Télécharger le livre :  Hooper Bay kayak construction
This amply illustrated book documents the construction of a Bering Sea-style kayak made in the community of Hooper Bay, Alaska, under the direction of Dick Bunyan. Written as journal entries, the text details construction from the initial splitting of the wood to the...

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Télécharger le livre :  A reference grammar for the coast Tsimshian language
A general introduction to the phonology, morphology, and syntax of contemporary Coast Tsimshian. The grammar provided helps explain the practical orthography used, pronunciation and sound changes, word formation, and syntax. Published in English.

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Télécharger le livre :  Textile traditions of eastern Newfoundland
A description of the once communal and now individual activity of textile production in eastern Newfoundland including dyeing techniques, fancywork, and the creation of mittens, socks, sweaters, mats, and quilts. The author identifies an emphasis on the quality of the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Thule Eskimo Culture
Proceedings of a symposium devoted to Thule archaeology and related northern studies, held at the tenth annual meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association in Ottawa in 1977. The thirty-one papers range from Thule chronology and culture history, prehistoric-recent...

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Télécharger le livre :  Case and context in Inuktitut (Eskimo)
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. Published in English.

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Télécharger le livre :  Bekevar
A selection of papers focusing on the Hungarian-Canadian community of Békévar (renamed Kipling), Saskatchewan, including discussions of Békévar folklore, family, material culture, language, and history. Published in English.

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Télécharger le livre :  Chipewyan marriage
A study of the kinship terms used by the Mission Chipewyan and the social ramifications that result from their basis on relative age and genealogical position, the confusion surrounding kindred and hunting unit functions, and the implications of marriage.Published in...

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A collection of forty-one Inuit songs from Eskimo Point, Northwest Territories, featuring three genres: ajajait (personal songs), animal songs, and songs sung by children playing games. Published in English.

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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...

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Télécharger le livre :  Context of the informant narrative performance
An examination of the relationship between narrative structure and narrative performance in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta.Published in English.

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Télécharger le livre :  Inuit adoption
Utilizing primary ethnographic evidence from Hudson Bay and documentary evidence pertaining to other regions of the Arctic, the author examines the practice of Inuit adoption. The conclusions of this study have significant ramifications with respect to understanding...

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Télécharger le livre :  Solstice-aligned boulder configurations in Saskatchewan
Of eleven Saskatchewan boulder configurations examined by the authors, three were found to correlate to astronomical phenomena. Although a search for local oral traditions which might explain these associations proved largely fruitless, there was some evidence that the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Lunenburg County folklore and oral hishistory
This volume offers a compilation of folklore material gathered from Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, including data relating to traditional work patterns, education, values, beliefs, and songs. Published in English.

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Télécharger le livre :  Approaches to native history in Canada
The papers included in this volume concern the different ways in which Europeans have interacted with Native peoples such as through trade, religious missions, and land use. Published in English.

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Télécharger le livre :  A Survey of the Derivational Postbases of Labrador Inuttut (Eskimo)
This volume constitutes a dictionary of derivational postbases currently used by the Labrador Coast Inuit. Each entry includes the Inuttut form in phonemic orthography, morphophonemic specifications, an English semantic characterization, indications of idiosyncrasies,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Algonquin dialect relationships in Northwestern Quebec
The author compares and contrasts the lexicon, phonology, and grammar of dialects spoken in five northwestern Quebec Algonquin communities. Isoglosses of contrasting features are provided in addition to an appendix of supplementary information. Published in English.

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Télécharger le livre :  Swan people
This volume presents some of the myths and oratories of the Dunne-za or Beaver of the upper Peace River. The first section offers a discussion of how the Dunne-za adapt the prophet tradition common to northwestern Native peoples to a nomadic hunter lifestyle while the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Contextual studies of material culture
A selected bibliography of holdings (nineteenth and twentieth century, English language private papers) in the Public Archives of Canada of interest to the study of women’s history. Published in English.

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An expanded and revised compilation of Canadian archaeological radiocarbon dates including those of the first publication in 1969 to the spring of 1976. Sites are arranged alphabetically by province or territory.An index of Borden Site Designation System numbers is...

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Télécharger le livre :  Index for the Urban History Review 1972-1977 / Index pour la revue d'histoire urbaine 1972-1977
Index of the first six years of the publication of the Urban History Review/La revue d’histoire urbaine published by the History Division, National Museum of Man in association with the Urban History Committee of the Canadian Historical Association by author, subject,...

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