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Mistassini Hunting Groups And Hunting Territories, Edward S. Rogers

Anthropology ETDs

The present study is directed toward an analysis of hunting groups and hunting territories among the Mistassini Indians of south-central Quebec. It has three objectives. First, an attempt is made to isolate the factors responsible for limited variability in the size of hunting groups at the present time. The hypotheses developed through this analysis of Mistassini data were re-examined with reference to historical and ethnological materials pertaining to the Montagnais in general. Second, the development of hunting territories is traced from the time of contact, and the factors responsible for their formation determined. Finally, previous theories of the origin of …

Santa Ana Phonology, Irvine Davis

Anthropology ETDs

The seven Keresan-speaking Pueblos of north-central New Mexico with their present population of some 8,000 persons have long been in contact with Spanish and Anglo-American Cultures. Despite centuries of contact, the language of these Pueblos, like many other aspects of their culture, today remains comparatively intact and shows little evidence of soon dying out. Linguistically, however, Keresan continues to be little known, both as to its structure and its relationship to other languages.

Implications Of Pueblo Ruins As Plant Habitats, Richard A. Yarnell

Anthropology ETDs

It is a common observation that vegetation on sites of early human habitation is distinctive from that occurring normally in the vicinity. However, little has been done to determine whether these differences exist in patterns of distribution dependent upon human habitation. The identification of the species involved also presents the problem of determination of the reasons for these differences.

Walapai Culture-History, Robert Clark Euler

Anthropology ETDs

The Walapai Indians, an upland Arizona Yuman--speaking tribe, in historic times lived in northwestern Arizona. Their territory extended from the Colorado River on the North and West, to the Bill Williams Fork-Santa Maria River on the south, and the Cataract Creek drainage on the east. This same region, prehistorically, was occupied by the Cerbat Branch, a group included by archaeologists within the Patayan Root. Archaeologists, solely from surface surveys, have suggested a history of the Cerbat from about 700 to 1150 A.D. After that date no cultural data for the area were known until 1776, when the Franciscan Father Garces …

Letter From Arthur Weaner To Alfred L. Shoemaker, April 23, 1958, Arthur Weaner

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed letter from Arthur Weaner addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated April 23, 1958. Within, Weaner writes to inquire about terminology he uncovered in an 1890 sales bill referring to bees.

Bulletin Of The Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 19, No. 3, Massachusetts Archaeological Society

Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society

• Manufacture of Articles of Bone and Antler (Ernest E. Tyzzer)
• Goddard’s (Guy Mellgren and Ed Runge)
• The Housatonic Indians (Raymond H. Brown)
• Comments on the Mooring Hole Problem (Ripley P. Bullen)
• Some Stone Drilling Techniques (Douglas S. Byers)

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 9, No. 2, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Vincent R. Tortora, John F. Morman, Earl F. Robacker, Howard H. Brinton, John Cummings, Edna Eby Heller, Phil R. Jack, Andrew S. Berky

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Barracks
• The Courtship and Wedding Practices of the Old Order Amish
• Rufus A. Grider
• Knife, Fork and Spoon: A Collector's Problem
• Quaker Meeting-Houses
• The Bannister-back Chair
• Pies in Dutchland
• Amusements in Rural Homes Around the Big and Little Mahoning Creeks, 1870-1912
• About the Authors
• Buckskin or Sackcloth? A Glance at the Clothing Once Worn by the Schwenkfelders in Pennsylvania

Ua37/44 Tidbits Of Kentucky Folklore, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Tidbits of Kentucky Folklore, nos. 1201-1299:

• A Good Provider – 31
• A Healthier World - 27
• A Living Passing Institution – 129
• A Motel at Fidelity – 103
• A Museum Piece – 51
• A Whole New World – 87
• As Others See Us – 137
• Attending a Sale – 39
• Bells, Bells, Bells – 3
• Blood Kin – 107
• Boys’ Side – Girls’ Side – 71
• Bringing in the Sheaves – 119
• Calling Animals – 91
• Clothes & the Man – 117
• Cloud-Walking Country – 79
• Country & City – 9
• Dashing Through the Snow – 191
• Different Levels of …

1. Introduction, Robert L. Bloom, Basil L. Crapster, Harold L. Dunkelberger, Charles H. Glatfelter, Richard T. Mara, Norman E. Richardson, W. Richard Schubart

Section XXI: Meaning in the Social Sciences

Vastly increased research and a sounder technique in history in the nineteenth century had two influences on the social sciences. When an enthusiasm for the records of history was combined with the evolutionary perspective, it often resulted in the search for and the imposition of patterns of development on history in general or on the history of particular subject matters such as economics, politics, morals, or religion. Social scientists looked to history for explanations, in the hope of finding inevitable laws, stages of development, or the forces that moved human society. As historians worked out a critical method for their …

