Chipewyan ecology: group structure and caribou hunting system

Irimoto, Takashi

Book

Chipewyan ecology: group structure and caribou hunting system

National Museum of Ethnology • (8) • Published In 1981 • Pages: 1, 2, 12, 196 , plsyrd

By: Irimoto, Takashi.

Abstract
This is an ecological study of the Chipewyan people of the Wollaston Lake region of northern Saskatchewan, Canada. From an ecological point of view the author tries to show that '…human beings are neither purely cultural nor merely biological organisms, but that man and nature are mutually interrelated in terms of human activities' (p. 1). Irimoto then devotes the major portion of this source to a study of three major problems which he believes are significant factors in the substantiation of his hypothesis. The first of these is involved in an understanding of the social organization or group structure of the population under study (chapters 4 and 5), the second, with their subsistence activities (chapters 3, 6 and 7), and finally, and in a more theoretical context, an understanding of the author's analysis of the 'human activity systems approach' to the caribou hunting ecology of the Chipewyan people (chapter 8). After an examination of the above problems, Irimoto discusses changes and adjustments that have taken place in Chipewyan ecology in time, and how the population has adjusted to the changing environment, with special attention to their social organization and caribou hunting system (see chapter 9).

HRAF PubDate

2000

Region

North America