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Download or read book Grateful Prey written by Robert Brightman and published by Regina : Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina 2002. This book was released on 2002 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grateful Preyuncovers the interaction between magico-religious ideology and hunting strategies among the Asinskawoiniwak, or Rock Cree, of Northern Manitoba. Brightman maintains that subsistence strategies need to be analyzed in terms of the foragers' own ethnoecological categories and postulates, both sacred and secular, a position which poses a challenge to prevailing ecological and Marxist approaches to foraging societies and strategies. A major contribution to the study of foraging societies.