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Socio-spatial organization and decision-making processes: observations from the Chipewyan
American anthropologist • 90 • Published In 1988 • Pages: 598-618
By: Jarvenpa, Robert, Brumbach, Hetty Jo.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is broadly concerned with spatial or locational principles governing hunter-gatherer society. Toward this end, the settlement-community hierarchy of the southern chipewyan Indians is interpreted as a framework for resolving the conflicting advantages and disadvantages of nucleation and dispersion, for regulating information flow, and for maintaining organizational flexibility and options in decision making. Recent ethnoarcheological research reveals a socio-spatial organization based on three recurring stages or phases: (1) concentrated summer band, (2) winter staging community, and (3) dispersed winter hunting encampment. Parallels with other Northeastern Athapaskan groups are noted, and the issue of cultural syncretism in socio-spatial forms is raised (p. 598).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Hunting and trapping
- Settlement patterns
- Commercial facilities
- External trade
- Retail marketing
- Travel
- Social relationships and groups
- Nuclear family
- Extended families
- 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
- 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
- 1979-1981
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- late nineteenth - early twentieth centuries
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Upper Churchill River area, Saskatchewan, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 614-618)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chipewyan Indians