From 1930 to 1940, A. Irving Hallowell, a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, made repeated summer fieldwork visits to Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, and to the Ojibwe community at Berens River on the lake's east side. He traveled up the Berens River several times to other Ojibwe communities as well, under the guidance of William Berens, the treaty chief at Berens River from 1917 to 1947 and Hallowell's closest collaborator. Contributions to Ojibwe Studies presents twenty-eight of Hallowell's writings focusing on the Ojibwe people at Berens River.
This collection is the first time that the majority of Hallowell's otherwise widely dispersed essays about the Ojibwe have been gathered into a single volume, thus providing a focused, in-depth view of his contributions to our knowledge and understanding of a vital North American aboriginal people. This volume also contributes to the history of North American anthropology, since Hallowe
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Contributions to Ojibwe Studies is] a deeply interesting revelation of a world that readers, along with Hallowell, can walk into and only slowly come to see and experience as do these subsistence hunter-fisher and plant-harvester northern people." —A.B. Kehoe,
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American Review of Canadian StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
Series Editors' Introduction
Editors' Preface
Acknowledgments
Editorial History and Procedures
Prologue: On Being an Anthropologist
Part I. Approaching Ojibwe Culture and Material Life
Introduction
1. The Northern Ojibwa
2. Notes on the Northern Range of Zizania [wild rice] in Manitoba
3. Rocks and Stones
4. Notes on the Material Culture of the Island Lake Saulteaux
Part II. Marriage and Kinship
Introduction
5. Cross-Cousin Marriage in the Lake Winnipeg Area
6. The Incidence, Character, and Decline of Polygyny among the Lake Winnipeg Cree and Saulteaux
Part III. The Patterning of Experience in Time and Space
Introduction
7. Temporal Orientation in Western Civilization and in a Preliterate Society
8. Some Psychological Aspects of Measurement among the Saulteaux
9. The Size of Algonkian Hunting Territories: A Function of Ecological Adjustment
10. Cultural Factors in Spatial Orientation
Part IV. Stress and Anxiety, Fear and Aggression
Introduction
11. Psychic Stresses and Culture Patterns
12. Fear and Anxiety as Cultural and Individual Variables in a Primitive Society
13. Freudian Symbolism in the Dream of a Saulteaux Indian
14. Shabwán: A Dissocial Indian Girl
15. Aggression in Saulteaux Society
16. The Social Function of Anxiety in a Primitive Society
Part V. In Sickness and in Health
Introduction
17. Sin, Sex, and Sickness in Saulteaux Belief
18. Psychosexual Adjustment, Personality, and the Good Life in a Nonliterate Culture
19. Values, Acculturation, and Mental Health
Part VI. Religion, Dreams, and the Spiritual Life
Introduction
20. Some Empirical Aspects of Northern Saulteaux Religion
21. The Passing of the Midewiwin in the Lake Winnipeg Region
22. Spirits of the Dead in Saulteaux Life and Thought
23. The Role of Dreams in Ojibwa Culture
Part VI. Personality, the Self, and World View
Introduction
24. The Rorschach Method as an Aid in the Study of Personalities in Primitive Societies
25. Some Psychological Characteristics of the Northeastern Indians
26. The Ojibwa Self and its Behavioral Environment
27. Ojibwa Ontology, Behavior, and World View
Glossary of Ojibwe Words and Names Used by Hallowell
Source Acknowledgements
Index
