Ian Whitaker
Biographic Data
| ID | 106365 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Whitaker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitaker |
| SIGNATURE | WHITAKER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mummifield Greenland Exkimos - The mummies from Qilakitsoq: Eskimos in the 15th century. J. P. Hart Hansen and H. C. Gulløv 1989. Meddelelser om Grønland: Man and Society 12
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Health and the late mediaeval population of Greenland
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Core Values among Newfoundland Fishermen in the 1960s
In this article the core values of fishermen on the South Coast of Newfoundland in the 1960's are compared with those of a farming/fishing population from the Blasket Islands off western Ireland from a generation earlier in time. The data from which the values are derived consists partly of autobiographical materials, but mainly was obtained through projective narrative tests based on those developed by Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck (1961). The author…
North Atlantic sea-creatures in the King's Mirror (Konungs Skuggsjá)
The 12th century Norwegian text Konungs Skuggsjá ( King's Mirror ), a didactic work prepared by one or several authors, probably for the education of a king's sons, provides some of the earliest known descriptions of sea-creatures (legendary and real) inhabiting northern Atlantic waters. Most of the descriptions give sufficient detail to allow identification with species common in the area today. This article (the second of two articles on Konung…
The King's Mirror [Konung's Skuggsjá] and northern research
The old Norwegian text known as Konungs skuggsjá (The King's Mirror) , hereafter abbreviated KS, is I believe the most significant early European vernacular document for northern research. This opinion was explicitly stated by Nansen, (1911, 2: 242)
Core Values among the Blasket Islanders
The Blasket Islands off the coast of south-west Ireland were the home of the most westerly Europeans, until the last inhabitants were evacuated in 1953. They were essentially fishermen, but also pursued limited farming, increasingly supplemented by transfer payments from the Irish state, and by the remittances of those islanders who had emigrated in expanding numbers to the United States. The Blasket people maintained a rich oral tradition that p…
Whaling in classical Iceland
Sagas, law texts, court and ecclesiastical manuscripts, the King's Mirror , and later texts of the 17th and 18th centuries provide information on whaling activities in Iceland during the classical period (up to 1300) and later. Most references concern whales washed or driven ashore, rather than hunted in the open sea. Beached whales were clearly regarded as valuable food resources, generating disputes, litigation and other social conflict among t…
The reindeer in the prehistoric art of Siberia
The relatively naturalistic representation of animals of thecervidaefamily has long been recognized as dominating much of the prehistoric art of Siberia. These animals are found in the petroglyphs which date from the Neolithic, but are, perhaps, better known in the bronze items that have been so much sought after in the last 1OO years. I t is my purpose here to examine these artistic products in an attempt to identify the species of animals the a…
Settler and nomad in northern Torne Lapmark
It is one of the quirks of Arctic studies that although the society and culture of the nomadic Lapps (Sámi) have been reasonably thoroughly documented by the field research of anthropologists, the life and social organization of the settled population of the same area has been little studied, and is generally not accessible to the scholarly world outside Fennoscandia. In this article I shall endeavpur to redress this imbalance to some extent, by …
The Dynamics of Religious Defection among Hutterites
Karl Peter, Edward D. Boldt, Ian Whitaker, Lance W. Roberts, The Dynamics of Religious Defection among Hutterites, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Dec., 1982), pp. 327-337
Tuvan reindeer husbandry in the early 20th century
Among students of the history of reindeer domestication the Tuva occupy a special position. Their homeland, the Sayan mountains and the basin of the upper Yenisey, to the south-west of lake Baykal and to the north of the present-day frontier between the USSR and Mongolia, has frequently been suggested as the region where reindeer were first domesticated. This attribution rests on two types of evidence: the first archaeological, and largely consis…
The Gaelic Vision in Scottish Culture
A Sack for Carrying Things: The Traditional Role of Women in Northern Albanian Society
Le role des femmes chez les Ghegs du Nord de l'Albanie jusqu'au milieu du XX siecle. Analyse centree en grande partie sur la morale sexuelle: importance de la virginite dont le prix se paye par le sang, permissivite a l'egard de l'homosexualite quoique la litterature populaire fasse l'eloge de la puissance sexuelle et des conquetes homosexuelles des mâles, possibilite pour la femme, apres avoir jure une virginite eternelle, de s'habiller en homme…
The Acquisition of Personal Property among Hutterites and Its Social Dimensions
Changes in the kinship terminology of the Karesuando Sámi
The kinship and affinal terminology of the Karesuando Lapps (Sámi)
.