3. Darwinism And The Rise Of Social Science, Robert L. Bloom, Basil L. Crapster, Harold L. Dunkelberger, Charles H. Glatfelter, Richard T. Mara, Norman E. Richardson, W. Richard Schubart

Section XV: Biology and the Rise of the Social Sciences

The two areas of the social sciences which were more stimulated by Darwin's research were anthropology and sociology. The Frenchman, Auguste Comte (1798-1857), generally regarded as the father of sociology and the originator of that term, laid the groundwork for the immediate application of the law of evolution to the study of society. Comte's conception of sociology is derived from his philosophy of history. Sharing the Enlightenment belief in progress, Comte saw history evolving through three stages. The first was the theological stage, in which men supplied supernatural explanations for the natural and social phenomena. This was followed bu what …

Cherokee Values And World View, Robert K. Thomas

Robert K. Thomas

Cherokee Values and World View is one of Thomas’ earliest papers. Though unpublished, It has often been cited (Gearing, Gulick, Wax, et. al.). It introduces the value of ‘harmony’ which Gulick (Cherokees at the Crossroads, 1960), a few years later termed the ‘Harmony Ethic’ (see Wax, 1971, Indian Americans: Unity and Diversity, p118) citing Gulick via Thomas. Gulick’s notes are included at the end of this paper. The Harmony Ethic has since been referred to throughout American Indian Studies. Thomas. In later works, and to a lesser degree in this paper, refers to ‘harmony’ as something that …

America And Laos: Two Views Of Political Strategy And Technical Assistance, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

No abstract provided.

Trade Patterns In Northern Laos, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

Since the author has lived in Laos for less than a year, this paper is more a general survey than an analysis in depth. If anything, it should emphasize the large gaps existing in our knowledge of this area, from the point of view of economic, social and cultural anthropology. As is the case with countless other societies throughout the world, the people of Laos are going through a period of change. Culture change is, of course, an ever-present phenomenon, but few will doubt that its rate has increased greatly in recent years - as an outgrowth of closer contacts …

Bulletin Of The Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 19, No. 2, Massachusetts Archaeological Society

Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society

• The Paleo-Indian in the Northeast (William A. Ritchie)
• Archaeology of the Cochato River Valley Area (Wesley C. Cote)
• Arti-Facts and Fancies (South Shore Chapter)
• The Mooring Hole Problem in Long Island Sound (Bernard W. Powell)

The Burning Ship Of Northumberland Strait: Some Notes On That Apparition, Edward D. Ives

Dr. Edward D. Ives Papers

During the summer of 1957, I was on Prince Edward Island and while collecting data on an entirely different subject, I heard "The Burning Ship" mentioned several times, especially in the area known as the Lot Seven Shore (Cape Wolfe, Glengarry, Burton, and Campbellton). Being occupied with other matters, I did not make anything like a thorough investigation, but I did begin asking questions. Some months after my return to Maine, I wrote letters to the chief Island newspapers asking for information, and I received replies from some fifteen people, most of whom claimed to have seen this ship. This …

Northeast Folklore Volume 1 Numbers 1-4, Edward D. Ives, Richard M. Dorson, Miriam B. Webster, Bacil F. Kirtley, Alden A. Nowlan, Raymond Whitely, Frank A. Hoffmann

Northeast Folklore Monographs

The first ever issue of Northeast Folklore was published in the spring of 1958 under the editorship of Edward D. Ives (known as Sandy) and Bacil F. Kirtley through the Department of English at the University of Maine. The four editions that year were later bound into a single volume.

Table of Contents

Number 1 (Spring):

Mishaps of a Maine Lobsterman

Maine Winter Menus: A Study in Ingenuity

“Young Jimmy Foulger:” A Hitherto Unrecorded Ballad in the Northeast

John Ellis – Hunter, Guide, Legend

Number 2 (Summer):

Bibliography of New England-Maritimes Folklore

Selected Bibliography of New England-Maritimes Folklore Collections and …

Folklore Collected At Folk Festival (1958), Florence Baver

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed documentation of folklore collected at the Kutztown Folk Festival, Pennsylvania, in 1958. Florence Baver notes the home town and name of each informant as well as the topics ranging from folk remedies and animal lore to Pennsylvania Dutch sayings and rhymes.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 9, No. 1, William J. Murtagh, Don Yoder, John Butz Bowman, Charles E. Welch Jr., Alfred L. Shoemaker, Elizabeth Clarke Kieffer, Jane Keplinger Burris, Earl F. Robacker

