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Kinship and the drum dance in a northern Dene community / Michael Asch.
- Title
- Kinship and the drum dance in a northern Dene community / Michael Asch.
- Author
- Asch, Michael
- Publication
- [Edmonton] : Boreal Institute for Northern Studies, c1988.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | E99.T56 A83 1988 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 113 p. : ill., 3 maps, music; 23 cm.
- Summary
- An examination of an approach to the analysis of musical sound using the Slavey Drum Dance, as practised at Wrigley, Northwest Territories, by the Dene community. Based on fieldwork in 1969-1970 and reported in the author's doctoral dissertation.
- Series Statement
- Circumpolar research series ; [no. 1]
- Uniform Title
- Circumpolar research series ; [no. 1].
- Subject
- Note
- Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D., 1972).
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 109-113.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A geographic and historical description of the Pe Ts̓h́ Kí Region -- Economic life -- Social structure and organization -- Kinds of music and instruments in Pe Ts̓h́ Kí -- The social organization of the drum dance -- The music of the Dene drum dance -- On the meaning of the drum dance -- A perspective from 1988 -- Transcription of a song.
- ISBN
- 0919058736 (bound)
- 0919058744 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- cn^88008288^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library