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Athabasca University To order AU Press books, contact our distributors: UBC Press PRESS All AU Press publications are available open AU c/o UTP Distribution access on our website. 5201 Dufferin Street Athabasca University In Canada Toronto, ON M3H 5T8 AU PRESS e-books are available for purchase t: 1.800.565.9523 / 416.667.7791 through the following vendors: f: 1.800.221.9985 / 416.667.7832 Individuals: Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Sony, eBooks e: [email protected] Libraries: Canadian Electronic Library, ebrary, order online at www.aupress.ca Netlibrary, MyiLibrary, EBL, OverDrive University of Washington Press c/o Hopkins Fulfillment Service PO Box 50370 In the US Baltimore MD 21211-4370 US t: 1.800.537.5487 / 410.516.6956 e: [email protected] Eurospan Group c/o Turpin Distribution Athabasca University In the UK, Pegasus Drive, Stratton Business Park 1200, 10011 - 109 Street Europe, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire SG18 8TQ Edmonton AB T5J 3S8 Middle East, United Kingdom t: 780.497.3412 and Africa t: 44.0(20).1767.604972 f: 780.421.3298 f: 44.0(20).1767.601640 e: [email protected] e: [email protected] WWW.AUPRESS.CA Fall 2014 orders review copies TABLE OF CONTENTS If you require either a review copy or a desk copy, please submit your canada request by email to New Titles 1–6 UTP Distribution [email protected]. 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Memoir 1, 12 Museum Studies 2 Political Science 1 AU Press e-books are available for purchase through the AU Press acknowledges the financial support of the government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund; the Canadian Federation for Religion 4 following vendors: the Humanities and Social Sciences through the Awards to Scholarly Sociology 8 Individuals: Kobo, Sony, Barnes & Noble, Blio, eBooks, Copia Publications Program; the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Sports 5 Libraries: Canadian Electronic Library, ProQuest/ebrary, MyiLibrary, Multimedia Development Fund; and the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Complete Back List 12–21 EBSCO/Netlibrary, ProQuest/EBL, OverDrive, Follett Library (LHCADL). Get the latest news from Book Awards 22 AU Press by following us on Series 23–25 Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Journals 26–27 Website Publications 27 Index 28 MEMOIR • POLITICAL SCIENCE Rocks in the Water, Rocks in the Sun A Memoir from the Heart of Haiti Vilmond Joegodson Déralciné and Paul Jackson When Joegodson Déralciné was still allows us to walk in the ditches of Cité Vilmond Joegodson Déralciné is a small child, his parents left rural Soleil, to hide from the macoutes under a furniture maker and writer who Haiti to resettle in the rapidly growing the bed, to feel the ache of an empty lives in Canaan, Haiti. zones of Port-au-Prince. As his family stomach. But, most importantly, he Paul Jackson earned his PhD in entered the city in 1986, Duvalier and provides an account of life in Haiti from history from Queen's University. his dictatorship exited. Haitians, once a perspective that is rarely heard. Free His published work includes One terrorized under Duvalier’s reign, were of sentimentality and hackneyed clichés, of the Boys (McGill-Queen's liberated and emboldened to believe that his narrative explores the spirituality of University Press, 2004). they could take control of their lives. But Vodou, Catholicism, and Protestantism, how? Joining hundreds of thousands of describes the harrowing day of the other peasants trying to adjust to urban 2010 earthquake and its aftermath, life, Joegodson and his family sought and illustrates the inner workings of work and a means of survival. But all MINUSTAH. Written with Canadian November 2014 they found was low-waged assembly plant historian Paul Jackson—Joegodson 978-1-771990-11-0 PAPER 978-1-771990-13-4 EPUB jobs of the sort to which the repressive telling his story in Creole, Jackson 978-1-771990-12-7 PDF Duvalier regime had opened Haiti’s translating, the two of them then Our Lives doors—the combination of flexible reviewing and reworking—the memoir 400 pages capital and cheap labour too attractive is a true collaboration, the struggle of 6 x 9 to multinational manufacturers to be two people from different lands and $24.95 overlooked. With the death of his mother, vastly different circumstances to arrive Joegodson was placed in his uncle’s care, at a place of mutual