Dr. Harvey A. Feit
Fellow
Current Employer
McMaster University
Election Year
2001
Academy
Académie des sciences sociales
Discipline
Anthropology / Archaeology
Department
Department of Anthropology
Keywords
Co-governance of State and Indigenous Entities, Sociality and Governance, Environmental Ontologies in Practice, Indigenous Peoples' Life Projects and Rights, Globalization
Harvey Feit is an internationally admired anthropologist known for his outstanding ecological and applied research among the James Bay Cree. A leading scholar of hunter-gatherer societies, he was a pioneer in the study of ethnoecology, culturally-distinctive systems of wildlife resource management, and political ecology. His action-oriented research led to policy and programs that have become standard in Land Claims negotiations in Canada, the U.S. and Australia.