Principal Investigator:Walsh, David Licensed Year(s):
2013
Summary:
To examine Tlicho relationships with the environment, specifically with food-animals, through the lens of foodways - the beliefs, practices, rituals, and culture around food. The hypothesis is that an ethnographic study of foodways will reveal a dynamic social relationship with animals and other beings in the environment. This research will involve the Rae-Edzo Friendship Center and local harveste...
Principal Investigator:Gordon, Dylan Licensed Year(s):
2012
Summary:
This research has two goals: 1) to determine how harvesters of wild mushrooms operating in the Northwest Territories find, harvest, process and sell them; and, 2) to determine how this process impacts the social, environmental and economic interests of local communities and the land.
The method is called ethnographic participant observation. This means to observe the actions of the study partic...