essay
Slavey
Handbook of North American Indians. Subarctic • 6 • Published In 1981 • Pages: 338-349
By: Asch, Michael.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This summary is largely a reconstruction of Slavey culture and society from early contact to assertion of government control early in the twentieth century. Topics covered include language, economic activities and the environment, clothing and material culture, social organization, the life cycle, religious life, and the effects of external contact.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Community structure
- Hunting and trapping
- Annual cycle
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Linguistic identification
- External relations
- External trade
- Missions
- Normal garb
- Work in skins
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Slavey
- 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.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2015
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1969-1970
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1789-1979
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southwestern Northwest Territories, northeastern British Colombia and northwestern Alberta, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michael I. Asch
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77017162
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Slavey Indians