Lanterna Rally

Author: James W. VanStone

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Published: 1963

Total Pages: 254

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Field work among the Chipewyan Indians at Snowdrift, Northwest Territories arose out of a general interest on the part of the writer and some of his colleagues in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto in the problems of culture change in the area of the Mackenzie River Valley and Great Slave Lake. Although it was postulated that this region would turn out to be a relatively homogenous universe of interacting forces, this generalization was qualified by the realization that in the history of contact, different sections of the area would show a variation in effects -- Introduction.