PRO-D EVENT FEATURES RENOWNED ANTHROPOLOGIST

Date:         Tuesday May 4, 2010
Time:         7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location:  North Peace Cultural Center
Event:          Peace Professionals Pro-D event, public welcome
Cost:          $5 cost recovery fee charged at the door
Register:  email lori@scitechnorth.bc.ca or call Sci-Tech North 250 785 9600

Ethnographic studies are holistic, founded on the idea that humans are best understood in context, including where they live, how they make a living, what language(s) they speak, their history, their customs, their beliefs, and so on.
 
Robin Ridington has worked with Dane-zaa people of northeastern BC since 1964 when he began his fieldwork with four communities:  the Blueberry, Doig, Halfway and Prophet River First Nations. He is a Professor Emeritus in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia and taught there from 1967 to 1995.  He has a BA from Swarthmore College and a PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University.  

Robin is an audio and video documentarian and was ethnographic director of the videos produced by the Doig River First Nation.  The recordings and photographs that Robin made in the 1960s form a core part of the Dane-zaa archive.  He was fortunate to know the last Dreamer, Charlie Yahey, and many other Dane-zaa who have now gone on the trail to heaven. Robin is the author of Little Bit Know Something, and Trail to Heaven, as well as many articles on Dane-zaa culture and philosophy.  He and Jillian Ridington are currently completing a history of the Dane-zaa First Nations, Where Happiness Dwells.