understanding. and so began a childhood of starvation, In the process, they have given us an endless labour, and abuse. unforgettable account of a country In honest, reflective prose, determined to survive, and on its own Joegodson—now a father himself— terms. ▪ 1 FIRST NATIONS • MUSEUM STUDIES In 1990, Gerald Conaty was hired “We Are Coming Home!” is “We Are Coming Home!” as senior curator of ethnology at the story of the highly complex Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural the Glenbow Museum, with the process of repatriation as described particular mandate of improving by those intimately involved in the Confidence the museum’s relationship with work, notably the Piikuni, Siksika, Aboriginal communities. That and Kainai elders who provided Edited by Gerald T. Conaty same year, the Glenbow had taken essential oversight and guidance. its first tentative steps toward We also hear from the Glenbow repatriation by returning sacred Museum’s president and CEO at objects to First Nations’ peoples. the time and from an archaeologist These efforts drew harsh criticism then employed at the Provincial from members of the provincial Museum of Alberta who provides government. Was it not the an insider’s view of the drafting museum’s primary legal, ethical, of FNSCORA. These accounts are and fiduciary responsibility to framed by Conaty’s reflections on ensure the physical preservation of the impact of museums on First its collections? Would the return Nations, on the history and culture of a sacred bundle to ceremonial of the Niitsitapi, or Blackfoot, use not alter and diminish its and on the path forward. With historical worth and its value to Conaty’s passing in August of the larger society? Undaunted by 2013, this book is also a tribute such criticism, Conaty oversaw to his enduring relationships the return of more than fifty with the Blackfoot, to his rich medicine bundles to Blackfoot and and exemplary career, and to his Cree communities between the commitment to innovation and years of 1990 and 2000, at which mindful museum practice. ▪ time the First Nations Sacred Ceremonial Objects Repatriation Act (FNSCORA)—still the only repatriation legislation in Canada— was passed. “Repatriation,” he wrote, “is a vital component in the creation of an equitable, diverse, and respectful society.” In 1990 the Glenbow lent a medicine pipe bundle to the Weasel Moccasin family. (L-R: Percy Old Shoes, Daniel Weasel, AN EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK: Dan Weasel Moccasin, and Gerald T. Conaty) I brought a sacred headdress to an aaawaahskataiki (ceremonial grandparent) of the women’s Maotoki society. Before leaving the museum, I had stuffed the headpiece with acid-free tissue, carefully folded the trailer around more tissue, and placed the entire piece in an acid-free archival box, padding out space with yet more tissue. When I brought the package into the elder’s home, she gasped with horror. The tissue was rapidly discarded and the headdress was rolled tightly, wrapped in a cloth, and secured with twine. It was, in fact, swaddled, much the way a newborn baby is enclosed for care and protection. Here, again, was an alternative way of understanding what these sacred objects are and how they should be cared for. Over time, I have also come to appreciate that the use of these items is not detrimental to their well- being. In fact, their participation in ceremonies keeps them alive and vibrant.— Gerald T. Conaty Contributors: Gerald T. Conaty, Allan Pard, Jerry Potts, Frank Weasel Head, Herman Yellow Old Woman, Chris McHugh, John W. Ives, and Robert R. Janes Gerald T. Conaty was the director of Indigenous studies at the Glenbow Museum. He leaves as his legacy more than thirty articles and books, including Powerful Images: Portrayals of Native America, co-authored with Sarah E. Boehme. In 2003, he was inducted into the Kainai Chieftainship and given the name Sikapiistamix (Grey Bull). November 2014 978-1-771990-17-2 PAPER 978-1-771990-19-6 EPUB 978-1-771990-18-9 PDF 280 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 • 30 b&w images $34.95 CANADIAN HISTORY • MISSIONARY HISTORY • RELIGION • FIRST NATIONS Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country Memories of a Mother and Son Elizabeth Bingham Young and E. Ryerson Young Edited and with Introductions by Jennifer S. H. Brown In May of 1868, Elizabeth Bingham Accompanying Elizabeth’s memoir, Jennifer S.
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