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The Copper Eskimo
Hunters and gatherers today: a socioeconomic study of eleven such cultures in the twentieth century • New York • Published In 1972 • Pages: 3-50
By: Damas, David.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an ethnographic description of pre-contact Copper Inuit life and it traces the development of their social organization and seasonal economic cycle up to the late 1960s (p. 4). Major topics discussed are culture history, geography, food resources in the natural environment, the food quest, the economy, material culture, social organization, settlement patterns, kinship, religious beliefs, the life cycle, and social change.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Annual cycle
- Hunting and trapping
- Marine hunting
- Fishing
- Settlement patterns
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Copper Inuit
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- 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
- essay
- 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
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Sept. 1962-Sept. 1963 (p. 45)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- pre-contact-late 1960s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Northwest Territories, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- David Damas
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-49)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 70179547
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Copper Eskimos