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Literary and morphemic translations of eight Nassilingmiut (Central Arctic Inuit) myths are provided. Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1979-01-01
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This amply illustrated book documents the construction of a Bering Sea-style kayak made in the community of Hooper Bay, Alaska, under the direction of Dick Bunyan. Written as journal entries, the text details construction from the initial splitting of the wood to the...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1979-01-01
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An examination of the role of play in Inuit society with respect to the creation, maintenance, and internalization of social values. Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1979-01-01
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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. Published in English.
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1979-01-01
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A discussion of the different ways in which the Inuit of Rankin Inlet have chosen to adapt to a changing economy. Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1979-01-01
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Biographical sketches of seven Athapaskan women residing in the Yukon are provided together with a selection of legends and a discussion of changes in the lives of Athapaskan women in the twentieth century.Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1979-01-01
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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,...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1978-01-01
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A selected bibliography of holdings (nineteenth and twentieth century, English language private papers) in the Public Archives of Canada of interest to the study of women’s history. Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1978-01-01
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This volume presents some of the myths and oratories of the Dunne-za or Beaver of the upper Peace River. The first section offers a discussion of how the Dunne-za adapt the prophet tradition common to northwestern Native peoples to a nomadic hunter lifestyle while the...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1978-01-01
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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)...
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1978-01-01
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A cultural and historical examination of the musical traditions of the Baffin Island Inuit of Cumberland Peninsula. Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1978-01-01
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The first comprehensive overview of the Native peoples residing in the Hudson’s River area since E. M. Ruttenber’s History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson’s River (1872), this volume utilizes data from a variety of sources including archaeology, historical documents, and...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1978-01-01
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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. Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1977-01-01
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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...
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1977-01-01
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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...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1975-01-01
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The seventeen papers on Northern Athapaskan research in ethnology, linguistics, and archaeology published in these two volumes were presented at the National Museum of Man Northern Athapaskan Conference in March 1971.The papers are prefaced by a short introduction that...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1975-01-01
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The seventeen papers on Northern Athapaskan research in ethnology, linguistics, and archaeology published in these two volumes were presented at the National Museum of Man Northern Athapaskan Conference in March 1971.The papers are prefaced by a short introduction that...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1975-01-01
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This study of the decorative patterns on aboriginal woven and woodsplint basketry reveals the tenacious survival of basic artistic concepts of aboriginal origin. The woodsplint technique was adopted by Natives to adapt their crafts to the white market. Published in...
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1975-01-01
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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...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1975-01-01
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Activities of the Canadian Ethnology Service for 1974. Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1975-01-01
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