ROBIN RIDINGTON BIOGRAPHICAL AND
CONTACT INFORMATION
 Born November 1, 1939 Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia RR 2 S44 C-16 Galiano, BC V0N 1P0 Canada (250)382-4028 e-mail doctorzogo@gmail.com Websites: www.retreatisland.com http://sites.google.com/site/plumeofcockatoopress/
PUBLICATIONS: ROBIN RIDINGTON (September, 2009)
Books and Monographs
Ridington, Robin 1978a Swan People: A Study of the Dunne-za Prophet Dance. Canadian Ethnology Service Mercury Series 38. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada. (123 pp.) Ridington, Robin and Jillian Ridington 1978b People of the Trail: How the Northern Forest Indians Lived. (42 pp.) Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre. Ridington, Jillian and Robin Ridington 1982 People of the Longhouse: How the Iroquoian People Lived. (42 pp.) Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre. Ridington, Robin 1988 Trail to Heaven: Knowledge and Narrative in a Northern Native Community. (316pp., 29 black-and-white photographs). Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. Canadian co-publication by Douglas and McIntyre, Vancouver. 1990 Little Bit Know Something: Stories in a Language of Anthropology. (281 pp., 6 black-and-white photographs). Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. (Canadian Edition, Douglas and McIntyre, Vancouver.) 2008 The Poets Don't Write Sonnets Anymore. (100 pp) Plume of Cockatoo Press: Galiano, BC V0N 1P0 Ridington, Robin and Dennis Hastings. 1997 Blessing for a Long Time: The Sacred Pole of the Omaha Tribe. (280 pp., 22 photographs, 7 drawings). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Ridington, Robin and Jillian Ridington 2006 When You Sing It Now, Just Like New: First Nations Poetics, Voices and Representations. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. (accompanying audio files available online) http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/pages/Ridington_audio.aspx
Journal Articles Ridington, Robin 1968 The Medicine Fight: An Instrument of Political Process Among the Beaver Indians. American Anthropologist 70(6):1152-1160 1969 Kin Categories Versus Kin Groups: A Two Section System Without Sections. Ethnology 8(4):460-467. 1971a Beaver Indian Dreaming and Singing. in Pilot Not Commander: Essays in Memory of Diamond Jenness. Pat and Jim Lotz, eds. Anthropologica Special Issue 13(1-2):115-128. Reprinted in Native American Traditions. Sam D. Gill, ed. 20-27. 1983. Belmont California: Wadsworth. 1971b The Final Direction of Shamanic Revelation. Studia Missionalia 20:287-299. Ridington, Robin and Tonia Ridington 1975 The Inner Eye of Shamanism and Totemism. Teachings from the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy . Dennis and Barbara Tedlock. eds. 190-204. New York: Liveright. Ridington, Robin 1976a Wechuge and Windigo: A Comparison of Cannibal Belief among Boreal Forest Athapaskans and Algonkians. Anthropologica 18(2):107-129. 1976b The Anthropology of Experience. Reflections: A Journal of Interpretive Sociology 2:1- 19. 1976c Eye on the Wheel. Io 22:68-81. 1978a The World is as Sharp as a Knife: Vision and Image in the Work of Wilson Duff. B.C. Studies 38:3-13. 1978b Introduction To Papers on Symbolic Anthropology. Special Issue of Western Canadian Journal of Anthropology 8(2-4). Robin Ridington, ed. 1978c Metaphor and Meaning: Healing in Dunne-za Music and Dance. Western Canadian Journal of Anthropology 8(2-4):9-17. 1978d Myth of Creation, Creation of Myth. B.C. Monthly3(9):72-76. 1979a Sequence and Hierarchy in Cultural Experience. Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 4(4)2-10. 1979b Changes of Mind: Dunne-za Resistence to Empire. B.C.Studies 43:65-80. 1979c Literalism and Symbolism in Anthropological Understanding. Zatetic Scholar 5. (12 pp.) (reprinted in German translation, 1985, as Faktenglaubigkeit und Symbolismus in der Anthropologie - Das Bild des Sasquatch. Unter dem Pflaster liegt der Strand. 