Robert Brightman
Biographic Data
| ID | 90366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Brightman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Brightman |
| SIGNATURE | BRIGHTMAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Reed College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 250 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Conservation and Resource Depletion: The Case of the Boreal Forest Algonquians
Marshall David Sahlins (1930-2021)
Voicing the ancestors II: Readings in memory of George Stocking
This is the second Forum in which anthropologists give voice to a disciplinary ancestral figure of their choice. The goal is to bring to our attention the wisdom of anthropologists who were prominent at one time in the history of our discipline but whose work has fallen out of fashion or perhaps simply been buried beneath the accumulated scholarly production of their successors. Listening to these voices reminds us that however much scholarly fas…
Hierarchy and conflict in mutual being
Comment on Sahlins, Marshall. 2013. What kinship is-and is not. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
The Western Illusion of Human Nature. Marshall Sahlins
Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships
Traditions of Subversion and the Subversion of Tradition: Cultural Criticism in Maidu Clown Performances
Reflecting changing disciplinary orientation, recent perspectives on non-Western ritual clowns have rejected earlier functionalist interpretations and foregrounded themes of criticism, deconstruction, and subversion. In this essay, I interpret a ritual clown performance formerly practiced by the Northwestern Maidu of California both as an objectification, by way of symbolic inversion, of valorized cultural forms and as a metasociological discours…
The Sexual Division of Foraging Labor: Biology, Taboo, and Gender Politics
If women's biology is their economic destiny, nowhere is this destiny more inexorable than in anthropological representations of the sexual division of foraging labor. Physically weak, immobilized by nursing children, engrossed in the provisioning of reliable plant foods, redolent with odors that drive away the game, and subject finally to the axiom that specialization everywhere increases productivity, the foraging woman who gathers but does not…
Forget Culture: Replacement, Transcendence, Relexification
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century. Sergei Kan
The Orders of the Dreamed: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823
Kenekuk, The Kickapoo Prophet
Journal Article Kenekuk, The Kickapoo Prophet and “The Orders of the Dreamed”: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823 Get access Kenekuk, The Kickapoo Prophet. By Herring Joseph B.. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1988. xii + 176 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95.)“The Orders of the Dreamed”: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823. By Jennifer S. H. Brown Rober…
The Orders of the Dreamed: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823
Among Anglo-Canadian fur traders of the early nineteenth century, George Nelson stands out for his interest in the life and ways of the native people he encountered. In 1823 Nelson was serving as a HudsonAEs Bay Company clerk in charge of the post at Lac la Ronge, an outpost of Ile a la Crosse in northeastern Saskatchewan. During that time he kept a letter-journal, addressed to his father, in which he related his observations of Cree and Northern…
The Orders of the Dreamed: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823
Primitivism in Missinippi Cree Historical Consciousness
The Missinippi Crees of northwestern Manitoba preserve traditions of two primitive anthropomorphic races' chronologically more ancient and culturally less complex than contemporary humans. Dunng the course of involvement in the European fur trade and more recent expenences of sedentarisation and subjection to Euro-Canadian influences, Crees have identified these bemgs with representations of earlier and indigenous conditions of their own society.…
The Orders of the Dreamed: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823
Tricksters and Ethnopoetics
The Windigo in the Material World
Reconsideration of documentary evidence indicates that the Subarctic Algonquian complex was of probable prehistoric inception, that a cor- relative psychiatric disorder entailing cannibalistic ideation and behavior is his- torically demonstrable, and that existing ecological explanations of the complex fail to elucidate its origin, persistence, characteristics, and distribution. Exami- nation of the complex from structural, pragmatic, and ideolog…
The Indefinite Possessor Prefix in Woods Cree
On Windigo Psychosis
The implacable raspberry
Northern Cheyenne is used to illustrate the semantic basic of the the animate gender in Algonquian. Nouns are in two gender classes, inanimate and animate; the latter includes all persons, animals, spirits, and large trees, and some other objects such as tobacco, maize, apple, raspberry (but not strawberry), calf of leg (but not thigh), stomach, spittle, feather, bird's tail, horn, kettle, pipe for smoking, snowshoes. Leonard Bloomfield (1946: 44…
Forget Culture: Replacement, Transcendence, Relexification
Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships
The Sexual Division of Foraging Labor: Biology, Taboo, and Gender Politics
If women's biology is their economic destiny, nowhere is this destiny more inexorable than in anthropological representations of the sexual division of foraging labor. Physically weak, immobilized by nursing children, engrossed in the provisioning of reliable plant foods, redolent with odors that drive away the game, and subject finally to the axiom that specialization everywhere increases productivity, the foraging woman who gathers but does not…
Hierarchy and conflict in mutual being
Comment on Sahlins, Marshall. 2013. What kinship is-and is not. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
The Orders of the Dreamed: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823
Among Anglo-Canadian fur traders of the early nineteenth century, George Nelson stands out for his interest in the life and ways of the native people he encountered. In 1823 Nelson was serving as a HudsonAEs Bay Company clerk in charge of the post at Lac la Ronge, an outpost of Ile a la Crosse in northeastern Saskatchewan. During that time he kept a letter-journal, addressed to his father, in which he related his observations of Cree and Northern…
Traditions of Subversion and the Subversion of Tradition: Cultural Criticism in Maidu Clown Performances
