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Author: René R. Gadacz
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 1772822582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbstracts of Master’s and Doctoral thesis completed at Canadian universities between 1970-1982 dealing with ethnographic, archaeological, linguistic, and physical anthropological topics relevant to Canada’s Native peoples.
Author: Albert D. DeBlois
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 177282254X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Marie-Françoise Guédon
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 177282240X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings 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: 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).
Author: Robin McGrath
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1772822574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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: Sandra Clarke
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1982-01-01
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1772822426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work outlines the grammatical categories and inflections, both nominal and verbal, of the Montagnais dialect of North-West River, Labrador. The phonological system of the dialect is briefly sketched and, although the present work does not treat the derivational aspects of Montagnais morphology, certain very common derivational forms are included. A survey of the chief sentence types of the North-West River Montagnais is provided.
Author: Beverley Cavanagh
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1982-01-01
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1772822450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study defines the traditional styles and genres of Netsilik Inuit music and examines the extent of change which this music has undergone especially as a result of contact with European and North American music. Volume two consists of song transcriptions and commentaries.
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.
Author: Susan Hilton
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1982-01-01
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1772822477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains fifteen Oowekyala Wakashan texts originally recorded at Rivers Inlet Village on the British Columbia coast with interlinear English translations and general comments on the language and culture.
Author: Anton F. Kolstee
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1982-01-01
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1772822469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
