Book
The trappers of Patuanak: toward a spatial ecology of modern hunters
National Museums of Canada • (67) • Published In 1980 • Pages: xv, 258
By: Jarvenpa, Robert.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this work the author develops an analytical framework dealing with the spatial arrangement of human populations as a fundamental form of ecological adaptation to the natural environment. Here the '…geographical mobility of commercial fur trappers and fishermen from the English River Chipewyan community of Patuanak, Saskatchewan is employed as a variable for explaining the organization of economic-subsistence cycles and ongoing processes of settlement system change' (p. iii). The author discusses various forms of social adaptation in the trapping work force which represents a complex system of adjustments from the traditional family-camp organization to that of the newly-evolving all-male trapping partnerships. Although in the overview current trapping activities still reflect the traditional use of the ecosystem highly valued in Chipewyan culture, the spatial organization of production represented in such activities are not in total conformity with Western ideas of economic 'rationality'. With this in mind Jarvenpa attempts '…to assess the longer-run adaptiveness of trapping culture in view of imminent industrial development: (p. iii). In addition to the detailed data on trapping and the trapping economy, there is also much useful information in this source on geography, flora, fauna, climate, the annual cycle of events, family income, and the diet.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Climate
- Topography and geology
- Fauna
- Flora
- Annual cycle
- Hunting and trapping
- Fishing
- Marine industries
- Diet
- Production and supply
- Income and demand
- Travel
- 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 ; 1990-1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1971-1979
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1715 - ca. 1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Patuanak, Saskatchewan , Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Robert Jarvenpa
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-195)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chipewyan Indians