Notes on the material culture of the Island Lake Saulteaux.

Hallowell A. Irving. Notes on the material culture of the Island Lake Saulteaux.. In: Journal de la Société des Américanistes. Tome 30 n°1, 1938. pp. 129-140

The physical characteristics of the Indians of Labrador

Hallowell A. Irving. The physical characteristics of the Indians of Labrador. In: Journal de la Société des Américanistes. Tome 21 n°2, 1929. pp. 337-371

Ojibwa ontology, behavior, and world view

In this paper I have assembled evidence, chiefly from my own field work on a branch of the Northern Ojibwa, which supports the inference that in the metaphysics of being found among these Indians, the action of persons provides the major key to their world view. While in all cultures “persons” comprise one of the major classes of objects to which the self must become oriented, this category of being is by no means limited to human beings. (...) Although not formally abstracted and articulated philosophically, the nature of “persons” is the focal point of Ojibwa ontology and the key to the psychological unity and dynamics of their world outlook. This aspect of their metaphysics of being permeates the content of their cognitive processes: perceiving, remembering, imagining, conceiving, judging, and reasoning

Animals, animists and academics

Argues that scholars interested in animisms (understood as personalist cultures) might provide useful aid to scholars interested in ethology and animal cognition, especially by indicating and testing means by which animists claim to communicate across species boundaries