KP341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Habitants, Canadian Identity, Beaver Club
12 Jan 2018
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01/10/18 theme 1: geography and climate 1. What is the impact of the climate/geography on early contests: first nations, european settlers. Control of leisure: moral and political reasons, relation to the evolution of the canadian type. Leisure and past times: taverns, bees, social clubs, garrison, class differences. Early games and contests control over leisure. Sport similarly diverse: leisure, politics, survival how to live off land in seasonal rhythm, religion, typically nomadic people. Reflect forms of subsistence necessary in different geographies: sport reflected way the tribes had to live off the land, e. g. great lakes tribes played different sports compared to those in b. c. mountain range. Athapaskan / dene: sub-arctic peoples, semi-nomadic lifestyle, hunting and fishing, necessary to be physical strong tough. Celebrate and enhance strength, endurance and resistance to pain: wrestling and running races. Educate and socialize youth: elements of the land symbolize attributes needed to survive. Predicated on certain social roles: men"s vs. women"s sports.
