Author : Judy Thompson
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772821632
Analysis and comparison of Kutchin costumes located in North America and European museums, taking two garments of the National Museum of Man (Canadian Ethnology Service) as a starting point.
Author : Louise Dallaire
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822604
An alphabetical and chronological guide to the professional correspondence of anthropologist Edward Sapir during his tenure as Head of the Anthropology Division of the Geological Survey of Canada (1910-1925).
Author : John C. Rath
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822302
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 words from the language where it is represented, cognate words being brought together under a single entry and cross-referenced to each other as they occur at different points in the alphabetical order. The root list is preceded by concise phonologies of each language and an exposition of the techniques used to isolate roots in North Wakashan.
Author : D. L. Guemple
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822108
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 Inuit social organization and kinship.
Author : Albert D. DeBlois
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,77 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 177282254X
This volume consists of a Micmac lexicon formulated on the basis of textual and anecdotal references collected over a quarter of a century from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Québec. It includes almost 5,500 Micmac words and their English equivalents and an exhaustive English key-word index.
Author : Henry S. Sharp
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822205
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 English.
Author : David B. Quinn
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822388
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 the content of these sources and the features of the Amerindian societies which they record.
Author : David McC. Grubb
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772821977
The author outlines a practical orthography for Kwakw’ala, the language spoken by the Kwagulh (Kwakiutl), of coastal British Columbia. In the first section he describes its use with a progression from the most familiar phonemes and symbols to the least while the second offers a functional exemplification in the form of cross-indexed Kwakw’ala-English (approximately 4,000 entries) and English-Kwakw’ala (about 12,000 entries) dictionaries.
Author : Thomas A. O’Brien
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1602231451
The most detailed and well-illustrated study of material culture for any northern Athabascan language group to date, Gwich’in Athabascan Implements reproduces pre- and early post-contact tools that are historically important to the Athabaskan people. A long-term collaboration between anthropologist Thomas O’Brien and Athabascan elder David Salmon, this volume provides more than one hundred one-to-one sketches of a wide variety of implements, many of which are no longer commonly found in use.
Author : Margaret Seguin
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822612
An archival and ethnographic account of Coast Tsimshian feast traditions with emphasis on their role as forms of discourse shaped by idiosyncratic textual conventions.
