Download or read book A Practical Writing System and Short Dictionary of Kwakw ala Kwakiutl written by David McC. Grubb and published by National Museums of Canada. This book was released on 1977 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A phonemically accurate, practical spelling system of Kwakw'ala.
Download or read book practical writing system and short dictionary of Kwakw ala Kwakiutl written by David McC. Grubb and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author outlines a practical orthography for Kwakw’ala, the language spoken by the Kwagulh (Kwakiutl), of coastal British Columbia. In the first section he describes its use with a progression from the most familiar phonemes and symbols to the least while the second offers a functional exemplification in the form of cross-indexed Kwakw’ala-English (approximately 4,000 entries) and English-Kwakw’ala (about 12,000 entries) dictionaries.
Download or read book Practical dictionary of the Coast Tsimshian language written by John Asher Dunn and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the work of early researchers like Franz Boas and Amelia Susman, this volume offers readers an indexed Coast Tsimshian dictionary where each lexical entry includes a practical transcription, morphological description, English glosses, and phonetic transcriptions illustrating local variations.
Download or read book Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim written by Michael Fortescue and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim is an extension of the author's earlier volume Eskimo Orientation Systems (also published in the series Monographs on Greenland - Meddelelser om Gronland, Man & Society, 1988). This time it covers all the contiguous languages ? and cultures ? across the northern Pacific rim from Vancouver Island in Canada to Hokkaido in northern Japan, plus the adjacent Arctic coasts of Alaska and Chukotka. These form a testing ground for recent theories concerning the nature and classification of orientation systems and their shared ?frames of reference?, in particular the many varieties of ?landmark? systems typifying the Arctic and sub-Arctic. Despite the wide variety of languages spoken here (all of them endangered), there is much in common as regards their overlapping geographical settings and the ways in which terms for orientation within the microcosm (the house) and within the macrocosm (the surrounding environment) mesh throughout the region. This is illustrated with numerous maps and diagrams, from both coastal and inland sites. Attention is paid to ambiguities and anomalies within the systems revealed by the data, as these may be clues to pre-historic movements of the populations concerned ? from a riverine setting to the coast, from the coast to inland, or more complex successive displacements. Cultural factors over and beyond environmental determinism are discussed within this broad context."
Download or read book Inuit language in southern Labrador from 1694 1785 La langue inuit au Sud du Labrador de 1964 1785 written by Louis-Jacques Dorais and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph consists of word and affix-lists, as well as grammatical observations, concerning the language of the Southern Labrador Inuit from 1694 to 1785. They were collected from written texts of this period and show that the language of these eighteenth century Inuit is almost identical with that of their contemporaries in the Eastern Canadian Arctic./Ce travail présente sous forme de listes de mots et d’affixes ainsi que de remarques grammaticales les données linguistiques continues dans les textes d’époque portant sur les Inuits du Labrador méridional, de 1694 à 1785. Il nous permet de constater que la langue inuit du18e siècle était, à peu de choses près, semblable à celle qui est parlée aujourd’hui dans l’Arctique oriental canadien.
Download or read book A reference grammar for the coast Tsimshian language written by John Asher Dunn and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A general introduction to the phonology, morphology, and syntax of contemporary Coast Tsimshian. The grammar provided helps explain the practical orthography used, pronunciation and sound changes, word formation, and syntax.
Download or read book Shamattawa written by David H. Turner and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structural analysis of Australian hunter-gatherer societies and a critical assessment of Northern Algonkian literature suggested to the authors the possibility that the social organization of the Cree may have been premised on something other than the nuclear family and institution of cross-cousin marriage. Indeed, data collected from Shamattawa, a Swampy Cree community in northern Manitoba, indicates that the social structure operates on four distinct, yet productively undifferentiated, levels reflected both in relationship terms and ideology. This resulted in a revised model of band society.
Download or read book Inuit adoption written by D. L. Guemple and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing primary ethnographic evidence from Hudson Bay and documentary evidence pertaining to other regions of the Arctic, the author examines the practice of Inuit adoption. The conclusions of this study have significant ramifications with respect to understanding Inuit social organization and kinship.
Download or read book A Survey of the Derivational Postbases of Labrador Inuttut Eskimo written by Lawrence R. Smith and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes a dictionary of derivational postbases currently used by the Labrador Coast Inuit. Each entry includes the Inuttut form in phonemic orthography, morphophonemic specifications, an English semantic characterization, indications of idiosyncrasies, and three examples. An introduction to word formation is also provided.
Download or read book Individual in northern Dene thought and communication written by Jane Christian and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of social cognitive patterning from the perspective of a Mackenzie drainage Dene community with additional discussion of related topics, including communication, learning, and classification.
Download or read book Canadian Ethnology Society Papers from the fourth annual congress 1977 written by Richard J. Preston and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to Applied Anthropology in Canada, this compilation of papers is likewise a product of the Fourth Annual Congress of the Canadian Ethnology Society which took place in Halifax in 1977. Papers are categorized according to the seven sessions: (1) Maritime Ethnology, (2) Micmac Research, (3) Folklore, (4) The Stranger, (5) The Context of Friendship, (6) Property and Ownership, and (7) Wage Labour Migration.
Download or read book Ojibwa lexicon written by G. L. Piggot and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Ojibwa lexicon provides data on the geographical distribution and historical development of a variety of Ojibwa dialects. As many features of Ojibwa words are indicated by their endings, a reverse version, sorted right-to-left, is included.
Download or read book Kyuquot way written by Susan M. Kenyon and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes a modern Nootka community from a historical perspective. Despite evidence of significant change over time with respect to material culture, technology, and political institutions, considerable continuity exists insofar as codes of social interaction, community values and ideals are concerned.
Download or read book Solstice aligned boulder configurations in Saskatchewan written by Alice Beck Kehoe and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of eleven Saskatchewan boulder configurations examined by the authors, three were found to correlate to astronomical phenomena. Although a search for local oral traditions which might explain these associations proved largely fruitless, there was some evidence that the configurations may have functioned as memorials to dead chiefs and as year-beginning markers for past calendar keepers.
Download or read book Consciousness and inquiry written by Frank Manning and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume were prepared for Consciousness and Inquiry, a conference jointly sponsored by the National Museum of Man and the Canadian Ethnology Society, and held in London, Ontario in 1981. The papers focus on interests and concerns which characterize contemporary Canadian ethnology.
Download or read book Inuit songs from Eskimo Point written by Ramon Pelinski and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of forty-one Inuit songs from Eskimo Point, Northwest Territories, featuring three genres: ajajait (personal songs), animal songs, and songs sung by children playing games.
Download or read book Coast Salish gambling games written by Lynn Maranda and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines in detail, the histories and customs of Coast Salish gambling games and looks at the game structure and its attending spirit power affiliations.
