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.
Steckley’s source material includes the first dictionary of any Aboriginal language, Recollect Brother Gabriel Sagard’s Huron phrasebook, published in 1632, and the sophisticated Jesuit missionary study of the language from the 1620s to the 1740s, beginning with the work of Father Jean de Brébeuf. The only book of its kind, Words of the Huron will spark discussion among scholars, students, and anyone interested in North American archaeology, Native studies, cultural anthropology, and seventeenth-century North American history.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-256) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 497/.555
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780889205161 9781554581351
- LCCN
- PM1366
- LCCN Item number
- S68 2007eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xvii, 259 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00221921 (OCoLC)753343629 (CaOOCEL)411210
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Jesuit Symbols and Their Function 8
- Introduction 10
- 1 The Wendat Language 20
- 2 Huron Nations 42
- 3 Clans and Phratries of the Huron 66
- 4 Huron Kinship 88
- 5 The Huron and Their Relationship to the Environment 132
- 6 Material Culture of the Huron 168
- 7 Huron Ceremonial Culture 204
- 8 Warfare 214
- 9 Medicine and Disease 232
- 10 The Jesuits and the Huron 252
- 11 After-Words 264
- References 270
- Index 276
- A 276
- B 276
- C 276
- D 276
- E 277
- F 277
- G 277
- H 277
- I 277
- J 277
- L 277
- M 277
- N 277
- O 277
- P 278
- R 278
- S 278
- T 278
- U 278
- W 278
