Book
Chipewyan ecology: group structure and caribou hunting system
National Museum of Ethnology • (8) • Published In 1981 • Pages: 1, 2, 12, 196 , plsyrd
By: Irimoto, Takashi.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an ecological study of the Chipewyan people of the Wollaston Lake region of northern Saskatchewan, Canada. From an ecological point of view the author tries to show that '…human beings are neither purely cultural nor merely biological organisms, but that man and nature are mutually interrelated in terms of human activities' (p. 1). Irimoto then devotes the major portion of this source to a study of three major problems which he believes are significant factors in the substantiation of his hypothesis. The first of these is involved in an understanding of the social organization or group structure of the population under study (chapters 4 and 5), the second, with their subsistence activities (chapters 3, 6 and 7), and finally, and in a more theoretical context, an understanding of the author's analysis of the 'human activity systems approach' to the caribou hunting ecology of the Chipewyan people (chapter 8). After an examination of the above problems, Irimoto discusses changes and adjustments that have taken place in Chipewyan ecology in time, and how the population has adjusted to the changing environment, with special attention to their social organization and caribou hunting system (see chapter 9).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Sociocultural trends
- Food quest
- Hunting and trapping
- Family
- Kinship terminology
- Community structure
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chipewyans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1989-1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1975-1976
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1975
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Wollaston Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Takashi Irimoto
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-162)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chipewyan Indians/Indians of North America--Saskat