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Total Pages: 128
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Ojibwa lexicon
Author: G. L. Piggot
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1772822531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Ojibwa lexicon provides data on the geographical distribution and historical development of a variety of Ojibwa dialects. As many features of Ojibwa words are indicated by their endings, a reverse version, sorted right-to-left, is included.
Eskimo economics
Author: William Hugh Jansen
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1979-01-01
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1772822094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA discussion of the different ways in which the Inuit of Rankin Inlet have chosen to adapt to a changing economy.
Practical dictionary of the Coast Tsimshian language
Author: John Asher Dunn
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1978-01-01
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 1772822051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContinuing the work of early researchers like Franz Boas and Amelia Susman, this volume offers readers an indexed Coast Tsimshian dictionary where each lexical entry includes a practical transcription, morphological description, English glosses, and phonetic transcriptions illustrating local variations.
Consciousness and inquiry
Author: Frank Manning
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1772822523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe papers in this volume were prepared for Consciousness and Inquiry, a conference jointly sponsored by the National Museum of Man and the Canadian Ethnology Society, and held in London, Ontario in 1981. The papers focus on interests and concerns which characterize contemporary Canadian ethnology.
Edward Sapir's correspondence
Author: Louise Dallaire
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1772822604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn 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).
Abenaki basketry
Author: Gaby Pelletier
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1982-01-01
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1772822485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce 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.
Ethnolinguistic profile of the Canadian Metis
Author: Patrick C. Douaud
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 117
ISBN-13: 1772822620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing 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.
Identity of the Saint Francis Indians
Author: Gordon M. Day
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1772822329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing 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 and the Sokwaki, Cowassuck, and Penacook tribes of the New Hampshire and Vermont upper Connecticut and Merrimack Valleys and, possibly, the tribes of the middle Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts and the Abenaki tribes of Maine as well.
A basketful of Indian culture change
Author: J. C. Brasser
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1975-01-01
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1772821845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
