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..
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1998
- Field Date
- 1930-1940
- Coverage Date
- 1930-1940
- Coverage Place
- Northern Ojibwa: Berens River area, Manitoba and northwestern Ontario, Canada
- Notes
- A. Irving Hallowell ; edited with preface and afterword by Jennifer S.H. Brown
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- LCCN
- 91033538
- LCSH
- Ojibwa Indians