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BC Studies #95 (Autumn 1992)
Anthropology and History in the Courts

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Articles

INTRODUCTION (pg: 3-6) by Bruce G. Miller

Time of Trial: The Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en in Court (pg: 7-11) by Dora Wilson-Kenni
(Wet'suwet'en) (oral tradition) (Gitskan) (Delgamuukw v. BC) (aboriginal people)

Fieldwork in Courtroom 53: A Witness to Delgamuukw v. B.C. (pg: 12-24) by Robin Ridington
(land claims) (Gitskan) (Delgamuukw v. BC) (anthropology) (aboriginal people) (aboriginal fisheries)

Invention of Anthropology in British Columbia's Supreme Court: Oral Tradition as Evidence in Delgamuukw v. B.C. (pg: 25-42) by Julie Cruikshank
(McEachern, Allan) (land claims) (Gitskan) (geography) (Delgamuukw v. BC) (anthropology)

Judging History: Reflections on Reasons for Judgment in Delgamuukw v. B.C. (pg: 43-54) by Robin Fisher
(McEachern, Allan) (land claims) (Gitskan) (environment) (Delgamuukw v. BC) (anthropology)

Common Sense and Plain Language (pg: 55-65) by Bruce G. Miller
(McEachern, Allan) (land claims) (Gitskan) (environment) (Delgamuukw v. BC) (aboriginal people)

Adding Insult to Injury: Her Majesty's Loyal Anthropologist (pg: 66-92) by Dara Culhane
(McEachern, Allan) (land claims) (Gitskan) (geography) (Delgamuukw v. BC) (anthropology)

Contributors

Bruce G. Miller teaches anthropology at the University of British Columbia. 

Dora Wilson-Kenni, Yagalahl, of the House of Spookw, served as a member of Gitksan-Wet'suwet'en litigation team in Delgamuukw v. B.C. and monitored the trial in Vancouver. 

Robin Ridington, author of Trail to Heaven (1988) and Little Bit Know Something (1990), is an anthropologist at the University of British Columbia. 

Julie Cruikshank, anthropologist at the University of British Columbia, has recently won the Canadian Historical Association's Macdonald Prize for her Life Lived Like a Story ( 1990). 

Robin Fisher, an historian at Simon Fraser University, published Duff Pattullo of British Columbia in 1991. 

Dara Culhane is affiliated with the Department of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University and is the author of An Error in Judgement: The Politics of Medical Care in an Indian/White Community. 

Bibliography of British Columbia

Prepared by Melva J. Dwyer, Librarian Emerita, University of British Columbia

PDF - Bibliography, BC Studies 95, Autumn 1992