Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships - Brightman, Robert

Tight, unmarked; damp handling to several pages in first chapter; small stain to upper edge of ffep and title page; light wear to corners; two creases to spine; otherwise light general wear; Grateful Prey uncovers the interaction between magico-religious ideology and hunting strategies among the Rock Crees of Northern Manitoba. For many hunters in this foraging society, says Robert Brightman, the technical conduct of hunting and trapping is embedded in a complex social and moral relationship with intelligent, spiritually powerful animal quarry. In this relationship, which Brightman explores with sensitivity, the decisions of animals can facilitate or obstruct hunters' access to them. Animals become, in consequence, the object of elaborate ritual treatment intended to maintain a continuous cycle of gift exchanges between hunters and prey. 
Good
Soft cover
University of Regina Press
2002
Regina, SK