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Papers from the sixth annual congress, 1979 / editors, Marie-Franc̦oise Guédon, D.G. Hatt.

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Papers from the sixth annual congress, 1979 / editors, Marie-Franc̦oise Guédon, D.G. Hatt.
Author
Canadian Ethnology Society. Congress (6th : 1979)
Publication
Ottawa : National Museums of Canada, 1981.

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Additional Authors
  • Guédon, Marie Françoise
  • Hatt, D. G.
Description
viii, 265 p.; 28 cm.
Summary
Selected papers presented at the sixth annual conference of the Canadian Ethnology Society held at Banff, Alberta, February 21-25, 1979. Includes papers on native rights and language problems in a pluralistic society.
Series Statement
Paper / Canadian Ethnology Service ; no. 78
Uniform Title
Paper (Canadian Ethnology Service) ; no. 78.
Subject
  • Ethnology > Congresses
  • Indians of North America > Congresses
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings
Note
  • At head of title: Canadian Ethnology Society.
  • Abstracts in French and English.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Native rights in the new world: a glance at history -- Intergroup conflict and community solidarity: Sikhs and South Asian Fijians in Vancouver -- The politics of diagnosis -- Cultural barriers to the establishment of a native health center and the role of anthropologicl evaluation -- The semiotic in medical anthropology -- Obake nd Yurei: the analysis of Japanese ghosts -- Sainthood in christianity and Islam -- The effects of tourism on marginalized agrarian systems: West Indian perspectives -- The Iroquois wars and native firearms -- A quantitative method of estimating carving styles of the Niska and Gitksan -- The equation of copper -- Reading comprehension tests and interethnic communication -- Norms of interaction and topic: communicative strategies in the narratives of older children -- The problem of inference and the formulation of the sign -- The negotiation of ethnic boundaries in a formal speech event -- The unorthodox in anthropology: style, intuition and Sapir -- The view from Rattenburg-on-the Inn and the ethnography of intuition -- Explanation and individual lives: reconsideration of life writing in anthropology -- Individual awareness as expressed in life history -- Sapir's conception of drift as a cultural process.
OCLC
  • 9570578
  • SCSB-13124982
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