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Some effects of the late nineteenth century modernization of the fur trade on the economy of the Slavey Indians
Western Canadian journal of anthropology • 6 (4) • Published In 1976 • Pages: 7-15
By: Asch, Michael.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article summarizes evidence indicating that the greatly increased involvement of the Slavey in the fur trade from 1870 to 1900 paper was not driven by innovations in technology or practices, but instead was mainly due to external changes in economic conditions that put them in a more advantageous position.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Hunting and trapping
- Annual cycle
- Fishing
- Animal by-products
- External trade
- External relations
- Environmental quality
- Production and supply
- Buying and selling
- Acculturation and culture contact
- 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
- article
- 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
- 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
- 1870-1950
- 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
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 14-15)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- cn 81039011
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Slavey Indians