The Queen's People: A Study of Hegemony, Coercion, and Accommodation among the Okanagan of Canada

by Peter Carstens

Overview

An analysis of the realities of everyday life for Okanagan Indians on a reserve near Vernon. Carstens applies the peasant model to the study of reserve systems and finds significant correlations. Questions of class, status, power, and institutionalized inequality also come into play.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802068279
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	06/01/1991
Series:	Heritage
Pages:	382
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Peter Carstens is Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto.

Editorial Reviews

The result of a long personal association and extensive field and archival research, this study of a small community in Canada is concerned with three closely related themes: the historical processes whereby the Okanagan Indians of British Columbia came to live on reserves; social life in a reserve community at the present time with reference also to relations with the outside world; and the complex effects these historical processes and confinement to a reserve have had on the lives of the Okanagan people in general. The paper edition is available (6827-8), $22.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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