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Cultural stability and change among the Montagnais Indians of the Lake Melville region of Labrador
Catholic University of America Press • Washington, D.c. • Published In 1961 • Pages: 8, 159 , 7 plates
By: McGee, John T..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study is largely an ethnographic description of the yearly round and life cycle events among the Lake Melville Montagnais. The author's interest in stability and change in Montagnais culture is focused on material culture rather than the behavioral repertoire. He concludes that three factors have been important in change and stability. First, the Montagnais adopt or reject items according to their usefulness in their hunting, gathering, and fishing economy. Second, their adherence to Catholicism has limited their contact with the dominant Euro-American Protestant population. Third, recently opened schools will play an unknown part in changing the Montagnais. Discussion of the last two points is quite weak and impressionistic.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Sociocultural trends
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Annual cycle
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Hunting and trapping
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnographer
- Missionary
- 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
- 1942-1943, 1951-1953
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lake Melville, Labrador, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- by John T. McGee
- Thesis--Catholic University of America
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-149)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 62051609
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Innu Indians