Anthropology

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Storied Dialogues: Exchanges of Meaning Between Storyteller and Anthropologist

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Blanca Chester
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 8, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 1996, pp. [13]-35
Description
Author uses several different texts to highlight some of the difficulties in cross-cultural communication. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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“Stranded in the Wasteland:” Literary Allusion in The Sharpest Sight

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carolyn Holbert
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 14, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 2002, pp. [1]-25
Description
Contends that the writer uses Western sources from Shakespeare through to Edward Lear, Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot and blends them with Native American literary traditions to create a truly mixedblood novel. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Strangers Among Us

Alternate Title
McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series ; 10
E-Books
Author/Creator
David C. Woodman
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Strategy As Lived: Mixed Communities in the Age of New Nations

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel H. Calhoun
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 181-202
Description
Article examines the different structures and ways of being expressed by bi-racial or multi-racial communities in 19th century North America, considers some of the mainstream/anglo responses to these peoples and communities.
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[Strong Hearts Native Lands Grassy Narrows Blockade]

Alternate Title
At the Edge of Canada: Indigenous Research
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Anna Willow
Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Description
Interview with the author of Strong Hearts, Native Lands: Anti-Clearcutting Activism at Grassy Narrows First Nation. Duration: 29:09.
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Structural Patterning in Kwakiutl Art and Ritual

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Abraham Rosman
Paula G. Rubel
Man, vol. 25, no. 4, December 1990, pp. 620-639
Description
Shows that the stylistic and representational contrasts in art correspond with the division of the Kwakiutl year based on notions of secular and sacred.
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Studies of North American Indian Languages

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marrianne Mithun
Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 19, 1990, pp. 309-330
Description
Contends that North American languages have some of the most complex phonological, morphological, and syntactic structures.
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The Study of Material Culture

Alternate Title
The Study of Material Culture: The Case of Southwest Textiles
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Suzanna Baizerman
Museum Anthropology, vol. 13, no. 2, May 1989, pp. 14-18
Description
Looks at the ethnic boundary art world by using publications on Southwest textiles, especially those done by the Navajo. In this way material culture in general can be studied.
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The Subarctic Indians and the Fur Trade 1680-1860

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
C. E. Heidenreich
BC Studies, no. 76, Winter, 1987, pp. 86-88
Description
Book review of: The Subarctic Indians and the Fur Trade 1680-1860 by J. C. Yerbury. Scroll down to page 86 to read review.
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Subarctic "Prehistory" in the Anthropological Imagination

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Donald H. Holly
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 39, no. 1-2, 2002, pp. 10-27
Description
Discusses two ideas that influenced Subarctic prehistory; that the Subarctic was not a center for social change and that the environment was excessively austere.
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Suicide in Siberian Aboriginal Groups

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Lester
Archives of Suicide Research, vol. 10, no. 2, April-June 2006, pp. 221-224
Description
Comments on very high suicide rates in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Supernatural Beings of the Huron and Wyandot

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
C. M. Barbeau
American Anthropologist, vol. 16, no. 2, New Series, April-June 1914, pp. 288-313
Description
Turn of the century anthropologist's description of two classes of deities and spirits.
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Survival Skills from the 1800s

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Patsy Cameron
Phyllis Pitchford
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 9, no. 4, December 1985, pp. 7-8
Description
Describes the diet and lifestyle of the inhabitants of the Furneaux Islands, located just north of Tasmania in the Bass Strait.
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