Hugh Brody

Broschiertes Buch

Landscapes of Silence

From Childhood to the Arctic

Beschreibung

Renowned anthropologist and film-maker Hugh Brody weaves a dazzling tapestry of personal memory and distant landscapes: childhood in England in the shadow of the Second World War, the Derbyshire hills, a kibbutz in Israel and the deep Canadian Arctic.

Autor

Hugh Brody was born in 1943 and educated at Trinity College, Oxford. He taught social anthropology at Queen's University, Belfast. He is an Honorary Associate of the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, and an Associate of the School for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto.$$$In the 1970s he worked with the Canadian Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, and then with Inuit and Indian organisations, mapping hunter-gatherer territories and researching Land Claims and indigenous rights in many parts of Canada. He was an adviser to the Mackenzie Pipeline Inquiry, a member of the World Bank's famous Morse Commission and chairman of the Snake River Independent Review, all of which took him to the encounter between large-scale development and indigenous communities. Since 1997 he has worked with the South African San Institute on Bushman history and land rights in the Southern Kalahari.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 194mm x 125mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 186g
• ISBN-13: 9780571370948
• ISBN-10: 0571370942
• Artikelnr.: 67444555