Download or read book Bear Lake Athapaskan kinship and task group formation written by Scott Rushforth and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the influence of bilateral kinship principles on the social organization of the Sahtúgot’ine (Bear Lake People), a Northeastern Athapaskan group. The recognition that factors other than kinship and marriage are also pertinent to an understanding of Sahtúgot’ine social organization has ramifications with respect to traditional Northeastern Athapaskan bands.
Download or read book A Theory Of Northern Athapaskan Prehistory written by John W Ives and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the conceptual basis for the events and processes in the prehistory of the Athapaskans, one of the most wide-spread peoples in western North America. The author bases his research on the premise that social structure is not passively dependent on the technological and economic bases of society, and argues that, ultimately, kinshi
Download or read book Ways of Knowing written by Jean-Guy Goulet and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creative world of a northern Native community is revealed in this innovative book. Once semi-nomadic hunters and gatherers, the Dene Tha of northern Canada today live in government-built homes in the settlement of Chateh. Their lives are a distinct blend of old and new, in which more traditional forms of social control, healing, and praying entwine with services supplied by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a nursing station, and a Roman Catholic church. Many older cultural beliefs and practices remain: ghosts still linger, reincarnating and sometimes stealing children's souls; dreams and visions are powerful shapers of actions; and personal visions and experiences are considered the sources of true knowledge.
Download or read book About the Hearth written by David G. Anderson and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to changing climates and demographics, questions of policy in the circumpolar north have focused attention on the very structures that people call home. Dwellings lie at the heart of many forms of negotiation. Based on years of in-depth research, this book presents and analyzes how the people of the circumpolar regions conceive, build, memorialize, and live in their dwellings. This book seeks to set a new standard for interdisciplinary work within the humanities and social sciences and includes anthropological work on vernacular architecture, environmental anthropology, household archaeology and demographics.
Download or read book Cultural Persistence written by Scott Rushforth and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1991-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bearlake Athapaskan-speaking Indians of Canada's Northwest Territories have valued industriousness, generosity, individual autonomy, and emotional restraint for many generations. They also highly esteem "control" in human thought and behavior. The latter value integrates the others in a coherent framework of moral responsibility that persists as a central feature of Bearlake culture. Rushforth here provides an ethnographic description and analysis of these beliefs and values, which considers their relationship to examples of Bearlake social behavior.
Download or read book Edward Sapir s correspondence written by Louise Dallaire and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabetical and chronological guide to the professional correspondence of anthropologist Edward Sapir during his tenure as Head of the Anthropology Division of the Geological Survey of Canada (1910-1925).
Download or read book The Trail of the Hare written by Joel S. Savishinsky and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnographic study of the Kawchodinne or Hare Indians from the village of Colville Lake, NWT.
Download or read book A Hopi Social History written by Scott Rushforth and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Incorporate[s] a multitude of theoretical approaches about Hopi sociological life . . . Ranging from prehistoric times until contemporary times.” —Indigenous Nations Studies Journal All anthropologists and archaeologists seek to answer basic questions about human beings and society. Why do people behave the way they do? Why do patterns in the behavior of individuals and groups sometimes persist for remarkable periods of time? Why do patterns in behavior sometimes change? A Hopi Social History explores these basic questions in a unique way. The discussion is constructed around a historically ordered series of case studies from a single sociocultural system (the Hopi) in order to understand better the multiplicity of processes at work in any sociocultural system through time. The case studies investigate the mysterious abandonments of the Western Pueblo region in late prehistory, the initial impact of European diseases on the Hopis, Hopi resistance to European domination between 1680 and 1880, the split of Oraibi village in 1906, and some responses by the Hopis to modernization in the twentieth century. These case studies provide a forum in which the authors examine a number of theories and conceptions of culture to determine which theories are relevant to which kinds of persistence and change. With this broad theoretical synthesis, the book will be of interest to students and scholars in the social sciences. “A foundation for general discourse on anthropological theory and explanation . . . Covering the prehistoric, Spanish, early historic, and contemporary periods.” —American Indian Quarterly
Download or read book End of Earth People written by Bern Will Brown and published by Dundurn.com. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bern Will Brown provides an in-depth account of the Northwest Territories' Sahtu Dene people (named "Arctic Hareskin" people by European explorers) across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book includes insights into how the communities address modern life and growing threats to their traditions and identity.
Download or read book North American Indians written by Alice Beck Kehoe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in an easy-to-read, narrative format, this volume provides the most comprehensive coverage of North American Indians from earliest evidence through 1990. It shows Indians as "a people with history" and not as primitives, covering current ideological issues and political situations including treaty rights, sovereignty, and repatriation. A must-read for anyone interested in North American Indian history. This is a comprehensive and thought-provoking approach to the history of the native peoples of North America (including Mexico and Canada) and their civilizations.For Native American courses taught in anthropology, history and Native American Studies.
Download or read book A concise Nuxalk English dictionary written by H. F. Nater and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary lists in alphabetical order over 2,000 Nuxalk morphemes, as well as sample words and sentences, gathered by the author at Bella Coola, British Columbia, between 1972 and 1983. The morphemes are numbered, and reference is frequently made to the author’s Nuxalk grammar which appeared earlier in this series (Paper No. 92).
Download or read book Acaoohkiwina and Acimowina written by Robert A. Brightman and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives from different genres of Rock Cree oral literature in northwestern Manitoba, together with interpretive and comparative commentary are presented.
Download or read book Power and performance in Gros Ventre war expedition songs written by Orin T. Hatton and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a cultural analysis of power and performance in Gros Ventre war expedition songs. Symbolic content of Gros Ventre myth and ritual is elicited as a tool for analyzing particular social relationships that motivate war expeditions as action and value. Mythological and musical analysis combine in an investigation of structural and performance devices that frame song as a system of communication.
Download or read book Red Earth Crees 1860 1960 written by David Meyer and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic and documentary study of the subsistence-settlement patterns and social organization of the Red Earth Cree of east central Saskatchewan with particular emphasis upon a “deme” (discrete intermarriage arrangement) they shared with the Shoal Lake Cree. The author argues that demes are characteristic of hunter-gatherers but that environment, the events of the contact period, and modern government have disrupted its practice among Northern Algonkians.
Download or read book Interpretive contexts for traditional and current coast Tsimshian feasts written by Margaret Seguin and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An archival and ethnographic account of Coast Tsimshian feast traditions with emphasis on their role as forms of discourse shaped by idiosyncratic textual conventions.
Download or read book Wild plant use by the Woods Cree Nihithawak of east central Saskatchewan written by Anna L. Leighton and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the varied uses of local flora by the Saskatchewan Woods Cree; for example, in medicine, food, and construction. The results are subsequently compared with similar information pertaining to the Chippewa, Mistassini Cree, Attikamek, Alberta Cree, and Slave.
Download or read book Ethnolinguistic profile of the Canadian Metis written by Patrick C. Douaud and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing upon the Mission Métis of Lac la Biche, the author examines the use of French, Cree, and English as a means of garnering insight into the mechanisms of western Canadian Métis cultural and linguistic variation. He concludes that the relationship of the people to their environment is inextricably bound to an understanding of their language and culture and that the delineation of cultural boundaries is, therefore, a highly complex matter.
