Cultural Persistence

Download or read book Cultural Persistence written by Scott Rushforth and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bearlake Athapaskan-speaking Indians of Canada's Northwest Territories have valued industriousness, generosity, individual autonomy, and emotional restraint for many generations. They also highly esteem "control" in human thought and behavior. The latter value integrates the others in a coherent framework of moral responsibility that persists as a central feature of Bearlake culture. Rushforth here provides an ethnographic description and analysis of these beliefs and values, which considers their relationship to examples of Bearlake social behavior.