Obituary
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The beginnings of political organization among the Swedish Lapps (Sami)
It is now 60 years since the Swedish Lapps held their first national assembly ( landsmöte ) in Östersund in 1918. One year later the first issue appeared of Samefolkets Egen Tidning [The Lappish People's Own Newspaper], which, under the title Samefolket [The Lappish People], is still published, and thus provides a continuous record of organizational developments among the Swedish Lapps. In this article I shall survey political organization among …
Recent Anthropological Studies of the Faroe Islands (1971-1975)
For the student of European ethnology, the Faroe Islands, situated in the North Atlantic between Iceland and Norway, have particular comparative significance for Eastern Canadian settlement. The almost total dependence of the islands on the profits of fishing, their colonial status (from Denmark) over many centuries, their fiercely individualistic life-style, all have close parallels to phenomena in the social development of Newfoundland and Nova…
Some changes in Lainiovuoma Sámi reindeer management
The Scottish kayaks reconsidered
In my article in 1954 I suggested that the role of the Finns in the folklore of the northern Scottish Islands might have assisted in the attribution to these visitors of the designation "Finn-men" which is found in the earliest accounts. The aim of the article was to dispose of suggestions by earlier students of the problem (e.g. MacRitchie, 1912a, 130-1) that they might be visitors from Northern Europe, and to identify them clearly as Eskimos ar…
Regal Succession among the Dalriata
This paper examines critically the historical material relating to regal succession among the DilRiata of Scotland between the sixth and ninth centuries A.D. against some conceptual models developed by social anthropologists. Among the DilRiata, the operation of circulating succession served both to keep the segments of a lineage apart and also to maintain the solidarity of the dynasty within a dispersed group where there was constant pressure fr…
A Sack for Carrying Things: The Traditional Role of Women in Northern Albanian Society
Le role des femmes chez les Ghegs du Nord de l'Albanie jusqu'au milieu du XX siecle. Analyse centree en grande partie sur la morale sexuelle: importance de la virginite dont le prix se paye par le sang, permissivite a l'egard de l'homosexualite quoique la litterature populaire fasse l'eloge de la puissance sexuelle et des conquetes homosexuelles des mâles, possibilite pour la femme, apres avoir jure une virginite eternelle, de s'habiller en homme…
Social Relations in a Nomadic Lappish Community
Social Relations in a Nomadic Lappish Community Get access Social Relations in a Nomadic Lappish Community. By Ian Whitaker. Oslo, Utgitt av Norst Folkemuseum, 1955. 178 pp. Maps. Charts. Bibliog. Index. (Bind ii. Av Samiske Samlinger. Ed. by Asbjørn Nesheim.) 91⁄2′′ × 61⁄4′′. Kr. 10. M. B. M. B. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 1956, Page 105, https://doi.…
Some changes in Lainiovuoma Sámi reindeer management
The Scottish kayaks reconsidered
In my article in 1954 I suggested that the role of the Finns in the folklore of the northern Scottish Islands might have assisted in the attribution to these visitors of the designation "Finn-men" which is found in the earliest accounts. The aim of the article was to dispose of suggestions by earlier students of the problem (e.g. MacRitchie, 1912a, 130-1) that they might be visitors from Northern Europe, and to identify them clearly as Eskimos ar…
The King's Mirror [Konung's Skuggsjá] and northern research
The old Norwegian text known as Konungs skuggsjá (The King's Mirror) , hereafter abbreviated KS, is I believe the most significant early European vernacular document for northern research. This opinion was explicitly stated by Nansen, (1911, 2: 242)
The Dynamics of Religious Defection among Hutterites
Karl Peter, Edward D. Boldt, Ian Whitaker, Lance W. Roberts, The Dynamics of Religious Defection among Hutterites, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Dec., 1982), pp. 327-337
The Scottish Kayaks and the 'Finn-men
Among the more obscure aspects of polar research the problem of the appearance off Scotland of kayaks of Eskimo type is one of the most formidable. A These craft, one of which has certainly survived, normally become waterlogged after about forty-eight hours in the water. How then were they brought to the British Isles, and by whom?Apparently the earliest reference to their appearance off the Scottish coast is that of the Rev. James Wallace, Minis…
Health and the late mediaeval population of Greenland
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North Atlantic sea-creatures in the King's Mirror (Konungs Skuggsjá)
