Book
The changing culture of the Snowdrift Chipewyan
National Museum of Canada • (209) • Published In 1965 • Pages: 14, 133
By: VanStone, James W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In contradiction to the general premise that culture change within the Mackenzie River Valley and Great Slave Lake region would tend to represent a relatively homogeneous universe of interacting forces, the author has qualified this generalization by reference to actual historical records of cultural contact in the area which show a variation of effects depending upon the intensity of the contacts (p. xiii). To study one particular aspect of this problem -- the effects of contact intensity -- VanStone chose as his sample the village of Snowdrift, which represents a homogeneous population, living in an isolated community with few outside contacts. As background information for his analysis the author presents data on the culture history of the Chipewyans, the annual cycle, government assistance programs, subsistence techniques, individual life cycle events, social structure and community life, the individual and his place in the culture, and religious institutions and concepts. The source concludes with a discussion of the effects of acculturation, limited as it is, on the various cultural elements as listed above.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Hunting and trapping
- Fishing
- Alcoholic beverages
- External trade
- Division of labor by gender
- Rest days and holidays
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Community councils
- Public welfare
- Medical care
- Burial practices and funerals
- General character of religion
- Missions
- Infant care
- Child care
- Techniques of socialization
- 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
- 1960-1961
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- eighteenth century - 1960s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- village of Snowdrift, south shore of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] James W. VanStone
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-119)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chipewyan Indians