essay
Cross-cousin marriage in the Lake Winnipeg area
Twenty-fifth anniversary studies • 1 • Published In 1935 • Pages: 95-110
By: Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In a paper read at the International Congress of Americanists in 1928, Hallowell pointed out '…that Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Algonkin kinship terms recorded in early documents reflected cross-cousin marriage so positively, that it seemed reasonable to infer that this form of mating had formerly been practiced ' (p.95)over a much wider area than had previously been thought . Based on information obtained by William Duncan Strong with the Barren Ground Band of the Naskapi in Labrador in which cross-cousin marriage was practiced and closely tied in with their kinship system, the author uses Strong's data as a basis for undertaking a comparative study of Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi terminology. He found it was possible to show that throughout this linguistic group there were not only consistent lexical indications of cross-cousin marriage, but also a striking equivalence between the terms used and those employed by the Ojibwa-Ottawa-Algonkin people.
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Western Woods Cree
- 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
- essay
- 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 ; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1930-1932
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1930-1932
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lake Winnipeg region, south central Manitoba, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- By A. Irving Hallowell
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 37014670
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cree Indians