Henry S Sharp
Biographic Data
| ID | 95613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henry S Sharp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henry S |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharp |
| SIGNATURE | SHARP H S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1947 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Power of Weakness
This chapter examines a mechanism through which individuals categorized as inferior are able to exercise control and power over individuals categorized as superior in power or knowledge. This mechanism is broadly based in Chipewyan culture, independent of gender relations, but particular attention is paid to a situation of apparent male domination. Traditional Chipewyan diet consisted almost entirely of animal tissue; the use of plants for food w…
A History of Dogs in the Early Americas
History of Dogs in the Early Americas. Marion Schwartz. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 233 pp
Native Liberty, Crown Sovereignty: The Existing Aboriginal Right of Self‐Government in Canada. BRUCE CLARK
Little Bit Know Something: Stories in a Language of Anthropology. Robin RIDINGTON
Wolverine Myths and Visions: Dene Traditions from Northern Alberta
The people who call themselves Den Dhaa, a group of the Athapaskan-speaking natives of northwestern Canada known as the Slave or Slavey Indians, now number about one thousand and occupy three reserves in northwestern Alberta. Because their settlements were until recently widely dispersed and isolated, they have maintained their language and traditions more successfully than most other Indian groups. This collection of their stories, recorded in t…
Memory, Meaning, and Imaginary Time: The Construction of Knowledge in White and Chipewyan Cultures
This article examines, through an analysis of the use of persons as sym- bols, the construction of ethnohistorical knowledge within white Canadian and Chipewyan Indian cultures in contact. An analysis of a brief scuffle between a Chipewyan and a white teacher and its consequences leads to a consideration of the scientific metaphors used in the construction of academic ethnohistorical knowledge. It is argued that consideration of a nondeterministi…
Trail to Heaven: Knowledge and Narrative in a Northern Native Community
The Transformation of Bigfoot: Maleness, Power and Belief among the Chipewyan
The Dakota of the Canadian Northwest: Lessons for Survival. Peter Douglas Elias
Reindeer Moon
The Transformation of Bigfoot: Maleness, Power and Belief Among the Chipewyan
Giant Fish, Giant Otters, and Dinosaurs: "Apparently irrational beliefs" in a Chipewyan community
Dan Sperber's recent formulations of Rationalism advocate a form of cognitive reductionism in the interpretation of "apparently irrational beliefs" that is contingent upon a linear model of brain functioning analogous to the operations of a computer. This paper considers several nonexistent beings among the Chipewyan, arguing that such reductionism is invalid. As shared forms, their meaning is consistently indeterminate and temporally nonlinear, …
Darwin and Sociobiology: A Reply to Turke
Shared Experience and Magical Death: Chipewyan Explanations of a Prophet's Decline
Subsequent to Ridington's (1968) benchmark identification ofthe medicine fight as political instrument among the Beaver Indians there has been substantive increase in understanding the symbolic ordering supernatural causality among the related Chipewyan. Smith (1973, 1982, 1985) has examined the role inkoze as sorcery in its relation to subsistence activities and traditional leadership at Fort Resolution in the Northwest Territories. This paper e…
Towards a New Theory of the Origin of the Family [and Comments and Reply]
The emergence of the monogamous family in human societies is not satisfactorily explained by traditional theories of its "natural" character or economic origins. This paper proposes a new theory based on sociobiological studies of altruism, a behaviour well-known in man and nonhuman primates. The starting point is the evolution of altruism, a behaviour which increases the chance of survival of the recipient at some cost to the performer. Altruism…
Wolf and man: Evolution in Parallel
Examines wolf behavior in comparison with that of early man.
The Chipewyan hunting unit
Canadian Athapaskan societies have proved difficult to analyze and classify because of the apparent lack of corporate features in the band. This apparent lack of band corporateness is in fact an accurate assessment of the ethnographic reality. Within Canadian Athapaskan society a restricted cognatic descent group, here called the hunting unit, exists that functions as a corporate group. The social boundaries of hunting units are not coextensive w…
Introducing the Sororate to a Northern Saskatchewan Chipewyan Village
Trapping and Welfare: The Economics of Trapping in a Northern Saskatchewan Chipewyan Village
Vocabulaire Geographique. Volume 2, Le Relief: Paysages morphologiques
La France. Part I, France Physique
Giant Fish, Giant Otters, and Dinosaurs: "Apparently irrational beliefs" in a Chipewyan community
Dan Sperber's recent formulations of Rationalism advocate a form of cognitive reductionism in the interpretation of "apparently irrational beliefs" that is contingent upon a linear model of brain functioning analogous to the operations of a computer. This paper considers several nonexistent beings among the Chipewyan, arguing that such reductionism is invalid. As shared forms, their meaning is consistently indeterminate and temporally nonlinear, …
Wolverine Myths and Visions: Dene Traditions from Northern Alberta
The people who call themselves Den Dhaa, a group of the Athapaskan-speaking natives of northwestern Canada known as the Slave or Slavey Indians, now number about one thousand and occupy three reserves in northwestern Alberta. Because their settlements were until recently widely dispersed and isolated, they have maintained their language and traditions more successfully than most other Indian groups. This collection of their stories, recorded in t…
Shared Experience and Magical Death: Chipewyan Explanations of a Prophet's Decline
Subsequent to Ridington's (1968) benchmark identification ofthe medicine fight as political instrument among the Beaver Indians there has been substantive increase in understanding the symbolic ordering supernatural causality among the related Chipewyan. Smith (1973, 1982, 1985) has examined the role inkoze as sorcery in its relation to subsistence activities and traditional leadership at Fort Resolution in the Northwest Territories. This paper e…
Towards a New Theory of the Origin of the Family [and Comments and Reply]
