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Book Words of the Huron

    Book Details:
  • Author : John L. Steckley
  • Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
  • Release : 2007-02-25
  • ISBN : 1554581354
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Words of the Huron written by John L. Steckley and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2007-02-25 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words of the Huron is an investigation into seventeenth-century Huron culture through a kind of linguistic archaeology of a language that died midway through the twentieth century. John L. Steckley explores a range of topics, including: the construction of longhouses and wooden armour; the use of words for trees in village names; the social anthropological standards of kinship terms and clans; Huron conceptualizing of European-borne disease; the spirit realm of orenda; Huron nations and kinship groups; relationship to the environment; material culture; and the relationship between the French missionaries and settlers and the Huron people. Steckley’s source material includes the first dictionary of any Aboriginal language, Recollect Brother Gabriel Sagard’s Huron phrasebook, published in 1632, and the sophisticated Jesuit missionary study of the language from the 1620s to the 1740s, beginning with the work of Father Jean de Brébeuf. The only book of its kind, Words of the Huron will spark discussion among scholars, students, and anyone interested in North American archaeology, Native studies, cultural anthropology, and seventeenth-century North American history.

Book The Huron Carol

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  • Author : Saint Jean de Brébeuf
  • Publisher : Eerdmans Young Readers
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780802852632
  • Pages : 46 pages

Download or read book The Huron Carol written by Saint Jean de Brébeuf and published by Eerdmans Young Readers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book relates the story of Father Jean de Brbeuf (1593-1649), a Jesuit missionary who lived and worked among the Huron Indians and composed Canada's most beautiful Christmas carol. Full color.

Book The Huron Wendat Feast of the Dead

Download or read book The Huron Wendat Feast of the Dead written by Erik R. Seeman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Appreciating each other's funerary practices allowed the Wendats and French colonists to find common ground where there seemingly would be none. This title analyzes these encounters, using the Feast of the Dead as a metaphor for broader Indian-European relations in North America." -- WorldCat.

Book Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics  Galway  April 6  10 1981

Download or read book Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics Galway April 6 10 1981 written by Anders Ahlqvist and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), which was held in Galway, April 6–10 1981. These papers provide an overview of work in the field of historical linguistics, covering a wide variety of topics and languages.

Book The Bishop of Huron s Objections to the Theological Teaching of Trinity College  with the Provost s Reply  Printed by Order of the Corporation of Trinity College

Download or read book The Bishop of Huron s Objections to the Theological Teaching of Trinity College with the Provost s Reply Printed by Order of the Corporation of Trinity College written by Trinity College (Toronto, Ont.) and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fighting Words

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  • Author : Mark Bourrie
  • Publisher : Dundurn
  • Release : 2012-09-15
  • ISBN : 1459706684
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Fighting Words written by Mark Bourrie and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the best journalism from Canada’s wars, from the time of the Vikings to the war in Afghanistan. Fighting Words is a collection of the very best war journalism created by or about Canadians at war. The collection spans 1,000 years of history, from the Vikings’ fight with North American Natives, through New France’s struggle for survival against the Iroquois and British, to the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Rebellions of Lower and Upper Canada, the Fenian raids, the North-West Rebellion, the First World War, the Second World War, Korea, peacekeeping missions, and Afghanistan. Each piece has an introduction describing the limits placed on the writers, their apparent biases, and, in many cases, the uses of the article as propaganda. The stories were chosen for their impact on the audience they were written for, their staying power, and, above all, the quality of their writing.

Book Bibliography of the Iroquoian Languages

Download or read book Bibliography of the Iroquoian Languages written by James Constantine Pilling and published by Global Language Press. This book was released on 1888 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Translating Catechisms  Translating Cultures

Download or read book Translating Catechisms Translating Cultures written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translating Catechisms, Translating Cultures explores the dimensions of early modern transcultural Christianities; the leeway of religious negotiation in and outside of Europe by comparing catechisms and their translation in the context of several Jesuit missionary strategies. The volume challenges the often assumed paramount Europeanness of Western Christianity. In the early modern period the idea of Tridentine Catholicism was translated into many different regions where it was appropriated and adopted to local conditions. Missionary work always entails translation, linguistic as well as cultural, which results in a modification of the content. Catechisms were central instruments to communicate Christian belief and, therefore, they are central media for all kinds of translation processes. The comparative approach (including China, India, Japan, Ethiopia, Northern America and England) enables the evaluation of different factors like power relations, social differentiation, cultural patterns, gender roles etc. Contributors are: Takao Abé, Anand Amaladass, Leonhard Cohen, Renate Dürr, Antje Flüchter, Ana Hosne, Giulia Nardini, John Ødemark, John Steckley, Alexandra Walsham, Rouven Wirbser.

