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.
Download or read book Proceedings of the second congress Canadian Ethnology Society Volume 1 written by Jim Freedman and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 296 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. This first volume includes those which were delivered in the “Myth and Culture” and “The Theory of Markedness in Social Relations and Language” sessions. The 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.
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.
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.
Download or read book Practical Heiltsuk English dictionary with a grammatical introduction Volume 2 written by John C. Rath and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of four North Wakashan languages, Heiltsuk is spoken in the villages of Bella Bella and Klemtu on the British Columbia coast. This two-volume wet offers a grammatical introduction to Heiltsuk which relates the orthography to the phonetics and phonemics, outlines the morphology and syntax, and contains an approximately 9,500 entry dictionary which, in selected instances, indicates grammatical derivatives and/or examples of use as well as English glosses.
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.
Download or read book Thesis and dissertation titles and abstracts on the anthropology of Canadian Indians Inuit and Metis from Canadian universities written by René R. Gadacz and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of Master’s and Doctoral thesis completed at Canadian universities between 1970-1982 dealing with ethnographic, archaeological, linguistic, and physical anthropological topics relevant to Canada’s Native peoples.
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.
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.
Download or read book Sources for the ethnography of northeastern North America to 1611 written by David B. Quinn and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide attempts to enumerate the printed and manuscript sources for northeastern North American ethnography from the earliest discoveries by Europeans down to the time of the effective establishment of European settlements in the area and also to indicate briefly the content of these sources and the features of the Amerindian societies which they record.
Download or read book Micmac lexicon written by Albert D. DeBlois and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of a Micmac lexicon formulated on the basis of textual and anecdotal references collected over a quarter of a century from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Québec. It includes almost 5,500 Micmac words and their English equivalents and an exhaustive English key-word index.
Download or read book Bella Coola language written by H. F. Nater and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of the phonology, morphonology, morphology, syntax, historical, areal, and typological features of the Salish language of Bella Coola, British Columbia.
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.
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 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.
Download or read book Changing economic roles for Micmac men and women written by Ellice Becker Gonzalez and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the alteration and adaptation of Micmac male and female roles in Nova Scotia over a period of four hundred years in the context of the broader changes which their society experienced as it interacted with the dominant European culture.
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.
