Robin Ridington

Robin Ridington (born November 1, 1939 in Westminster , Maryland , United States ) is a North American anthropologist and ethnologist , professor emeritus from the University of British Columbia and a specialist in the oral history of the First Nations .

Life

Robin Ridington was born in Westminster, Maryland in 1939. He graduated from Westminster High School in 1957 and received his Bachelor of Arts in anthropology from Swarthmore College in 1962, his Ph.D. he graduated from Harvard University in 1968.

For many years Ridington has been researching oral history, i.e. the oral transmission of rites and myths by Canadian Indians of the First Nation, in particular the Dunne-za , the Iroquois and the Omaha , since 1964, using extensive audio and video documentation since 1964 Mrs. Jillian Ridington was supported, with whom he brought out much of his work. From 1967 on, Robin Ridington was Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. He has been retired since 1995, and continues to research and write in his fields.

1989 his work won Trail to Heaven: Knowledge and Narrative in a Northern Native community to the BC Book Prizes belonging Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize .

Ridington has lived with his wife for decades on Galiano Island , British Columbia, and has long trekking tours and the writing of sonnets as a hobby .

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Reference books

• Swan People: A Study of the Dunne-za Prophet Dance . Canadian Ethnology Service Mercury Series 38. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada 1978.
• Robin and Jillian Ridington: People of the Trail: How the Northern Forest Indians Lived . Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre 1978.
• Jillian and Robin Ridington: People of the Longhouse: How the Iroquoian People Lived . Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre 1982.
• Trail to Heaven: Knowledge and Narrative in a Northern Native Community . Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. Canadian co-publication by Douglas and McIntyre, Vancouver 1988.
• Little Bit Know Something: Stories in a Language of Anthropology . Iowa City: University of Iowa Press 1992. (Douglas and McIntyre, Vancouver.)
• Robin Ridington and Dennis Hastings: Blessing for a Long Time: The Sacred Pole of the Omaha Tribe . Lincoln: University of Nebraska 1997
• Robin and Jillian Ridington: When You Sing It Now, Just Like New: First Nations Poetics, Voices and Representations . Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 2006.

Poems

• The Poets Don't Write Sonnets Anymore . Plume of Cockatoo Press: Galiano 2008

Web links

• Homepage of Robin Ridington
• The Ridington / Dane-zaa Digital Archive (audio and video documents)
• Author portrait and compilation of reviews on ABCbookworld.com (English)

Individual evidence

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