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Marburg, Germany - Course Descriptions - Life on Land and Sea: Cultural and Political Ecology

Course Information

Subject: Ethnology (ETHN)
Number: 300 level
Language of Instruction: English

Contact Hours and Credits

Semester Session: 48 contact hours, 3 semester credits

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Summary

Using Canadian Indigenous peoples, the course will discuss the ways in which these people adapted technically, socially and conceptually to the environments in which they lived.

Full Description

Using Canadian Indigenous peoples, particularly, Inuit, Peoples of the Eastern Sub-Arctic (Cree, Ojibwa), Tribes of the Great Plains (Blackfoot, Sioux-Assiniboine), the course will discuss the ways in which these people adapted technically, socially and conceptually to the environments in which they lived. A second aspect of the course will examine the consequences of the colonial encounter and the confrontation of Indigenous adaptation with that of the French and British colonial settlers.