Book
The Montagnais 'hunting territory' and the fur trade
American anthropologist • (78) • Published In 1954 • Pages: xii, 59
By: Leacock, Eleanor Burke.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document examines the theory that the aboriginal Montagnais-Naskapi of Labrador possessed family hunting territories, the almost exact bounds of which were known and recognized, with trespass on these territories being punishable. On the basis of field work among bands in southeastern Labrador where these territories are still in the process of formation and through research on historical documents, Leacock was able to show that these territories are in all probability not aboriginal, but are the result of the acculturative influence from the white traders' demand for fur, since trapping by single families is far more efficient than the original communal hunting pattern. There is no index. Leacock taught at the College of the City of New York.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Hunting and trapping
- Annual cycle
- External trade
- Community structure
- Diet
- Cultural participation
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Innu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- 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
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1958
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1950-1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1951
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Labrador Peninsula (Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador provinces), Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Eleanor Leacock
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 50-59)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Innu Indians