Adrian Tanner

Education:

BA, British Columbia, 1964
MA, British Columbia, 1966
PhD, Toronto, 1976

Position:

Honorary Research Professor

Contact:

Email: atanner@mun.ca
Phone: (709) 864-8868
Office: QC4003

Research Interests:

Symbolic and social anthropology, North American aboriginal peoples; religion, ritual and symbolism, colonialism, aboriginal rights, non-Western land tenure and political development, subsistence economics and indigenous knowledge; Canada, Oceania.

Selected Publications:

Books:

(with John C. Kennedy, Gordon Inglis and Susan McCorquodale) �Aboriginal Peoples and Governance in Newfoundland and Labrador�. In: Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, For Seven Generations: An Information Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Ottawa, Libraxus Inc, 1997[1995]. [CD-ROM]

Bringing Home Animals. Religious Ideology and Mode of Production of the Mistassini Cree Hunters London, Hurst Publishers; St. John�s, Institute of Social and Economic Research; New York, St. Martin�s Press, 1979.

Trappers, Hunters and Fishermen; Wildlife Utilization in the Yukon. Ottawa, Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Northern Co-ordination and Research Centre, 1966.

Articles:

�The Representation Of Local Indigenous Knowledge.� In: Karen Hardy (ed.) Archaeological Invisibility and Forgotten Knowledge. Conference Proceedings, 5 - 8 Sept 2007, University of Lodz, Poland. Oxford, Archaeopress, BAR International Series 2183, 2010.
Brent Kuefler, Adrian Tanner, and David C. Natcher �Capacity-Building Moose Cree Style: Moose Cree Strategies for Becoming a Goose Hunter� In Planning Co-existence: Aboriginal Issues in Forest and Land Use Planning. Marc G. Stevenson and David C. Natcher (editors) Edmonton: Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press, 2010.

with Berkes, Fikret, Iain Davidson-Hunt, Nathan Deutsch, Catie Burlando, Andrew Miller, Charlie Peters, Paddy Peters, Richard Preston, Jim Robson, Matthew Strang, Lillian Trapper, Ronald Trosper, and John Turner. �Institutions for Algonquian Land Use: Change, Continuity, and Implications for Forest Management�. In Changing the Culture of Forestry in Canada: Engaging Canada�s Aboriginal Peoples in Sustainable Forest Management. M.G. Stevenson and D. Natcher, eds. Pp. 35-52. Edmonton: Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press, 2009.
�From Fur to Fir: In Consideration of a Cree Family Territory System of Environmental Stewardship�. In Changing the Culture of Forestry in Canada: Engaging Canada�s Aboriginal Peoples in Sustainable Forest Management. M.G. Stevenson and D. Natcher, eds. Pp. 53-62. Edmonton: Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press, 2009.

'Aboriginal Social Suffering and the Quebec Cree Healing Movement' in Kirmayer, L.J., & Valaskakis, G. (eds.) Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Canadian Aboriginal Peoples, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008.

�The Nature of Quebec Cree Animist Practices and Beliefs�. In and La nature des esprits dans les cosmologies autochtones / Nature of Spirits in Aboriginal Cosmologies. Québec, Les Presses de la Université Laval, 2007.
�On Understanding Too Quickly. Colonial and Post-Colonial Misrepresentation of Indigenous Fijian Land Tenure.� Human Organization, 2007,66(1).

�Innu Indians�; �Mi�kmaq Indians�; �Mohegan Indians�. The World Book Encyclopedia, pages 276, 540, 688. Chicago, World Book Publishing, 2005.

�The Cosmology of Nature: Cultural Divergence and the Metaphysics of Community Healing� in John Clammer, Eric Schwimmer and Sylvie Poirier (eds.) Figured Worlds. Ontological Obstacles to Intercultural Relations. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2004.

�The Double Bind of Aboriginal Self Government� in Scott, Colin (ed.) Aboriginal Autonomy And Development In Northern Quebec and Labrador. Vancouver, UBC Press, Chapter 21, pp. 396-414, 2001.

(Third author with Laurence Kirmayer, Lucy Boothroyd, Naomi Adelson and Elizabeth Robinson) �Psychological Distress Among the Cree of James Bay� Transcultural Psychiatry, 37(1):35-56, 2000.
�The Innu of Labrador� In Freeman, Milton (ed.) Endangered Peoples of the Arctic. Struggles to Survive and Thrive. Westport, Greenwood, 2000. Pp 75-92.
�The Impact in Newfoundland and Labrador� in Owen Lippert (ed.) Beyond the Nass Valley. National Implications of the Supreme Court�s Delgamuukw Decision. Vancouver, The Fraser Institute, 2000. Pp. 377-386.

�Culture, Social Change and Cree Opposition to the James Bay Hydro-Electric Development' in Hornig, James (ed.) Social and Environmental Impacts of the James Bay Hydroelectric Project. Montreal, McGill-Queen�s University Press, 1999.

