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The trappers of PatuanakBook 1980 • Jarvenpa, Robert
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
In this work the author develops an analytical framework dealing with the spatial arrangement of human populations as a fundamental form of ecological adaptation to the natural environment. Here the '…geographical mobility of commercial fur trappers ...Surviving marriage and marriage as survival in Chipewyan societyessay 1999 • Jarvenpa, Robert
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
The major focus of this paper is on the institution of marriage which "…serves as a fundamental form of economic and social insurance for couples and their offspring and, indeed, for wider networks of relatives linked by the union" (p. 106). Jarvenpa...The ubiquitous bushmanessay 1977 • Jarvenpa, Robert
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This article discusses the nature of Chipewyan-white trader relationships during the 1930s, with particular emphasis on local Indian interpretations of events. During the early 1930s and early 1940s, at the time of the Great Depression, the subarctic...Subarctic Indian trappers and band societyarticle 1977 • Jarvenpa, Robert
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
The spatial organization of economic production in contemporary subarctic Indian society is illustrated by an analysis of geographical mobility and commercial fur trapping among the English River Chipewyan of Patuanak, Saskatchewan. Quantitative comp...Recent ethnographic researcharticle 1979 • Jarvenpa, Robert
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This document reviews recent developments in the Upper Churchill River drainage area of northwestern Saskatchewan. "These include an analysis of the spatial organization of trapping economics, and an examination of behavioral responses to current tec...Symbolism and inter-ethnic relations among hunter-gatherersarticle 1982 • Jarvenpa, Robert
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This is a study of the oral literature of the Patuanak Chipewyans obtained from the narrations of middle-aged and elderly males in the context of evening entertainment in trapping, hunting, and fishing camps. " Fundamental to the structure of these t...The development of pilgrimage in an inter-cultural frontierbook chapter 1990 • Jarvenpa, Robert
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
The Patuanak pilgrimage, one among many annual festivals observed in the Upper Churchill River communities, serves the function of integrating people from an extensive region. Taking as an example the annual pilgrimage to the grave site of the Oblate...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...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...