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Woman the hunteressay 1997 • Brumbach, Hetty Jo & Jarvenpa, Robert
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
Based on interviews, direct observations, and the interpretation of the archaeological record, this study presents an in-depth analysis of women as hunters in Chipewyan society. Contrary to the assumption "…that women in prehistory were 'immobilized'...Ethnoarchaeology of subsistence space and genderarticle 1997 • Brumbach, Hetty Jo & Jarvenpa, Robert
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This article discusses "…the relationship between a fundamental aspect of social life -- the cultural construction of gender -- and the spatial organization of hunting" (p. 414). Data for the study were gathered from a southern Chipewyan group, the P...An ethnoarchaeological approach to Chipewyan adaptations in the late fur trade periodarticle 1982 • Brumbach, Hetty Jo et al.
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This document presents a research strategy for investigating the processes by which Chipewyan, Cree, Métis, and European populations have adapted to the natural environment, the Euro-Canadian fur trade economy, and to each other as both competing and...Ethnoarchaeology and genderarticle 1995 • Jarvenpa, Robert & Brumbach, Hetty Jo
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
In this essay Jaravenpa and Brumbach examine the role of gender in structuring subsistence activities among the Patuanak and Knee Lake Chipewyans of the Upper Churchill River area of Saskatchewan. Although both men's and women's activities are discus...The microeconomics of southern Chipewyan fur trade historyessay 1984 • Jarvenpa, Robert & Brumbach, Hetty Jo
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This is a study of the rapidly changing material adaptations of the Chipewyan Indians in the late fur trade economy of north central Canada during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In essence, this work combines archival materials (e.g., ...Socio-spatial organization and decision-making processesarticle 1988 • Jarvenpa, Robert & Brumbach, Hetty Jo
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This article is broadly concerned with spatial or locational principles governing hunter-gatherer society. Toward this end, the settlement-community hierarchy of the southern chipewyan Indians is interpreted as a framework for resolving the conflicti...