Author : William Cowan
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 11,82 MB
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772821853
The Sixth Algonquian Conference was held in Ottawa, October 4-6, 1974. It was an inter-disciplinary conference embracing archaeology, history, ethnography and linguistics, and this collection comprises most of the papers presented.
Author : William Cowan
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Marie-Françoise Guédon
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 177282240X
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.
Author : Hiroko S. Hara
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822256
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.
Author : Robert Witmer
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1772822493
A historical and ethnographic study of the dynamic musical traditions of the Blood Indians of southwestern Alberta with particular emphasis on the influence and adaptation of Euro-American culture.
Author : Gaby Pelletier
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,91 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822485
Once an integral feature of the culture and economy of the St. Francis Abenaki at Odanak, splint basketry has become an activity of the elderly. This volume examines the reasons for this change as indicated by alterations to basketry style and construction between 1880 and the present and the influence of historical events.
Author : Julie Cruikshank
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 40,19 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822507
A study of narratives told by female members of the Tagish and Tutchone of central and southern Yukon with particular emphasis on their cultural continuity, function during a period of significant change, and the insights they offer into traditional gender roles. Most important is the author’s revelation of the importance of context in understanding such stories.
Author : Robin McGrath
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 37,44 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822574
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.
Author : Anton F. Kolstee
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1772822469
This paper describes the ethnographic context and analyses the structural characteristics of Bella Coola songs. Seventy-three original transcriptions which encompass a broad spectrum of Bella Coola ceremonial and non-ceremonial repertoires are included.
Author : Susan M. Kenyon
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 177282223X
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.
