At the bridge : James Teit and an anthropology of belonging /

Every once in a while, an important historical figure makes an appearance, makes a difference and then disappears from the public record. James Teit (1864-1922) was such a figure. A prolific ethnographer and tireless Indian rights activist, Teit spent four decades helping British Columbia's Ind...

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Main Author: Wickwire, Wendy C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, [2019]
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505 0 |a 1. Missing in history -- 2. Boats, trains, horses -- 3. Dear auld rock -- 4. Encounter -- 5. Paper mountain -- 6. Dwelling -- 7. Capital of resistance -- 8. The Indians' agent -- 9. NOttawa -- 10. Farewell Coyote, Hello Jack. 
520 |a Every once in a while, an important historical figure makes an appearance, makes a difference and then disappears from the public record. James Teit (1864-1922) was such a figure. A prolific ethnographer and tireless Indian rights activist, Teit spent four decades helping British Columbia's Indigenous peoples in their challenge of the settler-colonial assault on their lives and territories. Yet his story is little known. At the Bridge chronicles Teit's fascinating story. From his base at Spences Bridge, British Columbia, Teit practiced a participant- and place-based anthropology, an anthropology of belonging, that covered much of British Columbia and northern Washington, Idaho and Montana. Whereas his contemporaries, including famed anthropologist Franz Boas, studied Indigenous peoples as the last survivors of "dying cultures" in need of preservation in metropolitan museums, Teit worked with them as members of living cultures actively asserting jurisdiction over their lives and lands. Whether recording stories and songs, mapping place-names or participating in the chiefs' fight for fair treatment, he made their objectives his own. With his allies, he produced copious, meticulous records. An army of anthropologists could not have achieved a fraction of what Teit achieved in his short life. Wendy Wickwire's beautifully crafted narrative accords Teit the status he deserves. At the Bridge serves as a long-overdue corrective, consolidating Teit's place as a leading and innovative anthropologist in his own right. 
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