Book The Martial Imagination

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  • Author : Jimmy L. Bryan
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2013-10-01
  • ISBN : 1623490901
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book The Martial Imagination written by Jimmy L. Bryan and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martial experiences and the mythologies that surround them have profoundly affected the ways in which Americans think of themselves. Wars identify the heroes who help define national character, provide the stories for the grand narratives of belonging and sacrifice, and serve as markers for essential moments of transformation. However, only in the last several years have scholars begun using the term “cultural history of American warfare” to identify the study of how public discourse formulates these defining myths and narratives. This volume brings together scholarship from diverse fields in a common mission to demonstrate the usefulness and significance of studying the cultural history of American warfare. The Martial Imagination: Cultural Aspects of American Warfare canvasses the American war experience from the Revolution to the War on Terror, examining how it infuses legitimacy and conformity with an urgency that contorts ideas of citizenship, nationhood, gender, and other pliable categories. The multidisciplinary scholarship in this volume represents the varied perspectives of cultural history, American studies, literary criticism, war and society, media studies, and public culture analysis, illustrating the rich dialogues that epitomize the cultural history of American warfare. Bringing together both recognized and emerging scholars, this book is the first anthology to feature essays on this topic, comprising research from twelve authors who represent a wide range of experiences and disciplines. Their work uncovers new and surprising understandings of the American war experience that reveal the ways in which culture makers have grappled with the trauma of war, salvaged meaning from the meaningless, or advanced some ulterior agenda.

Book Memory and Emotion

Download or read book Memory and Emotion written by Daniel Reisberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And lastly, why is remembering a creative act that can, and often does, produce faulty memories of our experiences?"--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century

Download or read book The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On Huron s Shore

Download or read book On Huron s Shore written by Pilling Marilyn Gear and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marilyn Gear Pilling brilliantly displayed her competence in describing women in My Nose is a Gherkin Pickle Gone Wrong (1996). Showing them “in all their nakedness ... the voice is neither sentimental nor fussy, the prose spare and fresh” (Quill & Quire). She continued her explorations of Canadian women in The Roseate Spoonbill of Happiness (2002), a collection of stories shortlisted for the Upper Canada writing award by Leon Rooke, Greg Gatenby and Sandra Martin: “Pilling has a confident, quirky voice and her stories range in tone from the heartwarming to the humorous. The domestic landscape is familiar, but this book unlocks the strangeness beneath the familiar. In every one of these stories, the unusual and the unexpected give a perspective that enlarges the understanding and leaves the reader wanting more.” Since 2002, Pilling has produced five books of poetry, and now, with On Huron’s Shore, she has returned to fiction with a collection of linked stories about mothers, daughters, and sisters, set in the landscape of the Huron County of the mid-fifties juxtaposed with the Huron County of today. Gear Pilling takes a humourous and sensual look at the female members of one family as it was then, as it is now.

Book Perspectives on English

Download or read book Perspectives on English written by Emma Vorlat and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Peeters 1994)

Book Bibliography of the Eskimo Language

Download or read book Bibliography of the Eskimo Language written by James Constantine Pilling and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of works in or on the Eskimo dialects of Greenland, North America and Asia (including Aleut) with a chronological index of authors.

Book Petun to Wyandot

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Garrad
  • Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
  • Release : 2014-05-15
  • ISBN : 0776621505
  • Pages : 638 pages

Download or read book Petun to Wyandot written by Charles Garrad and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Petun to Wyandot, Charles Garrad draws upon five decades of research to tell the turbulent history of the Wyandot tribe, the First Nation once known as the Petun. Combining and reconciling primary historical sources, archaeological data and anthropological evidence, Garrad has produced the most comprehensive study of the Petun Confederacy. Beginning with their first encounters with French explorer Samuel de Champlain in 1616 and extending to their decline and eventual dispersal, this book offers an account of this people from their own perspective and through the voices of the nations, tribes and individuals that surrounded them. Through a cross-reference of views, including historical testimony from Jesuits, European explorers and fur traders, as well as neighbouring tribes and nations, Petun to Wyandot uncovers the Petun way of life by examining their culture, politics, trading arrangements and legends. Perhaps most valuable of all, it provides detailed archaeological evidence from the years of research undertaken by Garrad and his colleagues in the Petun Country, located in the Blue Mountains of Central Ontario. Along the way, the author meticulously chronicles the work of other historians and examines their theories regarding the Petun's enigmatic life story.

Book D  liberations Et M  moires de la Soci  t   Royale Du Canada

Download or read book D liberations Et M moires de la Soci t Royale Du Canada written by Royal Society of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Writing a New France  1604 1632

Download or read book Writing a New France 1604 1632 written by Brian Brazeau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this study is the exciting period of French overseas exploration directly following the stagnation caused by the Wars of Religion. The book examines the early period of French involvement in Northeastern America through readings of key texts, principally travel and missionary accounts. Among the works examined are travel writings by Marc Lescarbot (Histoire de la Nouvelle-France) and Samuel de Champlain (Voyages), and missionary works by Gabriel Sagard (Dictionnaire de la Langue Huronne, Histoire du Canada), Jean de Brébeuf, and Paul le Jeune (early Relations de Jésuites). Through a careful examination of these texts, the author discerns a French "rewriting of the self" in relation to the American other, represented by both land and people. America, Brazeau argues, allowed a consolidation of past markers of identity, and forced a radical rereading of others, due to the difficulties presented by the Canadian wilderness and its natives. Writing a New France, 1604-1632 sheds fresh light on a significant moment in French colonial history while providing an innovative contribution to the understanding of early modern French identity and cultural contact.