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Skin for Skin: Death and Life for Inuit and Innu
- Author(s): Gerald M. Sider
- Published: 2014
- Pages: 304
- Illustrations: 18 illustrations
- Series: Narrating Native Histories
- Series Editor(s): K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Florencia E. Mallon, Alcida Rita Ramos, Joanne Rappaport
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"In this provocative and insightful book, Gerald M. Sider addresses the complex issue of epidemic self-destruction among Canada's Innu and Inuit communities. Combining careful, innovative research and socially engaged ethnography, Skin for Skin is a valuable contribution to the field of indigenous anthropology. Written in an accessible narrative style, this book utilizes a holistic approach to understanding the historical violence experienced by indigenous peoples and its consequences, while also creating spaces for hope to be nourished."—L. Jane McMillan, St. Francis Xavier University
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Description
Since the 1960s, the native peoples of northeastern Canada, both Inuit and Innu, have experienced epidemics of substance abuse, domestic violence, and youth suicide. Seeking to understand these transformations in the capacities of native communities to resist cultural, economic, and political domination, Gerald M. Sider offers an ethnographic analysis of aboriginal Canadians' changing experiences of historical violence. He relates acts of communal self-destruction to colonial and postcolonial policies and practices, as well as the end of the fur and sealskin trades. Autonomy and dignity within native communities have eroded as individuals have been deprived of their livelihoods and treated by the state and corporations as if they were disposable. Yet native peoples' possession of valuable resources provides them with some income and power to negotiate with state and business interests. Sider's assessment of the health of native communities in the Canadian province of Labrador is filled with potentially useful findings for native peoples there and elsewhere. While harrowing, his account also suggests hope, which he finds in the expressiveness and power of native peoples to struggle for a better tomorrow within and against domination.
About The Author(s)
Gerald M. Sider is Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and at The College of Staten Island, City University of New York. He is the author of books including Between History and Tomorrow: Making and Breaking Everyday Life in Rural Newfoundland and Living Indian Histories: Lumbee and Tuscarora People in North Carolina, both in second editions.
