Book
The effects of White contact upon Blackfoot culture
University of Washington Press • (6) • Published In 1973 • Pages: vi, 73
By: Lewis, Oscar.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the acculturative effects of the American and Canadian fur trade on Blackfoot institutions (economy, social organization, marriage, religion and warfare) over a period of more than 100 years (1730-1860), based on the author's analysis of various historical documents. In the light of the significance of the fur trade, Lewis also re-examines the importance of the horse (and to a lesser degree, the gun) as agents of culture change. The appendix also contains a summary of important events relevant to the relationship of the Canadian and American governments to the Blackfoot in pre-reservation days, which should be of much interest to the cultural-historian.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- External trade
- External relations
- Instigation of war
- Warfare
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Blackfoot
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Plains and Plateau
- 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.
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1982
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1730-1860
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern Montana, United States; southern Alberta, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Oscar Lewis
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-73)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Siksika Indians