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Some magico-religious concepts of the Algonquians on the east coast of James Bay
Themes in culture • Quezon City, Philippines • Published In 1971 • Pages: 31-39
By: Flannery, Regina.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source compares some of the religious beliefs and practices of the bands of the East Coast of James Bay (i.e., Rupert House, Eastmain, and Fort George) with those of neighboring Cree and Naskapi. The author compares her own field data for the East Coast groups with published data on other Algonquian groups, and the topics covered include the belief in a supreme deity, beliefs in spirits and souls, and the practice of divination. She concludes that the East coast groups share more beliefs with the Naskapi than with the Cree. The researcher will have to make his own decisions about the reliability of the data.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Spirits and gods
- Animism
- General character of religion
- Avoidance and taboo
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Innu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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.
- 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
- 1933-1944
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Labrador,Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Regina Flannery-Herzfeld
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77092114
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Innu Indians