Hunting ‘bosses,’ inequality and the question of exploitation: structures and practices in James Bay Cree society

This analysis explores the complex and reticulate relationships between Waswanipi Cree symbolic structures, social practices, and the material conditions of hunting. The analyses of contemporary processes are presented around the issue of the nature of the social inequality arising from the contemporary Cree hunting territory leadership and the related question of whether these inequalities are associated with forms of exploitation. These …