Tsimshian narratives: volume 2
Title | Tsimshian narratives: volume 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Marius Barbeau |
Publisher | University of Ottawa Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1987-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1772824267 |
These oral histories, collected by Marius Barbeau and William Beynon from the Pacific Northwest reflect the Tsimshian relationship with the environment, their understanding of the spiritual universe and their interpretation of the physical world.
Tsimshian Narratives - Vol. 1 Tricksters, Shamans and Heroes - Vol. 2 Trade and Warfare
Title | Tsimshian Narratives - Vol. 1 Tricksters, Shamans and Heroes - Vol. 2 Trade and Warfare PDF eBook |
Author | Canadian Museum of Civilization |
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Release | 1987 |
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Tsimshian Narratives: Trade and warfare
Title | Tsimshian Narratives: Trade and warfare PDF eBook |
Author | John J. Cove |
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Pages | 288 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
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This collection of oral narratives from the Tsimshian Indians of the west coast of British Columbia around Prince Rupert, is illustrated with early photographs and maps, and reflects the close relationship of these people with their environment.
TSIMSHIAN NARRATIVES.
Title | TSIMSHIAN NARRATIVES. PDF eBook |
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Release | 1987 |
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Perspectives on Northern Northwest Coast Prehistory
Title | Perspectives on Northern Northwest Coast Prehistory PDF eBook |
Author | Jerome S. Cybulski |
Publisher | University of Ottawa Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1772821543 |
Thirteen scientists provide insight into the archaeology of the north coast of British Columbia in celebration of fieldwork begun by George F. MacDonald for the National Museum of Canada in 1966. This book investigates paleoenvironmental influences on human settlement, theoretical concepts involved in northern Northwest Coast research, and the interplay of aboriginal oral traditions and archaeological findings.
Potlatch at Gitsegukla
Title | Potlatch at Gitsegukla PDF eBook |
Author | Marjorie M. Halpin |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2011-11-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0774842504 |
William Beynon was born in 1888 in Victoria to a Welsh father and a Tsimshian mother. He was an accomplished ethnographer and had a long career documenting the traditions of the Tsimshian, Nisga'a, and Gitksan. In 1945 he attended and actively participated in five days of potlatches and totem pole raisings at Gitksan village of Gitsegukla. There he compiled four notebooks containing detailed and often verbatim information about the events he witnessed. For over 50 years these notebooks have seen limited circulation among specialists, who have long recognized them as the most perceptive and complete account of potlatching ever recorded.
Ergativity in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algya̲x)
Title | Ergativity in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algya̲x) PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Gail Mulder |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1994-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780520097889 |
00 This work examines the morphological and syntactic dimensions of ergativity (i.e., an intransitive subject is treated in the same manner as a transitive object and differently from the transitive subject) in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algyax). This language is very highly morphologically ergative and the distribution of ergativity is conditioned by several different factors that are related through their coding of transitivity. Syntactically, the language is not highly ergative, but none of the cross-linguistic definitions of subject can account for the ergativity that does exist. This work examines the morphological and syntactic dimensions of ergativity (i.e., an intransitive subject is treated in the same manner as a transitive object and differently from the transitive subject) in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algyax). This language is very highly morphologically ergative and the distribution of ergativity is conditioned by several different factors that are related through their coding of transitivity. Syntactically, the language is not highly ergative, but none of the cross-linguistic definitions of subject can account for the ergativity that does exist.