une reorganisation de la vie de village suivant une administration hierarchique imposee par l'Eglise. En fonction des contextes sociaux et economiques, la rencontre interculturelle evolua entre l'acceptation et le rejet avant de parvenir a la conversion et a la revitalisation
Victims of Benevolence: The Dark Legacy of the Williams Lake Residential School
From the Ruins of Colonialism: History as Social Memory
Prologue: From the ruins of colonialism Part I. In the Beginning: 1. Captain Cook and genesis: white histories of Cook 2. Captain Cook and death: black histories of Cook Part II. Installing Memory: 3. We remember for you: the memory work of museums 4. 'History is disliked': the memory work of schooling Part III. In the Event: 5. Battle memories: echoes of Eureka 6. Eliza Fraser and the impossibility of postcolonial history
The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community
Journal Article The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community Get access The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community. By Furniss Elizabeth. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999. xii + 237 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $75.00.) Bill Waiser Bill Waiser University of Saskatchewan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…
Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing Conceptions and Possibilities
Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing Conceptions and Possibilities. Nicolas Peterson and Will Sanders, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ix. 222 pp., index
Aboriginal Justice, the Media, and the Symbolic Management of Aboriginal/Euro-Canadian Relations
In 1992 the government of British Columbia launched a public inquiry to investigate persistent allegations that Aboriginal people in the central interior of the province were being subjected to racial prejudice and unfair treatment by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the provincial justice system. Over a six-month period the Cariboo Chilcotin justice inquiry held hearings in ten of the fifteen Tsilhqot’in, Carrier, and Secwepemc reser…
Rednecks, Eggheads and Blackfellas: A Study of Racial Power and Intimacy in Australia
This book brings the reader to the lives of people on a cattle station in Australia''s Northern Territory. The author makes arguments about race relations, showing how the policy of self-determination for Aboriginal people has had results.'
The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community
Elizabeth Furniss, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999, xii + 237 pages, ISBN 0-7748-0710-5.Reviewer: M.J. WhittlesUniversity College of the CaribooPopular images of contemporary Canada paint a picture that is often naively presumed to be one of a modern postcolonial nation-state: a territory previously optimized as a settler colony, yet granted dominion status 135 years ago, henceforth politically independent, with few, if weak…
Cycles of History in Plateau Sociopolitical Organization: Reflections on the Nature of Indigenous Band Societies
The nature of indigenous band societies is examined through an analysis of the historical dynamics of sociopolitical organization among the Secwepemc of the northern Plateau. Secwepemc history is characterized by recurrent tensions between the autonomy of extended family groups and the solidarity of the band collective. Unlike earlier static, and trait-based models of Plateau culture,this processual and historically grounded model of sociopolitic…
Cultural Performance as Strategic Essentialism: Negotiating Indianness in a Western Canadian Rodeo Festival
9 Elizabeth Furniss, In the Spirit of the Pioneers, pp.174-85, 216-28.'° And in keeping with my theoretical argument, these outcomes cannot be determined by an observer's 'reading' of a ritual-they must be ethnographically demonstrated through tracing the application and consequences of cultural representations in a social context
Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Canadian Identity and History (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Classics (2 works)