The 12th century Norwegian text Konungs Skuggsjá ( King's Mirror ), a didactic work prepared by one or several authors, probably for the education of a king's sons, provides some of the earliest known descriptions of sea-creatures (legendary and real) inhabiting northern Atlantic waters. Most of the descriptions give sufficient detail to allow identification with species common in the area today. This article (the second of two articles on Konung…
Whaling in classical Iceland
Sagas, law texts, court and ecclesiastical manuscripts, the King's Mirror , and later texts of the 17th and 18th centuries provide information on whaling activities in Iceland during the classical period (up to 1300) and later. Most references concern whales washed or driven ashore, rather than hunted in the open sea. Beached whales were clearly regarded as valuable food resources, generating disputes, litigation and other social conflict among t…
Tuvan reindeer husbandry in the early 20th century
Among students of the history of reindeer domestication the Tuva occupy a special position. Their homeland, the Sayan mountains and the basin of the upper Yenisey, to the south-west of lake Baykal and to the north of the present-day frontier between the USSR and Mongolia, has frequently been suggested as the region where reindeer were first domesticated. This attribution rests on two types of evidence: the first archaeological, and largely consis…
The beginnings of political organization among the Swedish Lapps (Sami)
It is now 60 years since the Swedish Lapps held their first national assembly ( landsmöte ) in Östersund in 1918. One year later the first issue appeared of Samefolkets Egen Tidning [The Lappish People's Own Newspaper], which, under the title Samefolket [The Lappish People], is still published, and thus provides a continuous record of organizational developments among the Swedish Lapps. In this article I shall survey political organization among …
Anthropology and the Study of 'Folk' Cultures
The Scottish Kayaks and the 'Finn-men
Among the more obscure aspects of polar research the problem of the appearance off Scotland of kayaks of Eskimo type is one of the most formidable. A These craft, one of which has certainly survived, normally become waterlogged after about forty-eight hours in the water. How then were they brought to the British Isles, and by whom?Apparently the earliest reference to their appearance off the Scottish coast is that of the Rev. James Wallace, Minis…
Changing Lapps: A Study in Culture Relations in Northernmost Norway, by Gutorm Gjessing
Some Notes on the Peasant Houses of Montenegro
Social Relations in a Nomadic Lappish Community
Social Relations in a Nomadic Lappish Community Get access Social Relations in a Nomadic Lappish Community. By Ian Whitaker. Oslo, Utgitt av Norst Folkemuseum, 1955. 178 pp. Maps. Charts. Bibliog. Index. (Bind ii. Av Samiske Samlinger. Ed. by Asbjørn Nesheim.) 91⁄2′′ × 61⁄4′′. Kr. 10. M. B. M. B. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 1956, Page 105, https://doi.…
ConcerningThe Lappsand Its Translation
Regal Succession among the Dalriata
This paper examines critically the historical material relating to regal succession among the DilRiata of Scotland between the sixth and ninth centuries A.D. against some conceptual models developed by social anthropologists. Among the DilRiata, the operation of circulating succession served both to keep the segments of a lineage apart and also to maintain the solidarity of the dynasty within a dispersed group where there was constant pressure fr…
The Scottish kayaks reconsidered
In my article in 1954 I suggested that the role of the Finns in the folklore of the northern Scottish Islands might have assisted in the attribution to these visitors of the designation "Finn-men" which is found in the earliest accounts. The aim of the article was to dispose of suggestions by earlier students of the problem (e.g. MacRitchie, 1912a, 130-1) that they might be visitors from Northern Europe, and to identify them clearly as Eskimos ar…
The beginnings of political organization among the Swedish Lapps (Sami)
It is now 60 years since the Swedish Lapps held their first national assembly ( landsmöte ) in Östersund in 1918. One year later the first issue appeared of Samefolkets Egen Tidning [The Lappish People's Own Newspaper], which, under the title Samefolket [The Lappish People], is still published, and thus provides a continuous record of organizational developments among the Swedish Lapps. In this article I shall survey political organization among …
Recent Anthropological Studies of the Faroe Islands (1971-1975)
For the student of European ethnology, the Faroe Islands, situated in the North Atlantic between Iceland and Norway, have particular comparative significance for Eastern Canadian settlement. The almost total dependence of the islands on the profits of fishing, their colonial status (from Denmark) over many centuries, their fiercely individualistic life-style, all have close parallels to phenomena in the social development of Newfoundland and Nova…
Some changes in Lainiovuoma Sámi reindeer management
The kinship and affinal terminology of the Karesuando Lapps (Sámi)
.
