Between nature and culture: Jacques Rousseau and the beginning of Quebec anthropology

Doi: 10.33876/2311-0546/2019-46-2/119-139

Abstract

The article is about the Canadian ethnologist and the botanist Jacques Rousseau, one of the founders of anthropology in Quebec. It follows his footsteps in science from botany to ethnobotany, and then his way from ethnobotany to ecological approach in anthropology is traced. The article considers his efforts in solving the economical and social problems of this area with his plans on reindeer breeding introduction in the north of Quebec-Labrador as an example.

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