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The role of conjuring in Saulteaux societybook chapter 1942 • Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving)
Ojibwa • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This book deals very thoroughly with conjuring as found among the Saulteaux of Berens River, Manitoba, Canada. The activities of the conjurer in revelation, in causing and curing disease, in avoiding malevolent spirits, in increasing the food supply ...Culture and experiencebook chapter 1955 • Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving)
Ojibwa • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This volume consists of a collection of articles on the Ojibwa which have been previously published in various journals by Dr. Hallowell, an outstanding expert on this group. The selections from the book which have been processed for the file deal wi...Supplementary bibliography of works by A. Irving Hallowellessay 1976 • Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving)
Ojibwa • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This article is a supplementary bibliography updating Hallowell's previous bibliography provided in the author's publication 'Culture and Experience' (1955, pp. 430-434). A bibliography of Hallowell's writings through 1965 appears in M. E. Spiro, ed....Northern Ojibwa ecological adaptation and social organizationessay 1976 • Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving)
Ojibwa • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This article, written about the Berens River Ojibwa, summarizes some of the more salient features of their ethnography relevant to their ecological adaptation, winter hunting and summer fishing groups, kinship, and social organization. Much of the ma...Ojibwa ontology, behavior, and world viewessay 1976 • Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving)
Ojibwa • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
In this article Hallowell explores the Ojibwa's metaphysical concepts related to the nature and relations of beings (both human and supernatural). The author discusses these concepts in terms of the relationship of Ojibwa to one another, to the categ...Ojibwa world view and diseaseessay 1976 • Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving)
Ojibwa • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
In this article Hallowell discusses the relationship among Ojibwa cognition, etiology, and values. He criticizes the natural/supernatural dichotomy when applied to the Ojibwa world view. The Ojibwa, he argues, do not see the world so divided, but reg...The role of dreams in Ojibwa cultureessay 1976 • Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving)
Ojibwa • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
In this article Hallowell discusses Ojibwa worldview (see also document no. 77) and dreaming. The Ojibwa believe that a good life, free from hunger, disease, and misfortune is dependent on the blessing of powerful 'other-than-human' persons. Ojibwa m...Cross-cousin marriage in the Lake Winnipeg areaessay 1935 • Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving)
Western Woods Cree • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
In a paper read at the International Congress of Americanists in 1928, Hallowell pointed out '…that Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Algonkin kinship terms recorded in early documents reflected cross-cousin marriage so positively, that it seemed reasonable to inf...Kinship terms and cross-cousin marriage of the Montagnais-Naskapi and the Creearticle 1932 • Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving)
Innu • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This study is a listing and reconstruction of Cree and Montagnais-Naskapi kin terminologies. Hallowell summarizes all of the evidence for cross-cousin marriage which may be inferred from the linguistic data available in both published and unpublished...The Ojibwa of Berens River, ManitobaBook 1991 • Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving) & Brown, Jennifer S. H.
Ojibwa • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This study is divided into two major parts. Part 1 blends ethnohistorical, ecological, ethnographic, and sociopolitical analysis into a comprehensive historical treatment of the Berens River Ojibwa from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. P...