Author : Patrick C. Douaud
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1772822620
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.
Author : Patrick Douaud
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Traces the ethnolinguistic development of the Canadian Metis in general and the Mission Metis of Lac La Biche, Alberta in particular. The author hopes to show how multilingualism and composite worldviews can evolve into single factors without cultural loss and perception of self is the ultimate criterian for a realistic assessment of acculturation.
Author : Gunnar Olafur Hansson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0520098781
A revised version of the author's 2001 doctoral dissertation.
Author : Stephen A. Wurm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1903 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110819724
“An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 32,15 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Comparative linguistics
ISBN :
Author : Peter Bakker Researcher University of Aarhus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 1997-05-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198025750
The Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada -- is considered an "impossible language" since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammatical rules. Bakker uses historical research and fieldwork data to present the first detailed analysis of this language and how it came into being.
Author : Patricia A. McCormack
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 16,81 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0774859652
The story of the expansion of civilization into the wilderness continues to shape perceptions of how Aboriginal people became part of nations such as Canada. Patricia McCormack subverts this narrative of modernity by examining nation building from the perspective of a northern community and its residents. Fort Chipewyan, she argues, was never an isolated Aboriginal community but a plural society at the crossroads of global, national, and local forces. By tracing the events that led its Aboriginal residents to sign Treaty No. 8 and their struggle to maintain autonomy thereafter, this groundbreaking study shows that Aboriginal peoples and others can and have become modern without relinquishing cherished beliefs and practices.
Author : Patrick C. Douaud
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889771994
This book contains a collection of articles concerning the Western Metis, published in Prairie Forum between 1978 and 2007. These articles have been chosen for the breadth and scope of the investigations upon which they are based, and for the reflections they will arouse in anyone interested in Western Canadian history and politics.
Author : Bruce Cox
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 1987-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0773581480
The changing roles of native women, devices for assimilation, the re-birth of the Metis: these are among the issues examined in this collection of provocative essays which explore the link between aboriginal culture and economic patterns.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 13,16 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN :
