Words of the Huron / Aboriginal Studies Series / Wilfrid Laurier University Press ( Kinship / Jesuits / Wyandot / Wendat Indians / Social Life, Customs; etc)

Waterloo, Ontario: Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press ( WLU ), 2007, 1st Edition, First Printing , 2007. -----------( 1st printing of the First Edition ) softcover, a Near Fine example, looks new, pencil name, some small pencil marks on fore edge of text block, 260 pages, contents include: Introduction; The Wendat Language; Huron Nations; Clans and Phratries of the Huron; Huron Kinship; The Huron and their Relationship to the Environment; Material Cultures of the Huron; Huron Ceremonial Culture; Warfare; Medicine and Disease; The French and the Huron; Afterword; References; Index , ---"Words of the Huron is an investigation into 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"---, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)---. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine (see desciption). Illus. by Richard Zane Smith Cover Art . 6w x 9h Inches.