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Mythology, Religion & Culture: Featured Titles in our Library
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Restoring the Balance: First Nations women, community, and culture by Gail Guthrie Valaskakis (Editor); Madeleine Dion Stout (Editor); Eric Guimond (Editor)Publication Date: 2009-03-01
Restoring the Balance brings to light the work First Nations women have performed, and continue to perform, in cultural continuity and community development. It illustrates the challenges and successes they have had in the areas of law, politics, education, community healing, language, and art, while suggesting significant options for sustained improvement of individual, family, and community well-being. Written by fifteen Aboriginal scholars, activists, and community leaders, Restoring the Balance combines life histories and biographical accounts with historical and critical analyses grounded in traditional thought and approaches. It is a powerful and important book.
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First Nations, Identity, and Reserve Life: the Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia by Simone PoliandriPublication Date: 2011-11-01
Simone Poliandri begins First Nations, Identity, and Reserve Life with a search for the criteria used by the Mi'kmaq to construct their identities, which are traced within the context of their different perceptions of community, tradition, spirituality, relationship with the Catholic Church, and the recent reevaluation of the iconic figure of late activist Annie Mae Aquash. Building on the notions of self-identification and ascribed identity as the primary components of identity, Poliandri argues that placing others at specific locations within the social landscape of their communities allows the Mi'kmaq to define and reinforce their own spaces by way of association, contrast, or both.
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