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Field-work1 was conducted for several summer periods and one complete year (1954–5) among the northern Ojibwa at Pekangekum. Pekangekum is situated in north-western Ontario (52 degrees north latitude and 94 degrees west longitude), close to the Manitoba border and to the northern Ojibwa-Cree boundary. The major occupations of the people are fur trapping and subsistence hunting and fishing. The band is composed of treaty status Indians, numbering 382 persons in 1955, who communally own a small reservation of approximately 2,000 acres at the summer fishing centre.
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In the sense used by Fred Eggan, “Social Anthropology: Methods and Results”, in his edition of Social Anthropology of North American Tribes (2nd ed., Chicago, 1955), pp. 530–1, referring to the changes in the kinship structure of the Cree and Ojibwa after their movement out onto the edge of the plains where they found that their old social organization was inadequate.
A. I. Hallowell, “Cross-Cousin Marriage in the Lake Winnipeg Area” in D. S. Davidson (ed.), Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Studies (Philadelphia Anthropological Society), I (Philadelphia, 1937), pp. 95–110.
See, e.g., D. N. Majumdar, A Tribe in Transition (London, 1937), in which he analyses the changes in the Hos Tribe of the Chota Nagpur Plateau, India.
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Dunning, R.W. (1968). Some Implications of Economic Change in Northern Ojibwa Social Structure. In: Blishen, B.R., Jones, F.E., Naegele, K.D., Porter, J. (eds) Canadian Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81601-9_12
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