Proceedings: Northern Athapaskan Conference, 1971: Volume 2

Proceedings: Northern Athapaskan Conference, 1971: Volume 2
Author: Annette McFadyen Clark
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 459
Release: 1975-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 177282190X

The seventeen papers on Northern Athapaskan research in ethnology, linguistics, and archaeology published in these two volumes were presented at the National Museum of Man Northern Athapaskan Conference in March 1971. The papers are prefaced by a short introduction that outlines the rationale and accomplishments of the Conference.

Proceedings: Northern Athapaskan Conference, 1971: Volume 1

Proceedings: Northern Athapaskan Conference, 1971: Volume 1
Author: Annette McFadyen Clark
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 1975-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772821896

The seventeen papers on Northern Athapaskan research in ethnology, linguistics, and archaeology published in these two volumes were presented at the National Museum of Man Northern Athapaskan Conference in March 1971. The papers are prefaced by a short introduction that outlines the rationale and accomplishments of the Conference.

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
Total Pages: 449
Release: 1975-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772821926

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.

Music of the Netsilik Eskimo: Volume 2

Music of the Netsilik Eskimo: Volume 2
Author: Beverley Cavanagh
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1982-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822450

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
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 177282237X

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 Ethnology Society: Papers from the sixth annual congress, 1979

Canadian Ethnology Society: Papers from the sixth annual congress, 1979
Author: Marie-Françoise Guédon
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 177282240X

Proceedings 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.

Window on the past

Window on the past
Author: Margaret Berlin Blackman
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822353

A description of Northern and Kaigani Haida culture change as understood from a study of over two hundred late nineteenth-century photographs and relevant documentary evidence and ethnographic data.

Encyclopedia of the Arctic

Encyclopedia of the Arctic
Author: Mark Nuttall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 2306
Release: 2005-09-23
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1136786805

With detailed essays on the Arctic's environment, wildlife, climate, history, exploration, resources, economics, politics, indigenous cultures and languages, conservation initiatives and more, this Encyclopedia is the only major work and comprehensive reference on this vast, complex, changing, and increasingly important part of the globe. Including 305 maps. This Encyclopedia is not only an interdisciplinary work of reference for all those involved in teaching or researching Arctic issues, but a fascinating and comprehensive resource for residents of the Arctic, and all those concerned with global environmental issues, sustainability, science, and human interactions with the environment.

Case and context in Inuktitut (Eskimo)

Case and context in Inuktitut (Eskimo)
Author: Ivan Kalmár
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 171
Release: 1979-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822124

An examination of the circumstances under which a speaker chooses one of three possible Inuktitut sentence types containing both subject and object. This volume also includes a grammatical outline of the North Baffin Island dialect.

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.