TRANSFORMATION OF BIGFOOT: Maleness, Power and Belief Among the Chipewayan (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry),

by Henry S. Sharp

The major theoretical issues in this work (1) the nature of power in Chipewyan society; (2) the relationship between specific symbolic forms, inkoze and the "bushman," as a means of gender regulation; and (3) the Western concepts of "belief" and "rationality" as confounding variables in the analysis of Chipewyan thought and action.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published March 17, 1988