Anthropology
Discovering Differences: Maaori-White Relationships in New Zealand
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Te Kotahi Mahuta
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, Special Issue on International Year of Indigenous Peoples: Discovery and Human Rights, 1993, pp. 55-78
Description
Focuses on the Tainui people's efforts to seek redress for the confiscation of their lands in the mid 1860s.
Dogs of War: Potential Social Institutions of Conflict, Healing, and Death in a Fort Ancient Village
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert A. Cook
American Antiquity, vol. 77, no. 3, July 2012, pp. 498-523
Description
Interpreting ritual activity involving dogs and wolves coincided with increased warfare with Mississippians in the Middle Ohio Valley region.
Doing Treaty Land Entitlement Research in Saskatchewan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peggy Martin-McGuire
Practicing Anthropology, vol. 18, no. 4, Fall, 1996, pp. 29-32
Description
The author recounts her own personal experience working as a special advisor to the Office of the Treaty Commissioner to discuss contemporary treaty negotiations.
The Domino Effect: Culture Change and Environmental Change in Newfoundland, 1500-1100 cal BP
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Trevor Bell
M.A.P. Renouf
Northern Review, no. 28, Spring, 2008, pp. 72-94
Description
Suggests that warming sea temperatures impacted harp seal resources which in turn displaced the Dorset Paleoeskimos from the area.
The Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Program: Gathering the "Raw Material of History"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dianna Repp
Journal of the Southwest, vol. 47, no. 1, Oral History Remembered: Native Americans, Doris Duke, and the Young Anthropologists, Spring, 2005, pp. 11-28
Description
Provides overview of the program and goals which included documentation of the history of Native Americans in their own voices and from their own perspectives.
Dreams and Visions in Indigenous Lifeworlds: An Experiential Approach
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jean-Guy A. Goulet
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, 1993, pp. 171-198
Description
Argues that anthropologists may experience dreams and visions similar to those whom they study and that it is useful to incorporate such experiences into ethnographic descriptions.
Dress and Ornaments of the New England Indians
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charles C. Willoughby
American Anthropologist, vol. 7, no. 3, New Series, July 1905, pp. 499-508
Description
Historical overview of customs regarding clothing, tattooing, face painting, headdresses and general ornamentation.
Drug Addictions, Hallucinogens and Shamanism: The View from Anthropology
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tim Batchelder
Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, July 2001, p. 74
Description
Comparative study of some aspects of shamanic drug use for therapeutic mind-expansion and issues in modern drug addictions and dependencies.
Dwellings at the Source: Native American Architecture
Alternate Title
Indigenous Architecture Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Peter Nabokov
Description
Author speaks about the six determinants of form, Native societies and traditional dwellings. Uses examples from book produced in collaboration with architect Robert Easton.
Duration: 52:14.
Early 20th Century Photography of Australian Aboriginal Families: Illustration or Evidence?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nicolas Peterson
Visual Anthropology Review, vol. 21, no. 1-2, March 2005, pp. 11-26
Description
Argues that a set of postcard images provide evidence of attitudes toward and surrounding the Aboriginal family at the turn-of-the-century.
Early Anthropological Discourse on the Inuit and the Influence of Virchow on Boas
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rainer Baehre
Études/Inuit/Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, Franz Boas et les Inuit / Franz Boas and the Inuit, 2008, pp. 13-34
Description
Article focuses on the anthropological context of Rudolf Virchow's study of two Labrador Inuit families.
Early Thule Winter Houses: An Archaeoentomological Analysis
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frédéric Dussault
Allison Bain
Genevieve LeMoine
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 51, no. 1, 2014, pp. 101-117
Description
Studied the occurrence of human, dog, and bird lice. Through analysis of distribution of remains and Inughuit myths and legends, concludes that patterns are a result of delousing practices. Discusses the potential for studying Inuit hygiene.
Early Woodland Ritual Use of Caves in Eastern North America
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George M. Crothers
American Antiquity, vol. 77, no. 3, July 2012, pp. 524-541
Description
Author suggests that based on evidence, ritual cave use was associated with new social institutions being created and the beginnings of horticultural economics.
Earth, Animals, and Academics: Plateau Indian Communities, Culture, and the Walla Walla Council of 1855
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Clifford E. Trafzer
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, Special Issue on Encounter of Two Worlds: The Next Five Hundred Years, 1993, pp. 81-100
Description
Argues that historiography, too often, overlooks traditional beliefs and oral histories, especially those regarding the earth, plants, and animals which significantly influenced the course of Aboriginal history.
Eastern and Central Arrernte to English Dictionary
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Harold Koch
Myfany Turpin
Aboriginal History, vol. 21, 1997, pp. [233]-237
Description
Book review of: Eastern and Central Arrernte to English Dictionary compiled by John Henderson and Veronica Dobson.
Review located by scrolling to page 233.