Book
Cajun country
University Press of Mississippi • Jackson, Miss. • Published In 1991 • Pages: xxiv, 256
By: Ancelet, Barry Jean, Edwards, Jay Dearborn, Pitre, Glen.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book provides a broad ethnographic survey of traditional Cajun culture, based on the five volume report entitled 'The Cajuns, Their History and Culture,' published in 1987. The work begins with an historical discussion of the founding and development of Acadia (now Nova Scotia), and of French Louisiana in the seventeenth century. This is followed by chapters describing other ethnic groups who mixed with the Acadian exiles and became Cajuns. An overview of traditional Acadian folklife is presented as background for further discussion on more specific and contemporary issues. Topics included in this work are: family, religion, folk-medicine, folk-law, architecture, foodways, music and musical instruments, games, and oral literary traditions. The conclusion synthesizes the material presented in the various chapters in the book, followed by a bibliographical essay listing the major works used in this study (pp. xviii-xxiv).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History and culture change
- Total culture
- Food preparation
- Diet
- Structures
- Settlement patterns
- Family
- Games
- Art
- Sickness
- Ritual
- Ecclesiastical organization
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Cajuns
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- Indigenous Person
- Geographer
- 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
- John Beierle, 1993
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- variable
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Louisiana, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Barry Jean Ancelet, Jay D. Edwards, and Glen Pitre ; with additional material by Carl Brasseaux, … [et al.]
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-249) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90028931
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cajuns