Richard J Preston
Biographic Data
| ID | 77568 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard J Preston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard J |
| FAMILY NAME | Preston |
| SIGNATURE | PRESTON R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 399 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Politics of Community Relocation: An Eastern Cree Example
In the fall of 1977 the Nemaska Band held a meeting with representatives of the Grand Council of the Crees (of Quebec), Peat, Marwick & Partners, Daniel Arbour & Associates, DINA, and some other consultants. The meeting was held at the proposed site for the new Nemaska community, and lasted four days. It began with a bear feast and ended with a community plan. In the five years following, much of the plan has been successfully implemented. This c…
A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature: Essays in Honour of Richard Slobodin
Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature: Essays in Honour of Richard Slobodin
The White Man's Gonna Getcha: The Colonial Challenge to the Crees in Quebec (review)
Reviewed by: The White Man's Gonna Getcha: The Colonial Challenge to the Crees in Quebec Richard J. Preston Toby Morantz , The White Man's Gonna Getcha: The Colonial Challenge to the Crees in Quebec. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2002, 382 pp. Dr. Morantz has created something new in the scholarly literature on the Canadian North; tracing regional historical processes in the wider context of political economy, with emphasis on 20th ce…
The White Man's Gonna Getcha: The Colonial Challenge to the Crees in Quebec
Morantz shows that with the imposition of administration from the south the Crees had to confront a new set of foreigners whose ideas and plans were very different from those of the fur traders. In the 1930s and 1940s government intervention helped overcome the disastrous disappearance of the beaver through the creation of government-decreed preserves and a ban on beaver hunting, but beginning in the 1950s a revolving array of socio-economic prog…
Cree Narrative: Expressing the Personal Meanings of Events
Cree Narrative: Expressing the Personal Meaning of Events
An Ethnography of Personal Meanings
The Persistence of Aboriginal Land Use: Fish and Wildlife Harvest Areas in the Hudson and James Bay Lowland, Ontario
The question of the extent and importance of contemporary aboriginal land use in the Canadian North remains controversial, despite more than 20 studies undertaken since the mid-1970s to document Native land claims and to assess impacts of development projects. In planning a community and regional development strategy that takes into account traditional land use and economy, methodologies were developed for a computer-based, integrated land use an…
Aboriginal Harvesting in the Moose River Basin: A Historical and Contemporary Analysis
Les territoires traditionnels de chasse et de trappe des Cris dans les régions méridionales du bassin de Moose River ont été infiltrés au début du XXe siècle, par les colons euro‐canadiens et l'exploitation des ressources qui s'est ensuivie, avec l'encouragement actif du gouvernement provincial. Après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, ces tendances se sont également propagées au nord du bassin. Selon de nombreux contemporains, l'économie basée sur la …
Arctic Revolution: Social Change in the Northwest Territories 1935-1993
Wildlife Harvesting and Sustainable Regional Native Economy in the Hudson and James Bay Lowland, Ontario
To assist the Omushkego Cree in planning a community and regional economic development strategy that takes into account the traditional economy, we developed appropriate methodologies to investigate the quantitative importance and economic value of hunting and fishing for the Mushkegowuk region, Hudson and James Bay Lowland. Harvests of wildlife by the 6500 aboriginal residents of eight communities - Moose Factory, Moosonee, New Post, Fort Albany…
The Taso Research Program: Retrospect and Prospect
Collaborative interdisciplinary research teams are still rel atively unusual within the social sciences. Teams that combine both social and physical scientists are even more rare. Yet there are major research opportunities and challenges offered when distinct, yet com plementary, foci of expertise are brought to bear on a common empiri cal problem. In this paper, we begin by introducing McMaster University's Re search Program for Technology Asses…
Interference and Its Consequences: An East Cree Variant of Deviance
Cry of the Eagle: Encounters with a Cree Healer. David Young, Grant Ingram, and Lise Swartz
Edward Sapir: Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist. Regna Darnell
Going in Between”: The Impact of European Technology on the Work Patterns of the West Main Cree of Northern Ontario
The West Main Cree of northern Ontario adapted readily but selectively to the European technologies and institutions made available by the fur trade. Yet some basic cultural and psychological differences regarding the accumulation of wealth, attitudes to work, and dependence on relief and government transfers complicated Indian-European relations. In a rational attempt to compromise among today's complex choices, the Cree have abandoned their tra…
Introduction: Reflections on Territoriality
Richard J. Preston, Introduction: Reflections on Territoriality, Anthropologica, New Series, Vol. 28, No. 1/2, À qui appartient le castor? Les régimes fonciers algonquins du nord remis en cause / Who Owns the Beaver? Northern Algonquian Land Tenure Reconsidered (1986), pp. 11-17
