the Chipewyan hunting unit
Canadian Athapaskan societies have proved difficult to analyze and classify because of the apparent lack of corporate features in the band. This apparent lack of band corporateness is in fact an accurate assessment of the ethnographic reality. Within Canadian Athapaskan society a restricted cognatic...
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crwiley:10.1525/ae.1977.4.2.02a00100 2023-12-03T10:21:09+01:00 the Chipewyan hunting unit SHARP, HENRY S. 1977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.1977.4.2.02a00100 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1525%2Fae.1977.4.2.02a00100 https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/ae.1977.4.2.02a00100 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor American Ethnologist volume 4, issue 2, page 377-393 ISSN 0094-0496 1548-1425 Anthropology journal-article 1977 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1977.4.2.02a00100 2023-11-09T13:48:24Z Canadian Athapaskan societies have proved difficult to analyze and classify because of the apparent lack of corporate features in the band. This apparent lack of band corporateness is in fact an accurate assessment of the ethnographic reality. Within Canadian Athapaskan society a restricted cognatic descent group, here called the hunting unit, exists that functions as a corporate group. The social boundaries of hunting units are not coextensive with those of the band, and what appear to be bands are simply residential aggregations of unallied hunting units. Article in Journal/Newspaper Chipewyan Wiley Online Library (via Crossref) American Ethnologist 4 2 377 393 |
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Canadian Athapaskan societies have proved difficult to analyze and classify because of the apparent lack of corporate features in the band. This apparent lack of band corporateness is in fact an accurate assessment of the ethnographic reality. Within Canadian Athapaskan society a restricted cognatic descent group, here called the hunting unit, exists that functions as a corporate group. The social boundaries of hunting units are not coextensive with those of the band, and what appear to be bands are simply residential aggregations of unallied hunting units. |
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