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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. Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1981-01-01
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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...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1981-01-01
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Three Oneida stories (The Widower and His Little Girl, The Young Flirt, and Why the Bear Has No Tail) are presented with an interlinear translation and a morpheme-by-morpheme analysis.Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1981-01-01
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Using written records, genealogies, oral accounts, and linguistic analyses, the author attempts to link the Saint Francis Indians with their seventeenth century forebears. Despite gaps in the extant evidence, he postulates a relationship between the present population...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1981-01-01
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This monograph examines the position of Inuit kinship and its associated behavioural concomitants as they effect the patterning of Inuit ecological relations. It demonstrates the role such features, functioning as one component within the cultural ecological system,...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1981-01-01
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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.Published in...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1981-01-01
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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.Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1981-01-01
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This volume contains papers presented at the Fifth Annual Congress of the Canadian Ethnology Society (London, 1978) with a particular emphasis on matters relating to ethnicity. Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1980-01-01
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This study examines Eastern Cree canoe construction from a variety of anthropological and historical perspectives. The fully detailed and illustrated technical aspects of canoe construction are combined with a description of the social and economic factors, the canoe...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1980-01-01
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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...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1980-01-01
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A compilation of published ethnobotanical data pertaining to all of the Algonkian speaking peoples of eastern North America and field data concerning the Algonquin bands of the Ottawa River drainage and the Cree bands of the St. Maurice drainage of western Quebec. These...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1980-01-01
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This study develops an analytical framework that treats special arrangements of human populations as a fundamental form of ecological adaptation for subarctic aboriginal societies. The geographical mobility of commercial fur trappers and fishermen from the English River...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1980-01-01
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An ethnographic examination of how the Hare, Northern Athapaskan speaking hunters and gatherers of the Fort Good Hope Game area in the Mackenzie River basin, view the world and their place in it. Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1980-01-01
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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...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1980-01-01
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This book contains a listing of approximately 2,650 roots from the various North Waskashan lanugages, namely Heiltsuk (Bella Bella and Klemtu), Oowekyala (Rivers Inlet), Haisla (Kitimat) and Kwakwala (Alert Bay, Port Hardy, etc.). Each root is illustrated with lexical...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1980-01-01
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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...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1979-01-01
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A study of the kinship terms used by the Mission Chipewyan and the social ramifications that result from their basis on relative age and genealogical position, the confusion surrounding kindred and hunting unit functions, and the implications of marriage.Published in...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1979-01-01
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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...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1979-01-01
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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...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1979-01-01
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An examination of the relationship between narrative structure and narrative performance in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta.Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1979-01-01
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