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Autore: | Steckley John <1949-> |
Titolo: | Words of the Huron / / John L. Steckley |
Pubblicazione: | Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2007 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
Disciplina: | 497 |
497.555 | |
497/.555 | |
Soggetto topico: | Wyandot Indians - Languages - History - 17th century |
Wyandot Indians - Intellectual life - 17th century | |
Wyandot Indians - Social life and customs - 17th century | |
Wyandot Indians - Material culture - History - 17th century | |
Names, Wyandot - History - 17th century | |
Wyandot language - History | |
Wyandot Indians - Religion | |
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 |
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