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This paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of three anthropological approaches (interpretive, experiential and explanatory) to requests for intercession in religions and healing rituals. First, an exploration of how Native North Americans have assimilated Roman Catholicism shows how in that process they have constituted Kateri Tekakwitha as the one who heals her devotees. Second, a discussion of the work of those who advocate an experiential approach to the study of rituals illustrates how they come to understand healing powers as they are initiated in religious healing traditions. Finally, the article examines the argument that in response to the cosmic indifference to their existential condition, humans create religious traditions and healing rituals to better confront uncertainty, suffering and death. Throughout the article these three approaches are discussed in the light of the concepts of ‘dispositif' (Foucault and Deleusze) and cognitive dissonance (Fetsinger).
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The present article explores the linguistic ideologies surrounding the place of French and Canada's linguistic duality in Manitoba at the beginning of the 1960s. It is based on data drawn from a corpus of journalistic texts originating in the weekly publication La Liberté et le Patriote and from archival sources at two Franco-Manitoban institutions, the Association d'éducation des Canadiens-Français du Manitoba and the Collège de Saint-Boniface. The article examines several of the difficulties facing the Francophone community of the period and the resulting concerns experienced by leaders within the community. Discussed as well is the role played by the Québécois linguist Gaston Dulong who was invited in the spring of 1963 to report to community leaders concerning the state of the language and of French culture in the province. Of particular importance will be an analysis of the expert testimony that emerged from Dulong's visit in Manitoba and which functioned as a catalyst in the circulation and the development of linguistic ideologies in Francophone Manitoba at the beginning of the 1960s.
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AbstractThis paper reconsiders the century-old question of Inuit presence south of Hamilton Inlet and the contention that it was a short-term presence for the purpose of trading with Europeans. A summary of archival sources largely unavailable in English in conjunction with known and previously unreported archaeological evidence are the basis for a reexamination of the nature and extent of Inuit presence in the southern region. A discussion of the Inuit hunting and gathering way of life alongside the archival and archaeological evidence suggests that there is reasonable evidence of winter and summer presence, of family groups rather than trade parties, of extended habitation rather than short-term trade forays, and of a way of life that incorporated European goods but remained based on traditional seasonal foraging patterns. This update, whilst incorporating previously unpublished archaeological data for the region between Blanc Sablon and Sandwich Bay, supports the original contention presented in Martijn and Clermont, eds (1980) that Inuit did inhabit the southern region prior to the late eighteenth century.