essay
Cross-cousin marriage in the Lake Winnipeg area
twenty-fifth anniversary studies • 1 • Published In 1935 • Pages: 95-110
By: Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving).
Abstract
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 infer that this form of mating had formerly been practiced ' (p.95)over a much wider area than had previously been thought . Based on information obtained by William Duncan Strong with the Barren Ground Band of the Naskapi in Labrador in which cross-cousin marriage was practiced and closely tied in with their kinship system, the author uses Strong's data as a basis for undertaking a comparative study of Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi terminology. He found it was possible to show that throughout this linguistic group there were not only consistent lexical indications of cross-cousin marriage, but also a striking equivalence between the terms used and those employed by the Ojibwa-Ottawa-Algonkin people.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2006
- Field Date
- 1930-1932
- Coverage Date
- 1930-1932
- Coverage Place
- Lake Winnipeg region, south central Manitoba, Canada
- Notes
- By A. Irving Hallowell
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 37014670
- LCSH
- Cree Indians