15:113-123.) l 979d Mirrors and Masks. Parabola 4(4):84-90. 1980 A True Story. Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly5(4):11-14. 1981 Raven and First Man. Parabola 6(1):94-96. 1982a When Poison Gas Come Down Like a Fog: A Native Community's Response to Cultural Disaster. Human Organization 41(1):36-42. 1982b Commentary on Louis Marano Windigo Psychosis: The Anatomy of an Emic-Etic Confusion. Current Anthropology 23(4):403. 1982c Technology, World View and Adaptive Strategy in a Northern Hunting Society. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 19(4):469-481. 1982d Telling Secrets: Stories of the Vision Quest. Canadian Journal of Native Studies 2:213-219. 1982e Review Article about Two Exhibitions and Books: Pipes that won't Smoke: Coal that won't Burn by Carol Sheehan and The Legacy: Continuing Traditions of Canadian Northwest Coast Indian Art by Peter McNair et al. Canadian Journal of Native Studies 2:377-387. 1983a Reflexionen uber die schamanische Vorstelling vom modernen Leben. in Sehnsucht nach dem Ursprung: zu Mircea Eliade. Hans Peter Duerr, ed. 192-206. Frankfurt: Syndikat. 1983b From Artifice to Artifact: Stages in the Industrialization of a Northern Native Community. Journal of Canadian Studies 18(3):55-66. 1983c Laurie Anderson: Shaman of the Post-Modern Era. The Vancouver Literary News May 1983:35-39. 1983d Stories of the Vision Quest Among Dunne-za Women. Atlantis 9(1):68-78. (reprinted in German translation in 1984 as, Geschichten der Visionssuche bei den Dunne-za-Frauen. Unter dem Pflaster liegt der Strand 13:55-72.) 1983e Electronic Eyes. Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 8(3):2-7. 1983f Commentary on I.C. Jarvie, The Problem of the Ethnographic Real. Current Anthropology 24(3):323. 1983g In Doig People's Ears: Portrait of a Native Community in Sound. Anthropologica 25(1):9-21 1984 Commentary on Paul Shankman, The Thick and the Thin: On the Interpretive Theoretical Program of Clifford Geertz. Current Anthropology 25(3):275-276. 1985a Koyaanisqatsi. Anthropologia Visualis 1(1)74-79. 1985b The Old Wagon Road: Talking Fieldnotes from Ethnographic Fieldwork. Canadian Journal of Native Studies 5(2):201-216. 1986 Texts That Harm: Racist Journalism in B.C. Currents: Readings in Race Relations 3(4):6-11. 1987a Omaha Survival: A Vanishing Indian Tribe That Would Not Vanish. American Indian Quarterly 11(1) 37-51. 1987b From Hunt Chief to Prophet: Beaver Indian Dreamers and Christianity. Arctic Anthropology 24(1):8-18. 1987c Models of the Universe: The Poetic Paradigm of Benjamin Lee Whorf. Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 12(1):16-24. 1988a Knowledge, Power, and the Individual in Subarctic Hunting Societies. American Anthropologist 90(1):98-110. 1988b Images of Cosmic Union: Omaha Ceremonies of Renewal. History of Religions 28(2):135-150. 1989 A Response to "Soul Walker": Reflections on the Native American Sense of Place. The Journal of Wild Culture. Spring, 1989:30-37. 1990 Cultures in Conflict: The Problem of Discourse. Canadian Literature. 123-125:273-290. 1990 Why Baby Why: Howard Broomfield's Documentation of the Dunne-za Soundscape. Canadian Journal of Native Studies 8(2)251-274. 1992 Written on the Heavens: Recent Studies in Archaeoastronomy. Reviews in Anthropology 21:171-179. 1993 A Sacred Object as Text: Reclaiming the Sacred Pole of the Omaha Tribe. American Indian Quarterly 17(1):83-99. 1996 Voice, Representation and Dialogue: The Poetics of Native American Spiritual Traditions. American Indian Quarterly 20(3-4):1-22. 1997 Visions of the Cosmos: Recent Explorations of New World Cosmology. Review Essay of Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path; Living Life's Circle: Mescalero Apache Cosmovision; and Andean Cosmologies Through Time: Persistence and Emergence. Reviews in Anthropology 26(2):147-158. 