Mental Imagery Cultivation as a Cultural Phenomenon: The Role of Visions in Shamanism [and Comments and Reply]
The ability to experience mental imagery is innate in human beings. "Mental imagery cultivation" is proposed to identify technological traditions devoted to the deliberate, repeated induction of enhanced mental imagery, usually in select individuals. Mental imagery enhancement training increases the vividness and the controlledness of mental imagery for its functional and adaptive value. Mental imagery cultivation is usually embedded within magic…
Food Sharing Among Ache Foragers: Tests of Explanatory Hypotheses [and Comments and Reply]
This paper aims to describe and explain aspects of food sharing among Ache hunter-gatherers of eastern Paraguay. Food sharing has been widely held to be a fundamental feature of the hunting and gathering way of life and has been hypothesized to have played a major role in the evolution of language, intelligence, and the sexual division of labor. The very general question that guided the research is: What factors are responsible for the evolution …
The Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems from the Swampy Cree Indians
An Ethnohistoric Study of Eastern James Bay Cree Social Organization, 1700-1850
General/Theoretical: Culture and Ethos
Reflections on Sapir's Anthropology in Canada (1980)
Magic: A Theoretical Reassessment [and Comments and Replies]
Comparison of aspects of magical belief and practice with elements identified in experimental parapsychology suggests that some magical phenomena may have their basis in what parapsychology in call psi. Similarities are found between magic and parapsychology in (1) conditions that facilitate the manifestation of magical and psi phenomena, (2) the mental processes implicated as effective in producing magical and psi phenomena, (3) the basic princi…
Food Sharing Among Ache Foragers: Tests of Explanatory Hypotheses [and Comments and Reply]
This paper aims to describe and explain aspects of food sharing among Ache hunter-gatherers of eastern Paraguay. Food sharing has been widely held to be a fundamental feature of the hunting and gathering way of life and has been hypothesized to have played a major role in the evolution of language, intelligence, and the sexual division of labor. The very general question that guided the research is: What factors are responsible for the evolution …
The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive Culture [and Comments and Reply]
The reappearance of the metaphor concept in ethnologic inquiry suggests the need for a clearer trope-ology than we now possess. Metaphor (and metonym) is defined here as the predication of a sign-image upon any of the set of inchoate pronouns-the essential social subjects. The study of metaphor is the study of the way these subjects take objects unto themselves or are assigned them-the way that, in the parlance of G. H. Mead, they "take the other…
Mental Imagery Cultivation as a Cultural Phenomenon: The Role of Visions in Shamanism [and Comments and Reply]
The ability to experience mental imagery is innate in human beings. "Mental imagery cultivation" is proposed to identify technological traditions devoted to the deliberate, repeated induction of enhanced mental imagery, usually in select individuals. Mental imagery enhancement training increases the vividness and the controlledness of mental imagery for its functional and adaptive value. Mental imagery cultivation is usually embedded within magic…
Magic: A Theoretical Reassessment [and Comments and Replies]
Comparison of aspects of magical belief and practice with elements identified in experimental parapsychology suggests that some magical phenomena may have their basis in what parapsychology in call psi. Similarities are found between magic and parapsychology in (1) conditions that facilitate the manifestation of magical and psi phenomena, (2) the mental processes implicated as effective in producing magical and psi phenomena, (3) the basic princi…
Windigo Psychosis: The Anatomy of an Emic-Etic Confusion [and Comments and Reply]
Although "windigo psychosis" has served as a classic example of culture-bound psychopathology for almost half a century, five years' field experience among Northern Algonkians, extensive archival research, and a critical examination of the literature indicate that there probably never were any windigo psychotics in an etic/behavioral sense. When the windigo phenomenon is considered from the point of view of group sociodynamics rather than from th…
Understanding in Anthropology: A Philosophical Reminder [and Comments and Replies]
The task of anthropology consists in describing and explaining cultures and ultimately reaching an understanding of them through interpretation. The practical difficulties of this are obvious to all those who have dealth with members of another culture. As Malinowski observed, the anthropologist's task is to be "the interpreter of the native." It is suggested that some of the principles elucidated in the philosophical discipline of hermeneutics, …
Edward Sapir's Anthropology: Style, Structure, and Method
Sapir's writings on the relation of personality and culture are discussed with regard to their distinctive and challenging approach to ethnology. The lack of professional controversy over Sapir is explored. A distinction is formulated between imposed structure and inherent cultural structure; following from this distinction, Sapir's personalized approach is examined for its implications for ethnographic method
