Raising Spirit in Blackfoot Territory: Collaborative Design and Ethnographic Refusal

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Jan Newberry

Raising Spirit in Blackfoot Territory

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Collaborative Design and Ethnographic Refusal

Jan Newberry

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English

University of Toronto Press
04 February 2026

Social & cultural history; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; First Nations; Age groups: children; Anthropology

Raising Spirit in Blackfoot Territory examines the ethnographic dilemmas that arose across the run of the Raising Spirit project. This book asks what ethnography can be in the era of reconciliation based on this multi-year, multimodal, collaborative project to articulate child-rearing values in Blackfoot Territory.

Collaborative work between a university and Indigenous community organization to build a digital storytelling library brought together researchers young and old, Indigenous and settler, university and community based. This book centrally concerns ethnography as a form of expertise and its need for a decolonizing fix. Young researchers were positioned as para-ethnographers and tasked with identifying cultural values for the digital library. Their design-influenced innovations to code collaboratively were an inspired answer to the political and ethical questions of knowledge production in a time of Indigenous resurgence and racial reckoning. Yet, when asked to serve as culture experts, young Indigenous researchers refused. The generative power of their refusals revealed the possibility for new imaginaries that exceed ethnographic recognition. Anthropologist Jan Newberry probes deeply into important questions on how to produce knowledge in a system that was designed to erase the voices it now is trying to bring to the fore. This work contributes to the reimagining of ethnographic methods in anthropology and productively expands attention to issues of expertise and ethnographic collaboration with Indigenous peoples.

By: Jan Newberry
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781487560027
ISBN 10: 1487560028
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 04 February 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Figures Foreword 1. What Ethnography Can and Cannot Do 2. Patchwork Project 3. Culture Experts in the Making 4. Ethnographic Recognition and Refusal 5. Coding Improvisations 6. Double-Bind Ethnography After Raising Spirit Bibliography

Jan Newberry is a professor emeritus of anthropology at University of Lethbridge and co-founder of the Institute for Child and Youth Studies and the Community Bridge Lab.

Reviews for Raising Spirit in Blackfoot Territory: Collaborative Design and Ethnographic Refusal

""Raising Spirit in Blackfoot Territory is an excellent book – highly original and a pleasure to read. Given the many concerns surrounding social-science research, not only but especially with Indigenous researchers and within Indigenous communities, this book makes a very important contribution to contemporary scholarship. It takes on, in an honest and compelling way, some of today’s keys issues confronting social researchers and their local collaborators, and it deserves an audience."" -- Daniel M. Goldstein, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Rutgers University ""Throughout the book there are some very thoughtful, provoking, and productive discussions of collaborative ethnography. It is so rare that we get overviews like this of long and unwieldy projects that also address key anthropological and ethnographic problems with such care and sensitivity and are written in an accessible and humble way."" -- Dr. Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Independent Scholar and Professor Emeritus of Visual Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London