Words of the Huron
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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.
John L. Steckley
John L. Steckley has taught at Humber College since 1983 in the areas of Aboriginal languages, culture, and history. His twelve published books include textbooks in sociology, physical anthropology, and Aboriginal studies, as well as White Lies about the Inuit (2007) and Gabriel Sagard's Dictionary of Huron 2009. In 1999, he was adopted into the Wyandot tribe of Kansas.
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