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Recent ethnographic research: Upper Churchill River drainage, Saskatchewan, Canada
Arctic • 32 (4) • Published In 1979 • Pages: 355-365
By: Jarvenpa, Robert.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document reviews recent developments in the Upper Churchill River drainage area of northwestern Saskatchewan. "These include an analysis of the spatial organization of trapping economics, and an examination of behavioral responses to current technological impact (particularly housing, imported food and machinery, and new roads) in a southern Chipewyan community. Although high-income trappers generally exploit the largest trapping areas at the greatest distances from a primary settlement, the increasing congregation of short-distance trappers near the village may be exacerbating ecological and economic instability associated with new consumer goods and pruchasing habits. Another direction of research involves analyis of economic and social interactions between Chipewyan and Cree communities that shed light upon processes in inter-tribal communication, symbiosis, enmity and identity management" (p. 355).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Hunting and trapping
- Diet
- Settlement patterns
- Production and supply
- Vehicles
- External 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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 ; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1975-1977
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- late nineteenth century - 1970s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Patuanak Chipewyans, Upper Churchill River area, Saskatchewan, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert Jarvenpa
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 365)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- gs 50000281
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chipewyan Indians