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Status among the Montagnais-Naskapi of Labrador
Ethnohistory • 5 • Published In 1958 • Pages: 200-209
By: Leacock, Eleanor Burke.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is a brief discussion of the lack of importance of ascribed status among the Montagnais-Naskapi. In the loose social structure, the few status distinctions that are made are based only upon demonstrated achievement, and cease to exist when the ability from which they result ends. Leacock includes information from Le Jeune, the French missionary who described the Montagnais in 1633-1634, and concludes that in 300 years changes in personality and social structure have not been great.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Status, role, and prestige
- Classes
- Ethics
- Talent mobility
- Community structure
- Hunting and trapping
- Revelation and divination
- Kin relationships
- Ethos
- Missions
- History
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Martin Malone ; John Beierle ; 1978
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1950-1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1634-1951
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Labrador Peninsula (Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador provinces), Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Eleanor Burke Leacock
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-209)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 57043343
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Innu Indians