HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dodge Dakota, Potlatch, Molly Brant
25 Oct 2016
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The collective logic of life among first nations: from katarokwi to kingston: the historical present. A. pre-modern peoples & post modern anxieties : aboriginal majorites & the peril of gernalization, a kin-ordered social formation. What is a kin-ordered social formation: economy. Kingston+ queens sit on the traditional lands of the anishinaabo + 5, policitics: non state societies, power in persuasion, concensus, egalitarism, exceptions to political egalitariansism d. war, social relations, meet kaixuma hupika, the kutenai : berdache , two spirits, 3 goblins, , aboriginal spirituality, status of women. Historiography-relation between writing in history to that out in the world. First nations capable key players in north america. The wsay they lived was much diff. than our own (social formation) 3 diff. socities, 1 social forum at least 3 social formations prior to. Gerneally more equal status and power for women. Non hierachal, leaders with strictly limited authority. Needs determined on collective, not individual basis.