1998a "C'est comme ca qu'ils l'attrapent": Paroles celestes dans le chant et la danse des Dunne-zas. Recherches Amerindiennes au Quebec 28(3):11-17.ThatIs How They Grab It: Celestial Discourse in Dunne-za Music and Dance. Recherches Amerindiennes au Quebec. 1998b Coyote's Cannon: Sharing Stories with Thomas King. American Indian Quarterly 22(3): 343-362. 1998c The Cry of the Living Creatures: An Omaha Performance of Blessing. Anthropologica 40:183-196 2000 Happy Trails to You: Contexted Discourse and Indian Removals in Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water. Canadian Literature 167:89-107. 2001 Re-creation in Canadian First Nations Literatures: "When You Sing It Now, Just Like New" Anthropologica 43(2):221-230. Ridington, Robin and Jillian Ridington 2003 Archiving Actualities: Sharing Authority with Dane-zaa First Nations. Comma 2003.1 Paris: International Council on Archives Chapters in Books and Collections of Papers Ridington, Robin 1977 The Prophet Dance Among the Dunne-za. Prehistory of the North American Sub-Arctic: The Athapaskan Question 211-224. Calgary: The University of Calgary. 1978 Beaver Indians. Encyclopedia of Indians of the Americas. Scholarly Press. (from typescript of 5 pages). 1980a Monsters and the Anthropologist's Reality. Manlike Monsters on Trial: Early Records and Modern Evidence. M. Halpin and M. Ames, eds. 172-186. Vancouver: UBC Press. 1980b Trails of Meaning. The World is as Sharp as a Knife: An Anthology in Honour of Wilson Duff. Don Abbott, ed. 265-268. Victora: British Columbia Provincial Museum. 1980c For Wilson As A Contribution to the Conversation. The World is as Sharp as a Knife: An Anthology in Honour of Wilson Duff. Don Abbott, ed. 239-248. Victoria: British Columbia Provincial Museum. 1981 Beaver. Handbook of North American Indians 6. June Helm, ed. 350-360. 1985a Beaver Indians. The Canadian Encyclopedia. 154. Edmonton: Hurtig. 1985b Native People, Subarctic. The Canadian Encyclopedia. 2110-2111. Edmonton: Hurtig. 1985c Nothing is the Absence/Woman of Earth. Reflections: The Anthropological Muse. J. Iain Prattis, ed. 154-156. Washington: American Anthropological Association. 1986a Keynotes of a Northern Hunting People: an Interpretive Study Guide to the Video, In Doig Peoples Ears: Portrait of a Changing Native Community by Robin Ridington, Howard Broomfield, and Myrna Cobb. In Anthropology in Praxis, Philip Spaulding, ed. 44-74. Calgary: Department of Anthropology, University of Calgary. 1987a Fox and Chicadee. The American Indian and the Problem of History. Calvin Martin, ed. 128-135. New York: Oxford. 1987b Ethnicity and Cultural Survival: The Omaha Tribe. Ethnicity and Culture. Scott MacEachern and Peter H. McCartney, eds., 297-301. Calgary: Archaeology Association, University of Calgary. 1990 Receiving the Mark of Honor: An Omaha Ritual of Renewal. In Religion in Native North America. Christopher Vecsey, ed. 20-35. Moscow: University of Idaho Press. 1990 A Tree that Stands Burning: Reclaiming a Point of View as from the Center. In Conversations in Anthropology: Anthropology and Literature. Paul J. Benson, ed. Urbana: Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society 17(1&2):47-75. 1990 El Sonar Y La Busqueda de Visiones Entre Los Indios Beaver. In Anthropologia Y Experiencias del Sueno. Michel Perrin, ed. 37-47. Quito, Ecuador: Coleccion 500 Anos 21 - Ediciones Abya-Yala. 1990 The Mythic Voice. (catalog notes to Voice in the Blood, an Exhibition of Paintings by Colleen Cutschall:19-21). Brandon, Manitoba: Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba. 1991 On the Language of Benjamin Lee Whorf. In Anthropological Poetics. Ivan Brady, ed. pp. 241-266. Savage, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield. 1992 Northern Hunters. In America in 1492: The World of the Indian Peoples Before the Arrival of Columbus. Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., ed. pp. 21-48. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1992 A Tree that Stands Burning: Reclaiming a Point of View as from the Center. In Conversations in Anthropology: Anthropology and Literature. Paul J. Benson, ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. (revised from 1990 article) 1992 Legends. Routledge Encyclopaedia of Commonwealth Literature. (3pp.) 1992 Introduction to The Omaha Tribe by Alice C. Fletcher and Francis La Flesche. 1-8. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press Bison Books. 1992 Fieldwork in Courtroom 53: A Witness to Delgamuukw v. A.G. (26 pp.) Proceedings of Delgamuukw and the Aboriginal Land Question - University of Victoria & Office of the Hereditary Chiefs of the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en - September 10-11, 1993 - [also in BC Studies 95:12-24. 1992] 1994 Tools in the Mind: Northern Athapaskan Ecology, Religion and Technology. Circumpolar Religion and Ecology. Takashi Irimoto and Takako Yamada, eds. 273-288. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. 1994 Dunne-za Stories. Coming to Light:Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America. Brian Swann, ed. 176-189. 1995 The Listener: Dreaming the Soundscape with Howard Broomfield. (Robin and Jillian Ridington). Listening, Playing Creating: Essays on the Power of Sound. Carolyn Bereznak Kenny, ed. 282-300. Albany: State University of New York Press. 1995 Freedom and Authority: Teaching of the Hunters. Native Peoples: The Canadian Experience. Bruce Morrison and C. Roderick Wilson, eds. 232-259. Toronto: McCLellan and Stewart. 1995 Braided Stories: Encounters with "The Real Omaha". Bridges to Humanity: Narratives on Anthropology and Friendship. Bruce Grindal and Frank Salamone, eds. 131-145. Prospect Heights, IL. Waveland Press. 1997 All the Old Spirits Have Come Back to Greet Him: Realizing the Sacred Pole of the Omaha Tribe. Present is Past: Some Uses of Tradition in Native Societies. Marie Mauze, ed. 159-174. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 1997 "You Think It's a Stump But That's My Grandfather": Narratives of Transformation in Northern North America. Circumpolar Animism and Shamanism. Takako Yamada and Takashi Irimoto, eds. Sapporo: Hokkaido University Press. 101-116. 1997 Dreams in Native American Cultures. Dictionnaire de L'esoterism. Fedora Giordano, ed. Presses Uniersitaires de France. (15pp. typescript) 1999 Dogs, Snares and Cartridge Belts: The Poetics of a Northern Athapaskan Narrative Technology. in Making Culture: Essays on Technological Practice, Politics and World Views. Marcia-Anne Dobres and Christopher Hoffman, eds. Smithsonian Institution Press 167-185. 1999 Theorizing Coyote's Cannon: Sharing Stories with Thomas King. Theorizing the Americanist Tradition. Regna Darnell and Lisa Valentine, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 19-37. 2001 Voice, Narrative and Dialogue: The Persistence of Hunter-gatherer Discourse in North America. Identity and Gender in Hunting and Gathering Societies: Papers from the CHAGS8 Conference, Natrional Museum of Ethnology, Osaka 1998. Osaka: Senri Ethnological Studies no.56. Ian Keen and Takako Yamada, eds. 117-132. 2004 Maintaining Dane-zaa Identity: "Those Story I Remember, That's What I Live by Now." (proceedings of Third International Conference of Northern Studies Association, Sapporo, Japan. October, 2000) Osaka: Senri Ethnological Studies no. . Takashi Irimoto and Takako Yamada, eds. 2005 The Songs of Our Elders: Performance and Cultural Survival in Omaha and Dane-zaa Traditions. Robin Ridington, Dennis Hastings, Tommy Attachie. in Powwow. Edited by Clyde Ellis, Luke Eric Lassiter, and Gary H. Dunham. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. In Press for Born in the Blood, edited by Brian Swann for University of Nebraska Press Amber Ridington and Robin Ridington - Performative Translation and Oral Curation:Ti-mJean/Chezan in Beaverland Robin Ridington, Jillian Ridington, Patrick Moore, Kate Hennessy, Amber Ridington - Ethnopoetic Translation in Relation to Audio, Video, and New Media Representations (conference paper) Dreaming First Contact: Stories of the
