Thesis and dissertation titles and abstracts on the anthropology of Canadian Indians, Inuit and Metis from Canadian universities

Thesis and dissertation titles and abstracts on the anthropology of Canadian Indians, Inuit and Metis from Canadian universities
Author: René R. Gadacz
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 142
Release: 1984-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822582

Abstracts 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.

Canadian Inuit literature

Canadian Inuit literature
Author: Robin McGrath
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1984-01-01
Genre: 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.

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
Total Pages: 99
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: 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.

Hare Indians and their world

Hare Indians and their world
Author: Hiroko S. Hara
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1980-01-01
Genre: 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.

Ethnohistoric study of eastern James Bay Cree social organization, 1700-1850

Ethnohistoric study of eastern James Bay Cree social organization, 1700-1850
Author: Toby Morantz
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 1983-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822515

In seeking to examine the accommodation by this Northern Algonquian people to the fur trade, this study first outlines the historical development and ecological setting and then looks at the question of social change from the perspectives of economic adaptations, group structure, leadership and territorial organization.

North-West River (Sheshatshit) Montagnais :a grammatical sketch

North-West River (Sheshatshit) Montagnais :a grammatical sketch
Author: Sandra Clarke
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 195
Release: 1982-01-01
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1772822426

This 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.

Edward Sapir's correspondence

Edward Sapir's correspondence
Author: Louise Dallaire
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1984-01-01
Genre: 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).

Algonquin ethnobotany

Algonquin ethnobotany
Author: Meredith Jean Black
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1980-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822272

A compilation of published ethnobotanical data pertaining to all of the Algonkian speaking peoples of eastern North America and field data concerning the Algonquin bands of the Ottawa River drainage and the Cree bands of the St. Maurice drainage of western Quebec. These data help illuminate past subsistence patterns, the seasonal movements of the Algonquin, and the relationship between Algonquin bands and other Algonkian speakers. They also indicate that the Algonquin previously enjoyed a subarctic subsistence orientation similar to that of the Cree and other northerners in contrast to their Iroquoian neighbours thus necessitating a redefinition of the eastern subarctic culture area.