Publication Information The main body of the Publication Information page contains all the metadata that HRAF holds for that document.
Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Rushton, William Faulkner
Title:
The Cajuns: from Acadia to Louisiana
Published By: Original publisher
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. 1979. x, 342 p. ill.,
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By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
William Faulkner Rushton
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 1995. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Cajuns (NO12)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Life history materials (159);
External migration (167);
History and culture change (170);
Food quest (220);
Pastoral activities (233);
Food preparation (252);
Diet (262);
Leather, textiles, and fabrics (280);
Land use (311);
Structures (340);
Settlement patterns (361);
Art (530);
Spectacles (541);
External relations (648);
Peacemaking (728);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
William Rushton, a native Louisianian, presents an account
of Cajun history and culture from the establishment of their initial settlements in Nova
Scotia in the early seventeenth century to Louisiana in the 1970s. Although James Dorman
expresses some reservations about this book it contains data on cultural history, values
and mores, foods and food preparation, house types and architecture, weaving, music,
fishing, and other economic activities. The lengthy historical section of this work is
supplemented in the appendix by a detailed chronology of historical events affecting the
Acadian/Cajun population starting with the early sixteenth century in Europe and America up
to 1977.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
4
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
no12-004
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Monograph
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-342)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data
Unknown-4,5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
John Beierle, 1993
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
variable
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Louisiana, United States
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Cajuns