Obituary
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button
Changes in the kinship terminology of the Karesuando Sámi
Tuvan reindeer husbandry in the early 20th century
Among students of the history of reindeer domestication the Tuva occupy a special position. Their homeland, the Sayan mountains and the basin of the upper Yenisey, to the south-west of lake Baykal and to the north of the present-day frontier between the USSR and Mongolia, has frequently been suggested as the region where reindeer were first domesticated. This attribution rests on two types of evidence: the first archaeological, and largely consis…
The Gaelic Vision in Scottish Culture
A Sack for Carrying Things: The Traditional Role of Women in Northern Albanian Society
Le role des femmes chez les Ghegs du Nord de l'Albanie jusqu'au milieu du XX siecle. Analyse centree en grande partie sur la morale sexuelle: importance de la virginite dont le prix se paye par le sang, permissivite a l'egard de l'homosexualite quoique la litterature populaire fasse l'eloge de la puissance sexuelle et des conquetes homosexuelles des mâles, possibilite pour la femme, apres avoir jure une virginite eternelle, de s'habiller en homme…
The Acquisition of Personal Property among Hutterites and Its Social Dimensions
The Dynamics of Religious Defection among Hutterites
Karl Peter, Edward D. Boldt, Ian Whitaker, Lance W. Roberts, The Dynamics of Religious Defection among Hutterites, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Dec., 1982), pp. 327-337
Settler and nomad in northern Torne Lapmark
It is one of the quirks of Arctic studies that although the society and culture of the nomadic Lapps (Sámi) have been reasonably thoroughly documented by the field research of anthropologists, the life and social organization of the settled population of the same area has been little studied, and is generally not accessible to the scholarly world outside Fennoscandia. In this article I shall endeavpur to redress this imbalance to some extent, by …
Whaling in classical Iceland
Sagas, law texts, court and ecclesiastical manuscripts, the King's Mirror , and later texts of the 17th and 18th centuries provide information on whaling activities in Iceland during the classical period (up to 1300) and later. Most references concern whales washed or driven ashore, rather than hunted in the open sea. Beached whales were clearly regarded as valuable food resources, generating disputes, litigation and other social conflict among t…
The reindeer in the prehistoric art of Siberia
The relatively naturalistic representation of animals of thecervidaefamily has long been recognized as dominating much of the prehistoric art of Siberia. These animals are found in the petroglyphs which date from the Neolithic, but are, perhaps, better known in the bronze items that have been so much sought after in the last 1OO years. I t is my purpose here to examine these artistic products in an attempt to identify the species of animals the a…
The King's Mirror [Konung's Skuggsjá] and northern research
The old Norwegian text known as Konungs skuggsjá (The King's Mirror) , hereafter abbreviated KS, is I believe the most significant early European vernacular document for northern research. This opinion was explicitly stated by Nansen, (1911, 2: 242)
Core Values among the Blasket Islanders
The Blasket Islands off the coast of south-west Ireland were the home of the most westerly Europeans, until the last inhabitants were evacuated in 1953. They were essentially fishermen, but also pursued limited farming, increasingly supplemented by transfer payments from the Irish state, and by the remittances of those islanders who had emigrated in expanding numbers to the United States. The Blasket people maintained a rich oral tradition that p…
North Atlantic sea-creatures in the King's Mirror (Konungs Skuggsjá)
The 12th century Norwegian text Konungs Skuggsjá ( King's Mirror ), a didactic work prepared by one or several authors, probably for the education of a king's sons, provides some of the earliest known descriptions of sea-creatures (legendary and real) inhabiting northern Atlantic waters. Most of the descriptions give sufficient detail to allow identification with species common in the area today. This article (the second of two articles on Konung…
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