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Half-Timbering in American Architecture
• The Strouse Dance
• Schuylkill Boatmen and Their Ways
• Some Early Phases of the Philadelphia Mummers' Parade
• Fantasticals
• Joseph Henry Dubbs as a Folklorist
• About the Authors
• Horse Companies in Montgomery County
• Books Not for Burning

Sibyl 1958, Otterbein University

Otterbein University Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Letter From Jim Butterfield And Ike Kaufman To Editors Of The Pennsylvania Dutchman, December 30, 1957, Jim Butterfield, Ike Kaufman

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed letter from Jim Butterfield and Ike Kaufman addressed to the editors of the Pennsylvania Dutchman, dated December 30, 1957. Within, Butterfield and Kaufman write to provide insight into the Wayne County Amish and the similarities they noticed with the Lancaster County Amish in terms of games and pastimes.

Letter From George L. Moore To Alfred L. Shoemaker, November 15, 1957, George L. Moore

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from George L. Moore addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated November 15, 1957. Within, Moore details lore related to Christmas Eve when young men wear masks and scare children, provides details on an old loom that will be going up for sale, and presents a Pennsylvania Dutch rhyme.

Bulletin Of The Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 19, No. 1, Massachusetts Archaeological Society

Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society

• A Review of Cape Code Archaeology (Ross Moffett)

The Pennsylvania Dutchman Vol. 8, No. 4, Earl F. Robacker, Joseph T. Kingston, Edna Eby Heller, Vincent R. Tortora, Evelyn Benson, Thomas R. Brendle, Claude Unger, Friedrich Krebs, Don Yoder

The Dutchman / The Pennsylvania Dutchman Magazine

● "Such Fancy Boxes, Yet"
● Dried Corn
● Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking is Corny
● The Amish at Play
● Colonial Button Mold
● Illness and Cure of Domestic Animals Among the Pennsylvania Dutch
● Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneers

Bulletin Of The Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 18, No. 4, Massachusetts Archaeological Society

Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society

• Prehistoric Hunters of Newfoundland-Labrador and their Relationship to New England Archaeology (Elmer Harp, Jr.)
• Ethnology of Northern New England and the Maritime Provinces (Ernest S. Dodge)
• Some Uses of Birch Bark in Northern New England (Eva L. Butler and Wendell S. Hadlock)
• Smoking Habits of the Wabanaki (Nicholas N. Smith)
• Patackosi (Adrian P. Whiting)
• Index – Volume 18

Breakfast In Hell, Thomas Macleod

Maine Song and Story Sampler

In the story heard here, the central character, when faced with a logjam early in the morning, claims he will break the jam or eat his breakfast in Hell and is subsequently killed when the jam breaks.

An Ethnological Study Of Tortugas, New Mexico, Alan James Oppenheimer

Anthropology ETDs

The village of Tortugas, New Mexico consists of an amalgam of Tiwa-Piro, Spanish-American, Anglo-American, and Mexican Indian cultural elements. These varied influences have been reformulated and unified into a meaningful and peculiarly individual pattern. For this reason the village presents an interesting laboratory for the study of cultural dynamics.

Tortugas was originally settled primarily by Tiwas. At present, however, Tortugas culture is very different from that of the other pueblos. Some cultural factors in history must be responsible for this divergence. An attempt has been made throughout to compare Tortugas culture with other Indian groups, especially Isleta and, where data …

Echo-Reactions In Arctic Hysteria And Latah, Helen Carpenter

Anthropology ETDs

The general problem of the present study is to discover why some forms of mental disorders occur more frequently in some societies than in others. The specific problem is to determine why echo-reactions as a form of mental disorder occur frequently in some groups in Siberia, adjacent regions, and Indonesia, but are rare or absent in other areas.

Letter From Helen J. Moser To Alfred L. Shoemaker, April 12, 1957, Helen Moser

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from Helen J. Moser addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated April 12, 1957. Within, Moser provides some Pennsylvania Dutch dialect stories about creameries as well as a rhyme and information about plants.

Letter From Charles R. Hepner To Alfred L. Shoemaker, April 8, 1957, Charles R. Hepner

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from Charles R. Hepner addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated April 8, 1957. Within, Hepner writes to corroborate a story he heard on Shoemaker's radio program about an amputated limb by relating his own experiences of phantom pain following an amputation and the method used to cure it.

Bulletin Of The Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 18, No. 3, Massachusetts Archaeological Society

Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society

• Ipswich B.C. (Douglas S. Byers)
• A “Crowned-54” Pipe Fragment from Alpine Landing, N.J. (Julius Lopez)
• Preliminary Report on the Lagoon Pond Site (E.G. Huntington)
• An Historical Basis for Vinland (E.G. Huntington)