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Book Proceedings of the second congress  Canadian Ethnology Society  Volume 2

Download or read book Proceedings of the second congress Canadian Ethnology Society Volume 2 written by Jim Freedman and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the Second Annual Conference of the Canadian Ethnology Society held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1975 are offered in two volumes. The first volume includes those which were delivered in the “Myth and Culture” and “The Theory of Markedness in Social Relations and Language” sessions. This second contains those from the “Contemporary Trends in Caribbean Ethnology”, “African Ethnology”, “Anthropology in Canada”, “The Crees and the Geese”, “Early Mercantile Enterprises in Anthropological Perspectives” and “Volunteered Papers” sessions.

Book Canadian Ethnology Society  Papers from the sixth annual congress  1979

Download or read book Canadian Ethnology Society Papers from the sixth annual congress 1979 written by Marie-Françoise Guédon and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Congress of the Canadian Ethnology Society (1979) with contributed papers ranging in topic from semiology to the seventeenth century Iroquois wars to Japanese ghost stories.

Book Proceedings of the Congress   Canadian Ethnology Society

Download or read book Proceedings of the Congress Canadian Ethnology Society written by Canadian Ethnology Society and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contributions to Canadian ethnology  1975

Download or read book Contributions to Canadian ethnology 1975 written by David Brez Carlisle and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a collection of seven ethnological papers. Gordon M. Day discusses the problem of improperly documented museum specimens; David Damas describes the construction of a Netsilik sled; E. Y. Arima and E. C. Hunt describe the creation of modern Kwakiutl curio masks; Mary Lee Stearns writes about the relevance of life cycle rituals to understanding contemporary Haida culture; J. G. E. Smith talks about the western Woods Cree; while Beryl C. Gillespie discusses the Yellowknife Natives of the North West Territories; and E. S. Rogers offers a historical examination of the Algonkians of southern Ontario.

Book Music of the Netsilik Eskimo  Volume 2

Download or read book Music of the Netsilik Eskimo Volume 2 written by Beverley Cavanagh and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study defines the traditional styles and genres of Netsilik Inuit music and examines the extent of change which this music has undergone especially as a result of contact with European and North American music. Volume two consists of song transcriptions and commentaries.

Book Oowekeeno oral traditions as told by the Late Chief Simon Walkus  Sr

Download or read book Oowekeeno oral traditions as told by the Late Chief Simon Walkus Sr written by Susan Hilton and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains fifteen Oowekyala Wakashan texts originally recorded at Rivers Inlet Village on the British Columbia coast with interlinear English translations and general comments on the language and culture.

Book Canadian Inuit literature

Download or read book Canadian Inuit literature written by Robin McGrath and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the development of contemporary Inuit literature, in both Inuktitut and English, including a discussion of its themes, structures and roots in oral tradition. The author concludes that a strong continuity persists between the two narrative forms despite apparent differences in subject matter and language.

Book Case and context in Inuktitut  Eskimo

Download or read book Case and context in Inuktitut Eskimo written by Ivan Kalmár and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the circumstances under which a speaker chooses one of three possible Inuktitut sentence types containing both subject and object. This volume also includes a grammatical outline of the North Baffin Island dialect.

Book Persistent ceremonialism  the Plains Cree and Saulteaux

Download or read book Persistent ceremonialism the Plains Cree and Saulteaux written by Koozma J. Tarasoff and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taped interviews, participant observation, sketches, and photographs pertaining to the Plains Cree and Saulteaux Rain Dance and Sweat Bath Feast illustrate the important role played by the social group in the creation of identity, maintenance of stability, and continuity of Native culture.

Book Ojibwa lexicon

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.

Book Contributions to Canadian linguistics

Download or read book Contributions to Canadian linguistics written by Eric P. Hamp and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric P. Hamp reconsiders the phonological features of the Proto-Algonquian terms for “sun” and “day” and offers a new reconstruction. Robert Howren provides a classic phonemic description of Dogrib phonology, examining selected phonological features from the perspective of generative phonological theory. Brenda M. Lowery discusses Blackfoot phonology. Richard Walker continues the work of Father A. G. Morice in his study Central Carrier phonemics. Quindel King contributes a paper on the Chilcotin language.

Book Proceedings of the First Congress  Canadian Ethnology Society

Download or read book Proceedings of the First Congress Canadian Ethnology Society written by Canadian Ethnology Society and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First annual conference of the Canadian Ethnology Society held in February 1974 at Levis, Quebec. Papers include some on the role of the judiciary in native rights in Canada, amerindianization, biosocial anthropology etc.

Book Window on the past

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Berlin Blackman
  • Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
  • Release : 1981-01-01
  • ISBN : 1772822353
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Window on the past written by Margaret Berlin Blackman and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of Northern and Kaigani Haida culture change as understood from a study of over two hundred late nineteenth-century photographs and relevant documentary evidence and ethnographic data.

Book Contextual studies of material culture

Download or read book Contextual studies of material culture written by David W. Zimmerly and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of papers focusing on a contextual assessment of Native material culture research plus commentary on the current state of such studies and identification of possible future trends.

Book Ethnohistoric study of eastern James Bay Cree social organization  1700 1850

Download or read book Ethnohistoric study of eastern James Bay Cree social organization 1700 1850 written by Toby Morantz and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seeking to examine the accommodation by this Northern Algonquian people to the fur trade, this study first outlines the historical development and ecological setting and then looks at the question of social change from the perspectives of economic adaptations, group structure, leadership and territorial organization.