Going in Between”: The Impact of European Technology on the Work Patterns of the West Main Cree of Northern Ontario
The West Main Cree of northern Ontario adapted readily but selectively to the European technologies and institutions made available by the fur trade. Yet some basic cultural and psychological differences regarding the accumulation of wealth, attitudes to work, and dependence on relief and government transfers complicated Indian-European relations. In a rational attempt to compromise among today's complex choices, the Cree have abandoned their tra…
The Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems from the Swampy Cree Indians
Ritual Hangings: An Aboriginal 'Survival' in a Northern North American Trapping Community
Arctic Revolution: Social Change in the Northwest Territories 1935-1993
Value Themes of the Native American Tribalistic Movement Among the South Dakota Sioux
In 1967 and the years following, many Sioux were beginning to question that assimilation into various social strata of Anglo American society was inevitable, and there was a tendency toward identification with the Sioux "tribal heritage." This tribalistic movement, the local expression of a general movement among Native Americans in Canada and the United States, appears to be having a profound effect on the values of the Sioux. It represents a cu…
Recent Developments in Culture and Personality
The Politics of Community Relocation: An Eastern Cree Example
In the fall of 1977 the Nemaska Band held a meeting with representatives of the Grand Council of the Crees (of Quebec), Peat, Marwick & Partners, Daniel Arbour & Associates, DINA, and some other consultants. The meeting was held at the proposed site for the new Nemaska community, and lasted four days. It began with a bear feast and ended with a community plan. In the five years following, much of the plan has been successfully implemented. This c…
The White Man's Gonna Getcha: The Colonial Challenge to the Crees in Quebec
Morantz shows that with the imposition of administration from the south the Crees had to confront a new set of foreigners whose ideas and plans were very different from those of the fur traders. In the 1930s and 1940s government intervention helped overcome the disastrous disappearance of the beaver through the creation of government-decreed preserves and a ban on beaver hunting, but beginning in the 1950s a revolving array of socio-economic prog…
Aboriginal Harvesting in the Moose River Basin: A Historical and Contemporary Analysis
Les territoires traditionnels de chasse et de trappe des Cris dans les régions méridionales du bassin de Moose River ont été infiltrés au début du XXe siècle, par les colons euro‐canadiens et l'exploitation des ressources qui s'est ensuivie, avec l'encouragement actif du gouvernement provincial. Après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, ces tendances se sont également propagées au nord du bassin. Selon de nombreux contemporains, l'économie basée sur la …
Introduction: Reflections on Territoriality
Richard J. Preston, Introduction: Reflections on Territoriality, Anthropologica, New Series, Vol. 28, No. 1/2, À qui appartient le castor? Les régimes fonciers algonquins du nord remis en cause / Who Owns the Beaver? Northern Algonquian Land Tenure Reconsidered (1986), pp. 11-17
A survey of ethnographic approaches to the Eastern Cree‐Montagnais‐Naskapi
Professional ethnographers selected on the basis of extensive field research and publication are described in terms of the duration of their fieldwork, their ethnographic orientation, language competence, and bibliography. While the orientation to fieldwork and to analytical writing has changed since 1908, the change has not led to integrative theoretical work. Some of the basic, hard questions for anthropologists are at stake, and the materials …
Ritual Hangings: An Aboriginal 'Survival' in a Northern North American Trapping Community
Recent Developments in Culture and Personality
Edward Sapir's Anthropology: Style, Structure, and Method
Sapir's writings on the relation of personality and culture are discussed with regard to their distinctive and challenging approach to ethnology. The lack of professional controversy over Sapir is explored. A distinction is formulated between imposed structure and inherent cultural structure; following from this distinction, Sapir's personalized approach is examined for its implications for ethnographic method
General and Ethnology: Le Nouveau-Québec: Contribution à l'étude de l'occupation humaine. Jean Malaurie and Jacques Rousseau
Ethnology: American Indian Life. Elsie CLEWS Parsons, ed
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access RICHARD PRESTON RICHARD PRESTON Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXV, Issue 334, January 1970, Pages 210-a–210, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXV.334.210-a Published: 01 January 1970
General and Ethnology: Contributions to Anthropology: Ecological Essays. D avid D amas , ed
Now That the Buffalo's Gone and The Exiles: A Comment
The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive Culture [and Comments and Reply]
The reappearance of the metaphor concept in ethnologic inquiry suggests the need for a clearer trope-ology than we now possess. Metaphor (and metonym) is defined here as the predication of a sign-image upon any of the set of inchoate pronouns-the essential social subjects. The study of metaphor is the study of the way these subjects take objects unto themselves or are assigned them-the way that, in the parlance of G. H. Mead, they "take the other…
