Book
The incredible Eskimo: life among the barren land Eskimo
Hancock House • Surrey, B.c. • Published In 1986 • Pages:
By: De Coccola, Raymond, King, Paul, Houston, James.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work, written by the Corsican-born missionary and explorer Father Raymond De Coccola, depicts the attitudes and ways of life of the Krangmalit Eskimo (Copper Inuit) in the Canadian central Arctic during the period of 1937-1949. Although the material is frequently interspersed with data on Father De Coccola's personal role as a missionary and participant observer in the native culture of the region, the cultural data he provides on the Krangmalit is lucid in presentation covering a wide range of topics from weather and travel conditions in the area to infanticide, wife sharing, children's sex play, the food quest (hunting, fishing, sealing), birth, death, dances, and games. The study concludes with an account of a flu virus which turned into a virulent form of pneumonia which had a devastating effect on the native population who had never been exposed to it before.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Climate
- Hunting and trapping
- Marine hunting
- Fishing
- Travel
- Missions
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- 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 ; 1995
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1937-1949
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1937-1949
- 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
- by Raymond de Coccola and Paul King ; illustrations by James Houston
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87207090
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Copper Eskimos