Book
The Ojibwa of Berens River, Manitoba: ethnography into history
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers • Fort Worth • Published In 1991 • Pages: xx, 128
By: Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), Brown, Jennifer S. H., 1940.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study is divided into two major parts. Part 1 blends ethnohistorical, ecological, ethnographic, and sociopolitical analysis into a comprehensive historical treatment of the Berens River Ojibwa from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. Part 2 continues with the ecological adaptation of the Ojibwa and moves into the topics of residential groups, kinship, and marriage. This section also contains information on how the Ojibwa conceive of the place of humans in the universe -- their world view. The last portion of part 2 discusses the function of religion, moral conduct, and personality …'in a 'culturally constituted world' in which dreams as sources of power, of teaching, and of moral order are central processes' (p. ix). The appendix to this document presents a discussion of dwellings and household along the Berens River as observed by the author in 1935-1936. Much of the ethnographic data presented in part 2 is largely relevant to the period of the 1930s to 1940 when Hallowell did his major fieldwork.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Location
- Internal migration
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Dwellings
- External trade
- Community structure
- Revelation and divination
- Missions
- 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.
- 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
- 1930-1940
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1930-1940
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Northern Ojibwa: Berens River area, Manitoba and northwestern Ontario, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- A. Irving Hallowell ; edited with preface and afterword by Jennifer S.H. Brown
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 91033538
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ojibwa Indians