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This volume examines glass manufacturing in Canada through individual company histories and includes a survey of pressed glass patterns in the National Museum of Man collections. Published in English.
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...
This volume contains fifteen Oowekyala Wakashan texts originally recorded at Rivers Inlet Village on the British Columbia coast with interlinear English translations and general comments on the language and culture. Published in English.
This introduction to the folk fiddling tradition of Prince George, British Columbia, offers a brief overview of the genre, biographical sketches of three of the region’s fiddlers, and fourteen melodies. Published in English.
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...
Multivariate statistical techniques are applied to the data for 24 discrete variables on projectile points from sites identified as Blackfoot, Crow, Shoshoni or Kutenai. It is concluded that ethnic affiliation has produced quantifiable variability that can be used to...
Once an integral feature of the culture and economy of the St. Francis Abenaki at Odanak, splint basketry has become an activity of the elderly. This volume examines the reasons for this change as indicated by alterations to basketry style and construction between 1880...
Archaeological investigation of the Bruner-Colasanti site, a one hectare, Early Late Woodland, late fall to early spring, encampment located in extreme southwestern Ontario which was occupied during the twelveth century A.D. The site offers a rare glimpse of the cold...
A historical and ethnographic study of the dynamic musical traditions of the Blood Indians of southwestern Alberta with particular emphasis on the influence and adaptation of Euro-American culture. Published in English.
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...
This work is a history of the Native people of Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories from the beginning of the fur trade on Great Slave Lake in 1786 to 1972. Aboriginal culture provides a base for the historic changes discussed.Published in English.
This paper describes the ethnographic context and analyses the structural characteristics of Bella Coola songs. Seventy-three original transcriptions which encompass a broad spectrum of Bella Coola ceremonial and non-ceremonial repertoires are included. Published in...
This volume constitutes a catalogue of one hundred and thirty-six aerophones from a wide range of cultures in the collections of the Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies. Published in English.
Based on fieldwork conducted in 1978 and 1979, this study deals with the living tradition of building inshore fishing boats. It attempts to describe the dynamics and functions of boat building within the context of the community’s social, economic and natural...
Prepared for the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association and the Canadian Ethnology Society, this is the third guide providing detailed information on 76 departments and 1,427 individual scholars for university departments of sociology, anthropology and...
A critical assessment of traditional approaches to life histories is juxtaposed against the presentation of stories related by an eighty-eight year old man living on the north shore of Lake Superior describing his experiences living and working in the bush. Published in...
This volume comprises a historical study of the Scottish urban elite of Quebec between 1780 and 1840 whose educational, religious, philanthropic, and economic institutions demonstrate a strong continuity with their homeland and resistance to cultural assimilation within...
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.Published in English.
This monograph examines the position of Inuit kinship and its associated behavioural concomitants as they effect the patterning of Inuit ecological relations. It demonstrates the role such features, functioning as one component within the cultural ecological system,...
This study examines the alteration and adaptation of Micmac male and female roles in Nova Scotia over a period of four hundred years in the context of the broader changes which their society experienced as it interacted with the dominant European culture.Published in...
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