Trail to Heaven: Knowledge and Narrative in a Northern Native Community. (book reviews)

It is a confusing time to be an anthropologist. Ridington has written admirably about his confusions in Trail to Heaven. It can be read on two levels, as Ridington's personal narrative and as ethnography. It is a self-revelatory book in the tradition of anthropologists from Laura Bohannan to Hugh Brody.

Superficially, Ridington's book could be criticized as another anthropologist trying to go "native." That would be unfair because one of its greatest strengths is how it deals honestlywith his ache and the ache of many anthropologists to be included as a member of a culture ...

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