Book
Hunters in the barrens: the Naskapi on the edge of the White Man's world
Memorial University of Newfoundland • (12) • Published In 1973 • Pages: 11, 130
By: Henriksen, Georg.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study of the Davis Inlet Naskapi explores the discontinuities between their life in winter hunting camps and their summer life in a village dominated by a missionary and, to a lesser extent, a government storekeeper. He details the annual round, comparing hunting and social life in camps with the social life in the village where the economy is a mixture of fishing and welfare income. He argues that the traditional values focused on sharing of game, allowing good hunters to exchange products of the hunt for prestige and ensuring an equal distribution of food among the group. In contrast, the monetized economy has disrupted traditional patterns and values, leading to conflict and confusion. The author's analysis of interpersonal relations includes intragroup group relations as well as individual relations with the missionary and the storekeeper.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Hunting and trapping
- Community structure
- Cultural participation
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Sociocultural trends
- Missions
- Public welfare
- Annual cycle
- Travel
- Kin relationships
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnographer
- 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
- Eleanor C. Swanson ; 1977-1978
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- June 1966-June1967, December 1967-June 1968
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1973
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Davis Inlet, Newfound and Labrador province, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Georg Henriksen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-126)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74168527
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Innu Indians