Reflecting changing disciplinary orientation, recent perspectives on non-Western ritual clowns have rejected earlier functionalist interpretations and foregrounded themes of criticism, deconstruction, and subversion. In this essay, I interpret a ritual clown performance formerly practiced by the Northwestern Maidu of California both as an objectification, by way of symbolic inversion, of valorized cultural forms and as a metasociological discours…
Primitivism in Missinippi Cree Historical Consciousness
The Missinippi Crees of northwestern Manitoba preserve traditions of two primitive anthropomorphic races' chronologically more ancient and culturally less complex than contemporary humans. Dunng the course of involvement in the European fur trade and more recent expenences of sedentarisation and subjection to Euro-Canadian influences, Crees have identified these bemgs with representations of earlier and indigenous conditions of their own society.…
Voicing the ancestors II: Readings in memory of George Stocking
This is the second Forum in which anthropologists give voice to a disciplinary ancestral figure of their choice. The goal is to bring to our attention the wisdom of anthropologists who were prominent at one time in the history of our discipline but whose work has fallen out of fashion or perhaps simply been buried beneath the accumulated scholarly production of their successors. Listening to these voices reminds us that however much scholarly fas…
The Orders of the Dreamed: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823
The Indefinite Possessor Prefix in Woods Cree
Marshall David Sahlins (1930-2021)
The Windigo in the Material World
Reconsideration of documentary evidence indicates that the Subarctic Algonquian complex was of probable prehistoric inception, that a cor- relative psychiatric disorder entailing cannibalistic ideation and behavior is his- torically demonstrable, and that existing ecological explanations of the complex fail to elucidate its origin, persistence, characteristics, and distribution. Exami- nation of the complex from structural, pragmatic, and ideolog…
The implacable raspberry
Northern Cheyenne is used to illustrate the semantic basic of the the animate gender in Algonquian. Nouns are in two gender classes, inanimate and animate; the latter includes all persons, animals, spirits, and large trees, and some other objects such as tobacco, maize, apple, raspberry (but not strawberry), calf of leg (but not thigh), stomach, spittle, feather, bird's tail, horn, kettle, pipe for smoking, snowshoes. Leonard Bloomfield (1946: 44…
On Windigo Psychosis
The Indefinite Possessor Prefix in Woods Cree
The Windigo in the Material World
Reconsideration of documentary evidence indicates that the Subarctic Algonquian complex was of probable prehistoric inception, that a cor- relative psychiatric disorder entailing cannibalistic ideation and behavior is his- torically demonstrable, and that existing ecological explanations of the complex fail to elucidate its origin, persistence, characteristics, and distribution. Exami- nation of the complex from structural, pragmatic, and ideolog…
The Orders of the Dreamed: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823
Tricksters and Ethnopoetics
Kenekuk, The Kickapoo Prophet
Journal Article Kenekuk, The Kickapoo Prophet and “The Orders of the Dreamed”: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823 Get access Kenekuk, The Kickapoo Prophet. By Herring Joseph B.. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1988. xii + 176 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95.)“The Orders of the Dreamed”: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823. By Jennifer S. H. Brown Rober…
The Orders of the Dreamed: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823
Among Anglo-Canadian fur traders of the early nineteenth century, George Nelson stands out for his interest in the life and ways of the native people he encountered. In 1823 Nelson was serving as a HudsonAEs Bay Company clerk in charge of the post at Lac la Ronge, an outpost of Ile a la Crosse in northeastern Saskatchewan. During that time he kept a letter-journal, addressed to his father, in which he related his observations of Cree and Northern…
The Orders of the Dreamed: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823
Primitivism in Missinippi Cree Historical Consciousness
The Missinippi Crees of northwestern Manitoba preserve traditions of two primitive anthropomorphic races' chronologically more ancient and culturally less complex than contemporary humans. Dunng the course of involvement in the European fur trade and more recent expenences of sedentarisation and subjection to Euro-Canadian influences, Crees have identified these bemgs with representations of earlier and indigenous conditions of their own society.…
The Orders of the Dreamed: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century. Sergei Kan
Forget Culture: Replacement, Transcendence, Relexification
The Sexual Division of Foraging Labor: Biology, Taboo, and Gender Politics
If women's biology is their economic destiny, nowhere is this destiny more inexorable than in anthropological representations of the sexual division of foraging labor. Physically weak, immobilized by nursing children, engrossed in the provisioning of reliable plant foods, redolent with odors that drive away the game, and subject finally to the axiom that specialization everywhere increases productivity, the foraging woman who gathers but does not…
Traditions of Subversion and the Subversion of Tradition: Cultural Criticism in Maidu Clown Performances
Reflecting changing disciplinary orientation, recent perspectives on non-Western ritual clowns have rejected earlier functionalist interpretations and foregrounded themes of criticism, deconstruction, and subversion. In this essay, I interpret a ritual clown performance formerly practiced by the Northwestern Maidu of California both as an objectification, by way of symbolic inversion, of valorized cultural forms and as a metasociological discours…
Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships
The Western Illusion of Human Nature. Marshall Sahlins
Hierarchy and conflict in mutual being
Comment on Sahlins, Marshall. 2013. What kinship is-and is not. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Voicing the ancestors II: Readings in memory of George Stocking
This is the second Forum in which anthropologists give voice to a disciplinary ancestral figure of their choice. The goal is to bring to our attention the wisdom of anthropologists who were prominent at one time in the history of our discipline but whose work has fallen out of fashion or perhaps simply been buried beneath the accumulated scholarly production of their successors. Listening to these voices reminds us that however much scholarly fas…
Marshall David Sahlins (1930-2021)
Conservation and Resource Depletion: The Case of the Boreal Forest Algonquians
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