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Continuing 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...
Prepared for the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association and the Canadian Ethnology Society, this guide is a revision of one prepared in 1973-74 and provides detailed information on the 72 departments and 1,374 individual scholars for university departments of...
The author discusses the values, social organization, interethnic relations and economic practices of the Kaldera? ?om Gypsies of Eastern Canada from the time of their immigration to the present and concludes that they are highly adaptive within the larger Canadian...
The author outlines a practical orthography for Kwakw’ala, the language spoken by the Kwagulh (Kwakiutl), of coastal British Columbia. In the first section he describes its use with a progression from the most familiar phonemes and symbols to the least while the second...
A study of thirteen Doukhobor Canadian cultural values and the circumstances of their continuity and change over time. In essence: while Doukhobor beliefs are observed by the author to be resistant to change, other aspects of their culture have been modified to conform...
Archaeological investigation of two small house-pit sites located at Hahanudan Lake near the village of Huslia in the Koyukuk River drainage of western interior Alaska has produced lithic assemblages with Norton and Ipiutak culture characteristics. Radiocarbon dating...
Archaeological and ethnohistoric evidence is presented to conclude that the Arrow Lakes region of southeastern British Columbia has been an integrated part of the Columbia plateau for at least 3,300 years. Published in English.
Ten Thule house ruins were excavated during 1968 and 1969 at Silumiut, Kamarvik, and Igluligardjuk, major winter settlements along Roes Welcome Sound and northwestern Hudson Bay. Radiocarbon dating places the occupation of these sites at the end of the twelveth century...
A grammatical outline of the nominal and verbal paradigms of the dialect currently used by the Labrador Inuit of the Atlantic coast. The volume also offers an introduction to the basic grammatical categories, their functions, and the suffixes which express these as well...
Structural analysis of Australian hunter-gatherer societies and a critical assessment of Northern Algonkian literature suggested to the authors the possibility that the social organization of the Cree may have been premised on something other than the nuclear family and...
This volume comprises a selection of papers and reviews concerning material culture. Bilingual Ediion.
An analysis of the forces of assimilation affecting Romanian immigrants to Saskatchewan from the turn of the century to the present. Published in English.
This volume constitutes a description of the origin and development of the Finnish sauna in Manitoba including the evolution of its construction and its social significance for the Manitoba Finnish community. The author concludes that the sauna functions as a metaphor...
Ten samples of skeletal material, from the archaeological sites of Morrison’s Island, Allumette Island, Hind, Cole, Picton, Frontenac Island, Oconto, Riverside, Osceola, and Reigh, are described and examined with regard to cremation techniques, pathological conditions,...
This study defines an early Late Woodland manifestation in southwestern Ontario, the Princess Point Complex.This complex is seen as an early developmental stage of the Ontario Iroquois Tradition. Evidence is presented for changing subsistence and settlement patterns in...
The Saugeen culture of southwestern Ontario (circa 700 B.C and 800 A.D.) is examined at intrasite and intersite levels of comparisons. It is suggested that the Saugeen, Point Peninsula and North Bay cultures should be considered as Middle Tier cultures which interacted...
The Majorville is a large cairn located in the centre of a medicine wheel, situated south of Bassano, Alberta, on the banks of the Bow River. Stratigraphic excavation indicates initial construction in Oxbow times, with additional accretions ending in the Historic...
A model relating human cognition to the decisions made in tool manufacture is advanced as a substitute for those approaches to artifact classification which rely only on morphology. The model is related to experiments designed to link specific input conditions (in stone...
A study of technology, subsistence and settlement patterns of the late Pre-Dorset people who occupied a large coastal site near Churchill, Manitoba around 3,000 years ago. Published in English.
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