Together We Survive
Ethnographic Intuitions, Friendships, and Conversations
Description
Honouring anthropologist Richard J. Preston and his outstanding career with the Crees in northern Quebec, Together We Survive presents new research by Preston's colleagues, former students, and family members who - like him - have established long-term, respectful research partnerships and friendships with Aboriginal communities. Demonstrating the influential nature of Preston's collaborative approach on anthropologists in Canada and beyond, the essays in Together We Survive explore development and urbanization, material culture, and conflict. Scholars who conducted research in the 1960s with Crees farther to the south broaden the scope of Preston's Cree Narrative (2002). A Cree colleague and friend expands on his study of traditional Cree songs. Other essays widen the geographical, historical, and cultural foci of the book beyond the Quebec Crees, examining the significance of a beaded hood at Red River in 1844, scrutinizing symbols of Anishinaabe identity, and describing the struggle for indigenous human rights at the United Nations. Building on Preston's pioneering work in cultural anthropology, Together We Survive recounts the ways in which the eastern James Bay Cree and other aboriginal peoples, faced with massive incursions on their lands and lives, have collaborated and formed respectful partnerships as they seek to survive and thrive in peace. Contributors include Regna Darnell (Western), Harvey A. Feit (McMaster), John S. Long (Nipissing), Stan L. Louttit, Richard T. McCutcheon (Algoma), the late Cath Oberholtzer (Trent), Laura Peers (Oxford), Jennifer Preston, Susan Preston, Adrian Tanner (Memorial) and Cory Willmott (Southern Illinois).
Reviews
"One's appreciation of Dick Preston is considerably deepened on reading his interview with Richard T. McCutcheon. Preston is sensitive, insightful and articulate in his consideration of the significance of Quakerism in his life and work. The fact that Preston served as a US marine during the Korean War adds a certain acuity to his appreciation of Quaker testimonies. The conversation is wide-ranging and embraces issues relating to peace (and violence), humanism, laughter, community, family, friendship, speaking in meeting, activism and the importance of stories and mythologies." Quaker Studies
"One's appreciation of Dick Preston is considerably deepened on reading his interview with Richard T. McCutcheon. Preston is sensitive, insightful and articulate in his consideration of the significance of Quakerism in his life and work. The fact that Pre