Words of the Huron [[electronic resource] /] / John L. Steckley
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| Autore: |
Steckley John <1949->
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| Titolo: |
Words of the Huron [[electronic resource] /] / John L. Steckley
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| Pubblicazione: | Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 497 |
| 497.555 | |
| 497/.555 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Hurons - Religion |
| Huron (Langue) - Histoire | |
| Noms hurons - Histoire - 17e siecle | |
| Hurons - Culture materielle - Histoire - 17e siecle | |
| Hurons - Moeurs et coutumes - 17e siecle | |
| Hurons - Vie intellectuelle - 17e siecle | |
| Hurons - Langues - Histoire - 17e siecle | |
| Wyandot Indians - Religion | |
| Wyandot language - History | |
| Names, Wyandot - History - 17th century | |
| Wyandot Indians - Material culture - History - 17th century | |
| Wyandot Indians - Social life and customs - 17th century | |
| Wyandot Indians - Intellectual life - 17th century | |
| Wyandot Indians - Languages - History - 17th century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-256) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Jesuit Symbols and Their Function; Introduction; 1 The Wendat Language; 2 Huron Nations; 3 Clans and Phratries of the Huron; 4 Huron Kinship; 5 The Huron and Their Relationship to the Environment; 6 Material Culture of the Huron; 7 Huron Ceremonial Culture; 8 Warfare; 9 Medicine and Disease; 10 The Jesuits and the Huron; 11 After-Words; References; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Words of the Huron is an investigation into seventeenth-century Huron culture through a kind of linguistic archaeology of a language that died midway through the twentieth century. John L. Steckley explores a range of topics, including: the construction of longhouses and wooden armour; the use of words for trees in village names; the social anthropological standards of kinship terms and clans; Huron conceptualizing of European-borne disease; the spirit realm of orenda; Huron nations and kinship groups; relationship to the environment; material culture; and the relation |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Words of the Huron |
| ISBN: | 1-299-31333-7 |
| 1-55458-135-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910154702603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Aboriginal studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)