Dane-zaa. Robin and Jillian
Ridington. Worlds in Collision Colloquium,
February 22-23, 2002. University
of Victoria. Video Documentaries 1. In Doig People's Ears: Portrait of A Changing Native Community. 30 minute video version of audio-visual show - Howard Broomfield, Myrna Cobb, Robin Ridington. 1984. 2. Contact the People - 24 minute video realized by Robin Ridington, Garry Oker and Stacy Shaak. October, 2000. Shown at Third International Conerence of Northern Studies Association, Sapporo, Japan, October 12, 2000. Revised 24 minute version with English subtitles for Beaver language texts presented at Canadian Indigenous Native Studies Association meeting in Saskatoon, June 3, 2001. (24 min) 3. The Otter Man’s Prophecy – Garry Oker, Jillian Ridington, Stacy Shaak, Robin Ridington – Shown at CHAGS 9, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 11, 2002. (24 min) 4. Finding Gayaan's Grave - 16 minute document of search for the grave of the Dreamer who died in 1923. 2004 Robin Ridington 5. The World Will Listen To My Voice - 24 minute subtitled translation of Charlie Yahey's creation story set against video background of environmental scenes - 2006 - Robin Ridington 6. They Dream About Everything – Garry Oker, Stacy Shaak, Robin Ridington, Jillian Ridington & Dane-zaa Elders. 2002 (50 min.) 7. Doig Days, 2009 - 16 minute document of annual event - Robin Ridington 8. Nenan Youth and Elders Camp 2009 - 36 minute document of event - Robin Ridington Virtual Museum of Canada Website (consultant and advisor) Amber Ridington, Kate Hennessy & Doig River Elders Dane Wajich - Dane-zaa Stories & Songs http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Danewajich/ Ridington/Dane-zaa ArchiveAudio, video and still images, as well as many texts, have been digitally archived. Google Dane-zaa archive for URL. Contact Robin Ridington for information about access to site Audio Documentaries 1. "Soundwalk To Heaven" (50 min). Howard Broomfield and Robin Ridington. CFRO Vancouver 1979. 2. "Trails of the Dunne-za: A Suite of Four Radio Pieces"(four 5 min pieces). Howard Broomfield, Jillian Ridington, Robin Ridington. CBC Our Native Land 1980. 3. "Suffering Me Slowly" (60 min). Howard Broomfield, Jillian Ridington, Robin Ridington, consultant. CBC The Hornby Collection 1981. 4. "Nextdoor Neighbors" (30 min). Howard Broomfield, Robin Ridington. CFRO Vancouver 1981. 5. "Old Time Religion" (60 min). Howard Broomfield, Robin Ridington. 1982. Presented as a slide-tape docu-drama at the 1982 Canadian Ethnology Society meetings. 6. "In Doig People's Ears" (42 min). Howard Broomfield, Robin Ridington Consultant. 1983. Composed for a conference on The Sociology of Music: An Exploration of Issues. Trent University: August, 1983. 7. "Gonna Be A Blessing For A Long Time To Come: A Recollection of the 155th Annual Omaha Tribal Pow-wow" (45 min) Robin Ridington, Jillian Ridington, Howard Broomfield. 1985. 8. "Miracle" (27 min). Robin Ridington. 1988. Presented to American Anthropological Association session on "narrative ethnography," November, 1988. 9 "Why Baby Why" (21 min). Robin Ridington and Jillian Ridington, 1990. To accompany paper in special issue of Canadian Journal of Native Studies. 10. Dane-zaa Dreamers' Songs, 1966-2000 Volume One. Suu Na chii K'chi ge (The Place Where Happiness Dwells). Garry Oker, Robin Ridington, Stacy Shaak. |