Value Themes of the Native American Tribalistic Movement Among the South Dakota Sioux
In 1967 and the years following, many Sioux were beginning to question that assimilation into various social strata of Anglo American society was inevitable, and there was a tendency toward identification with the Sioux "tribal heritage." This tribalistic movement, the local expression of a general movement among Native Americans in Canada and the United States, appears to be having a profound effect on the values of the Sioux. It represents a cu…
A survey of ethnographic approaches to the Eastern Cree‐Montagnais‐Naskapi
Professional ethnographers selected on the basis of extensive field research and publication are described in terms of the duration of their fieldwork, their ethnographic orientation, language competence, and bibliography. While the orientation to fieldwork and to analytical writing has changed since 1908, the change has not led to integrative theoretical work. Some of the basic, hard questions for anthropologists are at stake, and the materials …
Understanding in Anthropology: A Philosophical Reminder [and Comments and Replies]
The task of anthropology consists in describing and explaining cultures and ultimately reaching an understanding of them through interpretation. The practical difficulties of this are obvious to all those who have dealth with members of another culture. As Malinowski observed, the anthropologist's task is to be "the interpreter of the native." It is suggested that some of the principles elucidated in the philosophical discipline of hermeneutics, …
Northern Development: A Paper for Discussion
Reflections on Sapir's anthropology in Canada
The years 1910 to 1925 cover Sapir's residence in Ottawa; they were significant for his personal development, for his participation in the professionalization of Canadian anthropology, and for his substantial and original contributions to anthropology as a cosmopolitan discipline. These three perspectives ‐ personal, professional and disciplinary ‐ are used in this paper to depict schematically some important aspects of his genius and his career.…
Magic: A Theoretical Reassessment [and Comments and Replies]
Comparison of aspects of magical belief and practice with elements identified in experimental parapsychology suggests that some magical phenomena may have their basis in what parapsychology in call psi. Similarities are found between magic and parapsychology in (1) conditions that facilitate the manifestation of magical and psi phenomena, (2) the mental processes implicated as effective in producing magical and psi phenomena, (3) the basic princi…
Windigo Psychosis: The Anatomy of an Emic-Etic Confusion [and Comments and Reply]
Although "windigo psychosis" has served as a classic example of culture-bound psychopathology for almost half a century, five years' field experience among Northern Algonkians, extensive archival research, and a critical examination of the literature indicate that there probably never were any windigo psychotics in an etic/behavioral sense. When the windigo phenomenon is considered from the point of view of group sociodynamics rather than from th…
Reflections on Sapir's Anthropology in Canada (1980)
Mental Imagery Cultivation as a Cultural Phenomenon: The Role of Visions in Shamanism [and Comments and Reply]
The ability to experience mental imagery is innate in human beings. "Mental imagery cultivation" is proposed to identify technological traditions devoted to the deliberate, repeated induction of enhanced mental imagery, usually in select individuals. Mental imagery enhancement training increases the vividness and the controlledness of mental imagery for its functional and adaptive value. Mental imagery cultivation is usually embedded within magic…
Food Sharing Among Ache Foragers: Tests of Explanatory Hypotheses [and Comments and Reply]
This paper aims to describe and explain aspects of food sharing among Ache hunter-gatherers of eastern Paraguay. Food sharing has been widely held to be a fundamental feature of the hunting and gathering way of life and has been hypothesized to have played a major role in the evolution of language, intelligence, and the sexual division of labor. The very general question that guided the research is: What factors are responsible for the evolution …
The Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems from the Swampy Cree Indians
An Ethnohistoric Study of Eastern James Bay Cree Social Organization, 1700-1850
General/Theoretical: Culture and Ethos
Introduction: Reflections on Territoriality
Richard J. Preston, Introduction: Reflections on Territoriality, Anthropologica, New Series, Vol. 28, No. 1/2, À qui appartient le castor? Les régimes fonciers algonquins du nord remis en cause / Who Owns the Beaver? Northern Algonquian Land Tenure Reconsidered (1986), pp. 11-17
Going in Between”: The Impact of European Technology on the Work Patterns of the West Main Cree of Northern Ontario
The West Main Cree of northern Ontario adapted readily but selectively to the European technologies and institutions made available by the fur trade. Yet some basic cultural and psychological differences regarding the accumulation of wealth, attitudes to work, and dependence on relief and government transfers complicated Indian-European relations. In a rational attempt to compromise among today's complex choices, the Cree have abandoned their tra…
Interference and Its Consequences: An East Cree Variant of Deviance
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