Kinship

In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated. Anthropologist Robin Fox states that "the study of kinship is the study of what man does with these basic facts of life – mating, gestation, parenthood, socialization, siblingship etc." Human society is unique, he argues, in that we are "working with the same raw material as exists in the animal world, but [we] can conceptualize and categorize it to serve social ends." These social ends include …

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UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 7 April 2024 English

“Inspiring, healing, and future-facing, this long overdue book gives us valuable new insights into the histories and identities of Métis people.”

connections gen- erously support the reclamation of kinship relations through knowledge sharing. Learning to one another and holds us accountable to our kinship relations. These are not spelling mistakes, and environments, understand their identity through language, kinship, land, racism, and survival. However, as a Michif distinct linguistic, political, socio-economic, and kinship convergences that herald specific lifeways. Wisdoms during the first gathering, sharing our family kinship lines, meeting “new” relatives, I appraised that


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 4 April 2024 English

That Audible Slippage invokes a poetics of active listening and environmental sound to investigate the ways in which we both hear and fail to hear insufficiency, loss, incompleteness, and other …

residency in Edmonton with such lovely creative kinship. Warm thanks to Janice Williamson for a decades-long


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 2 April 2024 English

Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities examines the relationship between the Wet’suwet’en and hydrocarbon pipeline development, showing how colonial governments and corporations seek to control Indigenous claims and how the Wet'suwet'en resist. …

to inte- grate into the networks of Indigenous kinship that oriented relations at the edge of empire garner status and authority within Indigenous kinship systems, traders intermarried with Indigenous established language and rituals to renew the kinship between the British sovereign and Indigenous peoples of complex webs of kinship.42 In Wet’suwet’en society, the most important kinship networks were those respectively. The yikh was the intimate matrilineal kinship group that held distinct hunting territories where


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 2 April 2024 English

All Sky, Mirror Ocean is for everyone looking to understand the complex issues around mental illness and healing. Combining autobiography, research-creation, poetry, and creative philosophy, Brad Necyk uses art and …

years; it is a space for communal immunitary kinship, where our bodies heal the gnawing of microscopic too, and I, an intergenerational being —make kinship with everyone before, and with all my children’s drove through the darkness, I felt incredible kinship with these new friends in the land beyond the


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 30 March 2024 English

Emily McGiffin’s poems examine imperial violence and colonialism in South Africa and Canada. Multifaceted and multi-voiced, Emily McGiffin’s poems explore the ongoing violence, destruction, and loss wrought by colonialism and …

the east frontier to sever bonds of blood and kinship forged over one hundred generations battened to


EAC: Centre d'action écologique · 14 March 2024 English

A patchwork of Karen McKendry, an ecologist and member of the Sandy Lack- municipally-, provincially-, and privately-owned land, the Sandy Sackville River Regional Park Coalition, has been working with the …

experience opened his eyes to what understanding of a kinship with the wild, how it heals, sustains treasures


EAC: Centre d'action écologique · 13 March 2024 English

it has reverberations for the areas around it as well.” As organizing efforts to protect the Sandy Lake-Sackville River area intensify, the integration of art and environmental activism is emerging …

experience opened his eyes to what understanding of a kinship with the wild, how it heals, sustains treasures


Saskatchewan Environmental Society · 11 March 2024 English

Eligibility Projects - are Indigenous-owned and led - advance Indigenous climate leadership - support the self-determined climate, social, and economic priorities of Indigenous peoples Other project criteria: - incorporate or …

Indigenous youth-led clean energy projects grounded in kinship, mentorship, and a shared energy future. Up to


ACT: AIDS Committee of Toronto · 21 February 2024 English

In the event of any dispute between bidders, a missed bid, or in the event of doubt as the validity of any bid, the auctioneer will have, at their discretion, …

investigates ecological themes, nation building, and kinship through the use of photography, archival material


Ivey Energy Policy and Management Centre · 20 February 2024 English

Government Companies 3 The Role of FinancingConsumers Implications to better understand how finance can support a systems transformation for regenerative agriculture – on the farm and beyond. [...] Paul Hamilton …

Indigenous worldviews hold that humans are in “kinship with the world” (Deloria 1999). • Through an Indigenous


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