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The Woman and the child among the Lac-St-Jean Montagnais
Primitive man • 17 (1 & 2) • Published In 1944 • Pages: 1-18
By: Burgesse, J. Allan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document deals mainly with the status of women, and child training among the Lac-St-Jean Montagnais. In theory, the woman is regarded as being inferior to the male, but in practice she has full equality. Much inforamtion is given on the sexual division of labor in explanations as well as information on family life, religion, political status and economic life. In the section on child training, much incidental information is given on children's status, the ethno-sciences, medical practices and the effects of the Catholic religion on aboriginal life. The author was a Hudson's Bay Company factor and had spent several years among the Montagnais.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Gender status
- Community councils
- Social relationships and groups
- Family relationships
- Arranging a marriage
- Termination of marriage
- Techniques of socialization
- Division of labor by gender
- Sodalities
- Social control
- Ethics
- Acculturation and culture contact
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Businessperson
- 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
- 1932-1944
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1930-1944
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lac Saint-Jean, Quebec, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- J. Allan Burgesse
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 99111903
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Innu Indians