12 research outputs found
Traditional Musical Culture at the Native Canadian Centre in Toronto
Get PDFWendy Wickwire parle de la renaissance d e la musique traditionnelle Indien ne parmi les Ojibwa au Centre Canadien Indigène à Toronto. Un groupe de percussionnistes a développé un répertoire de chants en rapport avec différ en te s danses traditionnelles et ce groupe est d e venu le centre de nombreuses activités sociales à cet endroit
Nora MARKS DAUENHAUER & Richard DAUENHAUER (eds.), Haa Tuwunaagu Yis, for Healing our Spirit, Tlingit Oratory (Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1990, xxxv + 569 p., ISBN 0-295-96849-4)
No full textIndian Story and Song from North America. By Alice Fletcher. (1900; rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. Pp. xxvii + 126, new introduction by Helen Myers, 16 p., bibliography, musical transcriptions with piano arrangements, $6.95 US, ISBN 0-8032-6888-2 pbk.)
No full textSliammon Life, Sliammon Lands. By Dorothy Kennedy and Randy Bouchard (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1983. Pp. 176, photographs, maps, appendices, bibliog., index, $14.95 paper)
No full textJulie CRUIKSHANK in collaboration with Angela SIDNEY, Kitty SMITH and Annie NED, Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Elders (University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, B. C., ISBN 0-7748-0357-6)
No full textThe Contribution of a Colonial Ethnographer: Charles Hill-Tout, 1858-1944
No full textCet article étudie l'oeuvre de l'un des premiers ethnographes canadiens, publiée récemment dans un ouvrage en quatre volumes édité par Ralph Maud, The Salish People: The Local Contribution of Charles Hill-Tout. L'orientation des recherches de Hill-Tout et leur mise en question par quelques scientifiques de renom, notamment Boas, fait ici l'objet de la discussion. La comparaison avec les travaux d'autres chercheurs de son époque, tel que lames Teit, met en perspective la contribution de Hill-Tout
George BIRD GRINNELL, Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales, (Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1990 [1889])
No full textWhy Chinese international students gamble: behavioral decision making and its impact on identity construction
Get PDFThis article explores the decision making processes involved when Chinese international students' (CIS) decide whether or not to gamble, as well as the impact that such behavior have on the construction of their identities in a new sociocultural environment. Two waves of narrative interviews were conducted with 15 CIS who self-reported as having gambling problems at the time of interview, or at some stage in their lives but had since recovered. The findings revealed that pre-existing beliefs and experiences, and various cultural schemas were closely linked to the participants' decision making processes. The findings also showed that the participants' sense of self-worth and self-respect became compromised as a result of their problematic gambling. The participants assigned to themselves extremely negative self-images, for example, 'unfilial', 'unworthy', 'worthless', 'prisoner', 'a burden', 'hopeless' and so on, that dominated their whole sense of self