�The Aboriginal Peoples of Newfoundland and Labrador and Confederation� Newfoundland Studies, 14(2):238-52, 1998.
�Research on Mental Health Issues in Aboriginal Communities: How Can it be Useful?� in Oblin, Caroline, Laurence Kirmayer, Kathryn Gill and Elizabeth Robinson (eds.) Widening the Circle: Collaborative Research for Mental Health Promotion in Native Communities, Proceedings of a conference organized by the Culture and Mental Health Research Unit. Montreal, McGill University, 1998.

�Loin des yeux, loin du coeur. Terre-Neuve et l�administration des Innus du Labrador� Recherches Amerindiennes au Quebec 27(1):19-31, 1997.

�Colo Navosa; Local History and the Social Construction of Region in interior Vitilevu, Fiji.� Oceania 66(3):230-251, 1996.
�Algonquian Land Tenure and State Structures in the North� in Corrigan, S. W. and Joe Sawchuck (eds.) The Recognition of Aboriginal Rights. Brandon, Bearpaw Publishing, 1996. [Reprint of the 1983 journal article with the same title.]

�History and Culture in the Generation of Ethnic Nationalism� Michael Levin (ed.) Aboriginality and Ethnicity. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1993.

(with Sakej Henderson) �Aboriginal Land Claims in the Atlantic Provinces� in Ken Coates (ed.) Aboriginal Land Claims in Canada. Toronto, Copp Clark Pittman, 1992.
(with Paul Charest) �Présentation. La reconquête du pouvoir par les autochtones� Anthropologie et Sociétés 16(3):5-16, 1992.
�Occupation du territoire: la définition du mot occupation, en tenant compte du pouvoire spirituel d�appropriation.� in Hydro-Québec, Vice-présidence Environnement, Project d�aménagement des rivières Nottaway, Broadback et Rupert, La Variabilité de la notion de territoire. Actes d�un symposium sur la notion du territore, Rapport final préliminaire Anexe 1, 1992.
�Le Pouvoir et les peuples du quart monde� Anthropologie et Sociétés 16(3):17-36, 1992.

�Northern Political Solidarities: Groupings, Representations, Interests and Ideologies.� in O. Bausk (ed.) Ways of Political Development of Indigenous Peoples of the North. Novosibirsk, Russia: Institute of Philosophy and Law, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1991.
'Spatial Organization in Social Formation and Symbolic Action: Fijian and Canadian Examples.� in Gron, O, E. Engelstad and I. Lindblom (eds.) Social Space. Human Spatial Behaviour in Dwellings and Settlements. Odense, Denmark; Odense University Press, 1991.

�Northern Indigenous Cultures in the Face of Development� in Saunders, J. Owen, The Legal Challenge of Sustainable Development. Calgary, Canadian Institute of Resources Law, 1990.

�The Significance of Hunting Territories Today.� In Cox, B. (ed.) Native People, Native Lands. Ottawa, Carleton University Press, 1987. [This is a substantial revision of the 1973 paper with the same title (see below).]

'The New Hunting Territory Debate: An Introduction to some Unresolved Issues.� in �Who Owns the Beaver? Northern Algonquian Land Tenure Reconsidered�, Anthropologica n.s. 28(1-2):19-36, 1986.

�M�ǲԳٲ��Բ��-��첹�辱.� The Canadian Encyclopaedia. Edmonton, Hurtig, 1985. [There is also a revised version of this article published by McLellan and Stewart in the second edition].

�Notes on the Ceremonial Hide of the Quebec-Labrador Innuts.� In Cowan, W. (ed.) Papers of the Fifteenth Algonquian Conference. Ottawa, Carleton University, 1984.

�The End of Fur Trade History.� Queen�s Quarterly 90(1):176-91, 1983.

�Introduction. Canadian Indians and the Politics of Dependency.� In Tanner, A. (ed.) The Politics of Indianness. Case Studies in Native Ethnopolitics in Canada. St. John�s, Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1983. pp. 1-36.
�Algonquian Land Tenure and State Structures in the North.� The Canadian Journal of Native Studies 3(2):311-320, 1983.

�La Politique du Quartrieme Monde et les Autochtones de Canada.� Anthropologies et Societes 4(3):45-58, 1980.

�Game Shortage and the Inland Fur Trade in Northern Quebec, 1915 to 1940.� In Cowan, W. (ed.) Papers of the Ninth Algonquian Conference. Ottawa, Carleton, 1978.
�Divinations and Decisions: Multiple Explanations for Algonquian Scapulamancy�. Yearbook of Symbolic Anthropology 1978. Montreal, McGill-Queen�s, 1978. pp. 89-101.

�The Hidden Feast. Eating and Ideology among the Mistassini Cree. In Cowan, W. (ed.) Papers of the Sixth Algonquian Conference. Ottawa, National Museums of Canada, Mercury Series, 1975. pp. 291-313.

�The Significance of Hunting Territories Today.� In Cox, B. (ed.) Cultural Ecology: Readings on the Canadian Indians and Eskimos. Toronto, McLellan and Stewart, 1973. pp. 101-114.

�Existent-ils des Territoires de Chasse?� Recherches Amerindiennes au Quebec 1 (4-5): 69-83, 1971.

�Occupation and Life Style in Two Minority Communities.� In Chance, N.A. (ed.) Conflict in Culture: Problems of Developmental Change among the Cree. Ottawa, Canadian Research Centre, 1968.

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