Book

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..

Abstract

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.

HRAF PubDate

2019

Region

North America

Sub Region

Arctic and Subarctic

Document Type

Book

Evaluation

Creator Types

Ethnographer

Missionary

Document Rating

5: Excellent Primary Data

Analyst

Eleanor C. Swanson ; 1977-1978

Field Date

1942-1943, 1951-1953

Coverage Place

Lake Melville, Labrador, Canada

Notes

by John T. McGee

Thesis--Catholic University of America

Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-149)

LCCN

62051609

LCSH

Innu Indians