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Words of the Huron

Words of the Huron

Paperback

Series: Indigenous Studies

Native American HistoryIndigenous Languages of the Americas

ISBN10: 0889205167
ISBN13: 9780889205161
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: Feb 25 2007
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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 relationship between the French missionaries and settlers and the Huron people.

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