The emergence of the monogamous family in human societies is not satisfactorily explained by traditional theories of its "natural" character or economic origins. This paper proposes a new theory based on sociobiological studies of altruism, a behaviour well-known in man and nonhuman primates. The starting point is the evolution of altruism, a behaviour which increases the chance of survival of the recipient at some cost to the performer. Altruism…
The Chipewyan hunting unit
Canadian Athapaskan societies have proved difficult to analyze and classify because of the apparent lack of corporate features in the band. This apparent lack of band corporateness is in fact an accurate assessment of the ethnographic reality. Within Canadian Athapaskan society a restricted cognatic descent group, here called the hunting unit, exists that functions as a corporate group. The social boundaries of hunting units are not coextensive w…
The Transformation of Bigfoot: Maleness, Power and Belief among the Chipewyan
The Transformation of Bigfoot: Maleness, Power and Belief Among the Chipewyan
Introducing the Sororate to a Northern Saskatchewan Chipewyan Village
Trapping and Welfare: The Economics of Trapping in a Northern Saskatchewan Chipewyan Village
Memory, Meaning, and Imaginary Time: The Construction of Knowledge in White and Chipewyan Cultures
This article examines, through an analysis of the use of persons as sym- bols, the construction of ethnohistorical knowledge within white Canadian and Chipewyan Indian cultures in contact. An analysis of a brief scuffle between a Chipewyan and a white teacher and its consequences leads to a consideration of the scientific metaphors used in the construction of academic ethnohistorical knowledge. It is argued that consideration of a nondeterministi…
La France. Part I, France Physique
Vocabulaire Geographique. Volume 2, Le Relief: Paysages morphologiques
Introducing the Sororate to a Northern Saskatchewan Chipewyan Village
Trapping and Welfare: The Economics of Trapping in a Northern Saskatchewan Chipewyan Village
The Chipewyan hunting unit
Canadian Athapaskan societies have proved difficult to analyze and classify because of the apparent lack of corporate features in the band. This apparent lack of band corporateness is in fact an accurate assessment of the ethnographic reality. Within Canadian Athapaskan society a restricted cognatic descent group, here called the hunting unit, exists that functions as a corporate group. The social boundaries of hunting units are not coextensive w…
Wolf and man: Evolution in Parallel
Examines wolf behavior in comparison with that of early man.
Towards a New Theory of the Origin of the Family [and Comments and Reply]
The emergence of the monogamous family in human societies is not satisfactorily explained by traditional theories of its "natural" character or economic origins. This paper proposes a new theory based on sociobiological studies of altruism, a behaviour well-known in man and nonhuman primates. The starting point is the evolution of altruism, a behaviour which increases the chance of survival of the recipient at some cost to the performer. Altruism…
Darwin and Sociobiology: A Reply to Turke
Shared Experience and Magical Death: Chipewyan Explanations of a Prophet's Decline
Subsequent to Ridington's (1968) benchmark identification ofthe medicine fight as political instrument among the Beaver Indians there has been substantive increase in understanding the symbolic ordering supernatural causality among the related Chipewyan. Smith (1973, 1982, 1985) has examined the role inkoze as sorcery in its relation to subsistence activities and traditional leadership at Fort Resolution in the Northwest Territories. This paper e…
Giant Fish, Giant Otters, and Dinosaurs: "Apparently irrational beliefs" in a Chipewyan community
Dan Sperber's recent formulations of Rationalism advocate a form of cognitive reductionism in the interpretation of "apparently irrational beliefs" that is contingent upon a linear model of brain functioning analogous to the operations of a computer. This paper considers several nonexistent beings among the Chipewyan, arguing that such reductionism is invalid. As shared forms, their meaning is consistently indeterminate and temporally nonlinear, …
The Transformation of Bigfoot: Maleness, Power and Belief Among the Chipewyan
The Transformation of Bigfoot: Maleness, Power and Belief among the Chipewyan
The Dakota of the Canadian Northwest: Lessons for Survival. Peter Douglas Elias
Reindeer Moon
Memory, Meaning, and Imaginary Time: The Construction of Knowledge in White and Chipewyan Cultures
This article examines, through an analysis of the use of persons as sym- bols, the construction of ethnohistorical knowledge within white Canadian and Chipewyan Indian cultures in contact. An analysis of a brief scuffle between a Chipewyan and a white teacher and its consequences leads to a consideration of the scientific metaphors used in the construction of academic ethnohistorical knowledge. It is argued that consideration of a nondeterministi…
Trail to Heaven: Knowledge and Narrative in a Northern Native Community
Wolverine Myths and Visions: Dene Traditions from Northern Alberta
The people who call themselves Den Dhaa, a group of the Athapaskan-speaking natives of northwestern Canada known as the Slave or Slavey Indians, now number about one thousand and occupy three reserves in northwestern Alberta. Because their settlements were until recently widely dispersed and isolated, they have maintained their language and traditions more successfully than most other Indian groups. This collection of their stories, recorded in t…
Little Bit Know Something: Stories in a Language of Anthropology. Robin RIDINGTON
Native Liberty, Crown Sovereignty: The Existing Aboriginal Right of Self‐Government in Canada. BRUCE CLARK
A History of Dogs in the Early Americas
History of Dogs in the Early Americas. Marion Schwartz. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 233 pp
The Power of Weakness
This chapter examines a mechanism through which individuals categorized as inferior are able to exercise control and power over individuals categorized as superior in power or knowledge. This mechanism is broadly based in Chipewyan culture, independent of gender relations, but particular attention is paid to a situation of apparent male domination. Traditional Chipewyan diet consisted almost entirely of animal tissue; the use of plants for food w…
Sociology (13 works) · History (12 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (9 works) · History (8 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Citation (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Genealogy (4 works)