Book
The Northern Ojibwa and the fur trade: an historical and ecological study
Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada • Toronto • Published In 1974 • Pages: xx, 379
By: Bishop, Charles A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Since first contact with Europeans some 350 years ago, the social and economic life of the Ojibwa Indians has been greatly transformed. This study, which focuses in large part on the Osnaburgh House village, '…examines in detail the successive eras of change and adaptation among the Northern Ojibwa through the extensive and critical use of achival materials. These were meshed with observations in the field to produce an ethno-historical account of change which is unique to Subarctic research to date [i.e., the 1960s]. The study demonstrates that Northern Ojibwa social organization has switched from a clan-totem system at contact to a flexible one today [1960s]. Social and economic changes in Ojibwa culture can be directly related to the fur trade, population movements, and ecological shifts. The historical eras of change were defined by the data in accordance with new and different modes of adaptation under particular contact and ecological conditions' (pp. v-vi).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Cultural goals
- Hunting and trapping
- Real property
- External trade
- Clans
- Community structure
- 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
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary 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
- 1965-1966, 1969
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- seventeenth century - 1967
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Northern Ojibwa: northern Ontario and eastern Manitoba, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Charles A. Bishop
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-370)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74005557
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ojibwa Indians