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Time-depth of the Western Woods Cree occupation of Northern Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewanarticle 1987 • Meyer, David (David A.)
Western Woods Cree • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
Ethnohistorical studies indicate that the Western Woods Crees, at the time of Euro-American contacts, occupied the Boreal Forest of northern and northwestern Ontario as well as of northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Since Selkirk pottery was made in ...Sauk and Foxesessay 1922 • Bushnell, David I. (David Ives)
Fox • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This extract from Bushnell's monograph contains slight information on Fox and Sauk houses and settlement patterns. Basically, it is a series of quotes from 19th century accounts by Marston, Long, Schoolcraft, and Morse....The Fox warsBook 1993 • Edmunds, R. David (Russell David) & Peyser, Joseph L.
Fox • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This monograph presents a detailed account of Fox history from the late pre-contact period through to the middle of the 18th century with particular emphasis on a description and analysis of the events surrounding the tribe's conflict with New France...Water as a disciplinary agent among the Crow and Blackfootarticle 1941 • McAllester, David P. (David Park)
Crow • North America > Plains and Plateau
In this article, the author suggests that the use of water as a disciplinary agent among the Crow from earliest childhood may be correlated with a high incidence of adult fears and anxieties related to water, including taboos on aquatic animals as fo...The peyote religion among the NavahoBook 1966 • Aberle, David F. (David Friend) et al.
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is an extremely thorough ethnographic source, concerned with the origins, development, and social functions of the peyote cult (Native American Church) among the Navajo. The author, who participated in the cult by eating peyote numerous times, a...Report on an economic study of small farming in JamaicaBook 1961 • Edwards, David T. (David Telfy)
Jamaicans • Middle America and the Caribbean > Caribbean
This document is the product a yearlong study of the economics of eighty-seven small farms from nine areas of the island. Surveys gathered data on physical and economic geography, farm labor and management, land tenure, farm capital, use of resources...The ethnic Muslims of Bosnia -- some basic socio-economic dataarticle 1972 • Dyker, David A.
Bosnian Muslims • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This document presents some brief socio-economic information on the ethnic Muslims of Bosnia based on statistical data obtained from census reports, biographical materials, etc. Specific data contained in this article relate to demography, language i...Political ideologies and political forms in the Eastern Rif of Morocco, 1890-1910article 1979 • Seddon, David
Berbers of Morocco • Africa > Northern Africa
This essay examines the relationship between political ideologies and political forms in a Moroccan pastoral tribe around the turn of the century. It shows that the conceptions of patrilineal descent and political segmentation along descent lines exp...Useful plants and drugs of Iran and IraqBook 1937 • Hooper, David & Field, Henry
Iran • Middle East > Middle East
This book contains a description of the economically useful plants of Iran and Iraq with both the Latin and the native names given. The specimens described are located in several collections, designated for each plant. The book also contains descript...Abafazi Bathonga Bafihlakalaessay 1991 • Webster, David
Tsonga • Africa > Southern Africa
This article is concerned with one ethnographic puzzle: why is it that among the Thonga of Southern Africa a vast majority of men actively spurn their ethnic heritage while a large number of their womenfolk actively embrace it. It argues that the ans...Tembe-Thonga kinshiparticle 1986 • Webster, David
Tsonga • Africa > Southern Africa
This article is concerned with the nature of Thonga kinship system since the advent of colonial powers in the region. It argues that prior to ca. 1750, the Thonga lived in small, scattered homesteads, practicing a mixed economy, based on the domestic...The effects of formal church affiliation and religiosity on fertility patterns of Mexican Americans in Austin, TexasBook 1986 • Alvírez, David
Chicanos • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
Through the use of quantitative analytical procedures, this source examines the effects of religiosity upon wanted family size, anticipated completed family size, months of exposure per live birth, and contraceptive efficiency among Mexican Americans...Changing Inner MongoliaBook 2000 • Sneath, David
Inner Mongolia • Asia > Central Asia
In this study, Sneath examines the impact of Chinese government policies on Inner Mongolian pastoral society. He looks at the pre-Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary collectivization and decollectivization periods, including the Great Leap Forward a...The land of the LamaBook 1929 • MacDonald, David
Tibetans • Asia > Central Asia
The author of this popularly written account of Tibetan culture was, for fifteen years, British Trade Agent in Tibet. During that time he became a friend of the Dalai Lama and a sympathetic observer of the culture of the people among whom he was livi...The place of the Khasi in the worldarticle 1938 • Roy, David
Khasi • Asia > South Asia
This document (written by a Khasi) deals mainly with Khasi individual's view of his kin and non-kin, the relationships and placement of these groups in reference to himself and the concepts of marriage which result from these beliefs. Classificatory-...The origin and growth of Amish tourismessay 1994 • Luthy, David
Amish • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
In their struggle to remain separate the Amish grew increasingly peculiar as the cultural gap between them and the larger society widened in the twentieth century. The growing peculiarity of Amish culture, as well as the expansion of travel, leisure,...Appendixessay 1994 • Luthy, David
Amish • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
Although the Amish are often portrayed as a people of stability, they are continually establishing new settlements to accommodate their growing population. Some of the new settlements thrive while others fail. Amish historian David Luthy charts the e...David Zeisberger's history of northern American IndiansBook 1910 • Zeisberger, David et al.
Delaware • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This paper by a Moravian missionary deals generally with the North American Indians, although most of the specific references are to the Delaware. The author describes the country of the Delaware and its flora and fauna, and gives accounts of their r...Tuscarora among the Iroquoisessay 1978 • Landy, David
Iroquois • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This article summarizes the cultural history of the Tuscarora from the early eighteenth to the mid twentieth century (ca. 1960s). Landy describes the underlying conditions in North Carolina and Virginia, the Tuscarora's original homeland, which led t...Culture summaryessay 1995 • Levinson, David & Beierle, John
Cajuns • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This is a culture summary of the Cajuns....Bibliographyessay 1984 • Damas, David
Alutiiq • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This is the bibliography for the Arctic volume of the Handbook of North American Indians. It includes citations from two articles that are included in this HRAF file, as well as many other citations....Chipewyan drift fences and shooting-blinds in the central Barren Groundsessay 1981 • Morrison, David
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This source is an archaeological survey of various stone game-drive features (e.g., shooting-blinds, drift fences, etc.) found along the Elk and upper Thelon Rivers in the eastern district of Mackenzie. Morrison relates these stone structures to simi...Culture summaryessay 1996 • Damas, David
Copper Inuit • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This is a culture summary of the Copper Inuit....Copper Eskimoessay 1984 • Damas, David
Copper Inuit • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This is a culture summary on the Copper Inuit of the Northwest Territories of Canada, encompassing data from the eighteenth century to the 1970s, including information from the author's field work. Damas discusses the territory occupied by the Copper...The Copper Eskimoessay 1972 • Damas, David
Copper Inuit • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This is an ethnographic description of pre-contact Copper Inuit life and it traces the development of their social organization and seasonal economic cycle up to the late 1960s (p. 4). Major topics discussed are culture history, geography, food resou...