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'Give us a little milk': the social and cultural meanings of gift giving in the Lake Superior fur trade
Minnesota history • 48 (2) • Published In 1982 • Pages: 60-71
By: White, Bruce M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Among the Ojibwa gift giving was an important social act, whether in personal relationships, trade, or diplomacy. White notes that without participating in the process of gift giving, a foreigner, regardless of whether or not he was a trader or diplomat, could not hope to achieve his political or social needs (p. 71). This document explores the various ways in which gift giving functions in Ojibwa society.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Alcoholic beverages
- Recreational and non-therapeutic drugs
- Gift giving
- External trade
- Artificial kin relationships
- External relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ojibwa
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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.
- Historian
- 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; 1998
- 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
- 'traditional' to ca. 1850
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lake Superior region, United States and Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Bruce M. White
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 85652033
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ojibwa Indians