Proceedings of the second congress, Canadian Ethnology Society: Volume 2
Proceedings of the second congress, Canadian Ethnology Society: Volume 2

Author: Jim Freedman

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1975-01-01

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1772821926

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Papers presented at the Second Annual Conference of the Canadian Ethnology Society held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1975 are offered in two volumes. The first volume includes those which were delivered in the “Myth and Culture” and “The Theory of Markedness in Social Relations and Language” sessions. This second contains those from the “Contemporary Trends in Caribbean Ethnology”, “African Ethnology”, “Anthropology in Canada”, “The Crees and the Geese”, “Early Mercantile Enterprises in Anthropological Perspectives” and “Volunteered Papers” sessions.

Proceedings of the second congress, Canadian Ethnology Society: Volume 1
Proceedings of the second congress, Canadian Ethnology Society: Volume 1

Author: Jim Freedman

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1975-01-01

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1772821918

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Papers presented at the Second Annual Conference of the Canadian Ethnology Society held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1975 are offered in two volumes. This first volume includes those which were delivered in the “Myth and Culture” and “The Theory of Markedness in Social Relations and Language” sessions. The second contains those from the “Contemporary Trends in Caribbean Ethnology”, “African Ethnology”, “Anthropology in Canada”, “The Crees and the Geese”, “Early Mercantile Enterprises in Anthropological Perspectives” and “Volunteered Papers” sessions.

Contributions to Canadian ethnology, 1975
Contributions to Canadian ethnology, 1975

Author: David Brez Carlisle

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1975-01-01

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1772821950

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This volume contains a collection of seven ethnological papers. Gordon M. Day discusses the problem of improperly documented museum specimens; David Damas describes the construction of a Netsilik sled; E. Y. Arima and E. C. Hunt describe the creation of modern Kwakiutl curio masks; Mary Lee Stearns writes about the relevance of life cycle rituals to understanding contemporary Haida culture; J. G. E. Smith talks about the western Woods Cree; while Beryl C. Gillespie discusses the Yellowknife Natives of the North West Territories; and E. S. Rogers offers a historical examination of the Algonkians of southern Ontario.

Music of the Netsilik Eskimo: Volume 2
Music of the Netsilik Eskimo: Volume 2

Author: Beverley Cavanagh

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1982-01-01

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1772822450

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This 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.

Practical Heiltsuk-English dictionary with a grammatical introduction: Volume 2
Practical Heiltsuk-English dictionary with a grammatical introduction: Volume 2

Author: John C. Rath

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1981-01-01

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 177282237X

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One of four North Wakashan languages, Heiltsuk is spoken in the villages of Bella Bella and Klemtu on the British Columbia coast. This two-volume wet offers a grammatical introduction to Heiltsuk which relates the orthography to the phonetics and phonemics, outlines the morphology and syntax, and contains an approximately 9,500 entry dictionary which, in selected instances, indicates grammatical derivatives and/or examples of use as well as English glosses.

Canadian Inuit literature
Canadian Inuit literature

Author: Robin McGrath

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1984-01-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1772822574

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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.

Contributions to Canadian linguistics
Contributions to Canadian linguistics

Author: Eric P. Hamp

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1979-01-01

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 1772822132

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Eric P. Hamp reconsiders the phonological features of the Proto-Algonquian terms for “sun” and “day” and offers a new reconstruction. Robert Howren provides a classic phonemic description of Dogrib phonology, examining selected phonological features from the perspective of generative phonological theory. Brenda M. Lowery discusses Blackfoot phonology. Richard Walker continues the work of Father A. G. Morice in his study Central Carrier phonemics. Quindel King contributes a paper on the Chilcotin language.

Sources for the ethnography of northeastern North America to 1611
Sources for the ethnography of northeastern North America to 1611

Author: David B. Quinn

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1981-01-01

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 1772822388

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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.

Musical traditions of the Labrador coast Inuit
Musical traditions of the Labrador coast Inuit

Author: Maija M. Lutz

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1982-01-01

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1772822418

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An examination of the musical traditions of the Inuit of Nain, Labrador. Particular emphasis is placed upon the influence of Moravian missionaries on Inuit performance since 1771, a situation which is compared with that of Christian missionaries on the Inuit of Pangnirtung, Northwest Territories.