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Introducing the sororate to a northern Saskatchewan Chipewyan village
Ethnology • 14 • Published In 1975 • Pages: 71-82
By: Sharp, Henry S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Lacking evidence to the contrary, anthropologists have assumed that essentially all Chipewyan groups had the same kinship system. Recent studies have shown that this is not necessarily true. This source describes variations in kinship terminology between two Chipewyan groups, one, a settled population at Black Lake village near the eastern end of Lake Athabasca in northern Saskatchewan, and the other, an immigrant group from Brochet, who had settled among them. The differences in the kinship terminology between these groups are primarily semantic rather than phonetic; in other words the same term used by both groups had different meanings. This permitted members of the two groups to think they were talking about the same category even when there were not, and to have different ideas about the same structural category (p. 73).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural participation
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- Kinship regulation of sex
- Extramarital sex relations
- 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
- article
- 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
- 1970-1973
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1969-1970s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Black Lake, northwestern Saskatchewan, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Henry Stephen Sharp
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 82)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64005713
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chipewyan Indians