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Introducing the sororate to a northern Saskatchewan Chipewyan village
Ethnology • 14 • Published In 1975 • Pages: 71-82
By: Sharp, Henry S..
Abstract
Lacking evidence to the contrary, anthropologists have assumed that essentially all Chipewyan groups had the same kinship system. Recent studies have shown that this is not necessarily true. This source describes variations in kinship terminology between two Chipewyan groups, one, a settled population at Black Lake village near the eastern end of Lake Athabasca in northern Saskatchewan, and the other, an immigrant group from Brochet, who had settled among them. The differences in the kinship terminology between these groups are primarily semantic rather than phonetic; in other words the same term used by both groups had different meanings. This permitted members of the two groups to think they were talking about the same category even when there were not, and to have different ideas about the same structural category (p. 73).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1989-1991
- Field Date
- 1970-1973
- Coverage Date
- 1969-1970s
- Coverage Place
- Black Lake, northwestern Saskatchewan, Canada
- Notes
- [by] Henry Stephen Sharp
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 82)
- LCCN
- 64005713
- LCSH
- Chipewyan Indians