Cultural ecology; readings on the Canadian Indians and Eskimos
By: edited and with an introd. by Bruce Cox
Series: The Carleton library -- no. 65
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Human geography; Indians of North America; Anthropo-geography; Indiens de l'Amérique du Nord; Discours, essais, conférences; Géographie humaine
Description: Collection of essays on Canada's native peoples and their relationship to the various environmental settings: the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence area, the boreal forest, the grasslands, the Pacific, and the arctic and barren grounds.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 323-328.
Table of contents: title: Economic and ecological aspects of Iroquois culture / Frank G. speck; title: Subsistence of the Huron Indians / Elisabeth Tooker; title: Settlement as an aspect of Iroquoian adaptation at the time of contact / Bruce Trigger; title: The family hunting band as the basis of algonkian social organization / Frank G. speck; title: Land ownership and Chieftaincy among the Chippewayan and Caribou-eaters / John Cooper and J.M. Penard; title: The Montagnais-Naskapi Band / Eleanor Leacock; title: The significance of hunting territories today / Adrian Tanner; title: The ethno-ecology of the Waswanipi Cree: or how hunters can manage their resources / Harvey Feit; title: The Cree of Canada: some ecological and evolutionary considerations / Anthony D. Fisher; title: Variation and continuity in Kutchin Society / Richard Slobodin; title: The squatter on the resource frontier / Richard Bucksar; title: Rock, wood, water / William Laatsch; title: Comments on Plains Indian cultural development / James Downs; title: The Algonquian plains? / Anthony D. fisher; title: Development of the Pacific Northwest Plateau cultural area / David Sanger; title: Determinism in primitive society? / Julian Steward; title: The fish and their environment / American Friends Service committee; title: Models of southern Kwakiutl social organization / Daniela Weinberg; title: Chiefs and commoners: nature's balance and thegood life among the Nootka / Rosemary Ruddell; title: Environment, History and central Eskimo society / David Damas; title: Animals as capital: comparisons among northern nomadic herders and hunters / Robert Paine; title: The Chipewyan hunting group in a village context / J.G.E. Smith.