David Damas
Biographic Data
| ID | 79554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Damas |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Damas |
| SIGNATURE | DAMAS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Title System of Pingelap and the Diversity of Atoll Political Organizations
This paper focuses on the factors involved in the development, political process, and guiding principles of a title system which formed the basis of polity on Pingelap atoll in the Eastern Carolines. The evolution of the system of titles is discussed with particular attention to the historical and geographical factors involved in its development, and the effects of contact with other cultures on that system. Comparisons are drawn within Micronesi…
Richard Slobodin (1915–2005)
Bountiful Island: A Study of Land Tenure on a Micronesian Atoll
The Pingelap Study in Comparative Perspective
Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers: The Transformation of Inuit Settlement in the Central Arctic
Bountiful Island: A Study of Land Tenure on a Micronesian Atoll
Inuit Sex-Ratio Variation: Population Control, Ethnographic Error, or Parental Manipulation? [and Comments and Reply]
Tammarniit (Mistakes): Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic, 1939-63
A Victorian Earl in the Arctic: The Travels and Collections of the Fifth Earl of Lonsdale, 1888-89
Friends on Friends
Residential Group Types, Virilocality, and Migration: The Pingelap Case
Damas analyzes Pingelapese domestic units based on data from 3 censuses he conducted on Pinegelap atoll from 1975-1983; he also gathered statements and life histories from a number of Pingelapese to explore domestic group formation and devolution and the effects of migration. Data were examined on a backdrop of residence theory and principles. Damas concludes that married sons or siblings on Pinegelap appear to coreside when the virilocal extende…
Inuit Behavior and Seasonal Change in the Canadian Arctic, by Richard G. Condon
Pingelap Politics and American-Micronesian Relations
Historique et analyse des relations politiques entre Pingelap et les Etats-Unis compte tenu de l'isolement politique local et des conditions de vie a Pingelap, sous l'administration americaine
Handbook of North American Indians. Volume 5: Arctic
Research Practices in the Study of Kinship
Northern Nomadic Hunter-Gatherers: A Humanistic Approach, by David Riches
Demography and kinship as variables of adoption in the Carolines
Ruth Goodenough stresses the role of sterility in adoption in the Truk lagoon, while Marshall reports a higher rate of adoption for Namoluk despite greater fertility and argues that adoption rates are best understood as expressions of behavior fundamental to kinship relations. Ritter finds both sets of factors to be important in adoption on Kosrae in the eastern Carolines. Frequency of adoption on Pingelap atoll shows a clear response to rates of…
Hunter-Gatherer Foraging Strategies: Ethnographic and Archeological Analyses
Inuit Adoption, by Lee Guemple
This monograph fills a long existing gap in Eskimo studies. There have been many references to adoption in the literature on the Inuit but few detailed or systematic studies of that practice in the Arctic. Dr. Guemple addresses himself to the difficult dual task of reaching an audience of both professional anthropologists and interested and concerned general readers. Except in the final chapter, where he deals explicitly with problems of concern …
Aspects of Inuit Value Socialization, by Jean L. Briggs
may be terms that Eskimos use when talking
Social anthropology of the central Eskimo
The study of social organization has moved from a peripheral to a central position in the burgeoning literature of the Eskimo. Presentations of Eskimo kinship systems have had an important impact on attempts at classifying kinship terminologies and kinship has become a major preoccupation of field workers in the Central Eskimo regions in recent years. Less well explored but still significantly represented in the recent literature are such topics …
Demographic aspects of central Eskimo marriage practices
The Iglulik, Netsilik, and Copper Eskimo tribes inhabit two ecological zones. Differences in subsistence opportunities explain demographic contrasts which are reflected in the differential occurrence of exogamic-endogamic practices. Other aspects of marriage, such as ratios between polygyny and polyandry and the terminological concomitants of marriage practices, must be explained by sociopsychological or historical factors
Ethnology: Eskimos. KAJ Birket-SMITH
Artic Townsmen: Ethnic Backgrounds and Modernization. John J. Honigmann , Irma Honigmann
Central Eskimo Systems of Food Sharing
Some of the ethnographies (Boas I888; Stefansson IgI3; Jenness I922; Rasmussen I929, I93I, I932; Spencer I959; Balikci I964) deal with food distribution procedures and provide the bases for such generalizations as those of Birket-Smith and Weyern but seldom is there available a comprehensive account of the various systems of distribution that are found in any particular group. This paper is chiefly intended as an ethnographic contribution-the pre…
Hunter-Gatherer Foraging Strategies: Ethnographic and Archeological Analyses
Central Eskimo Systems of Food Sharing
Some of the ethnographies (Boas I888; Stefansson IgI3; Jenness I922; Rasmussen I929, I93I, I932; Spencer I959; Balikci I964) deal with food distribution procedures and provide the bases for such generalizations as those of Birket-Smith and Weyern but seldom is there available a comprehensive account of the various systems of distribution that are found in any particular group. This paper is chiefly intended as an ethnographic contribution-the pre…
Inuit Sex-Ratio Variation: Population Control, Ethnographic Error, or Parental Manipulation? [and Comments and Reply]
The Contact-Traditional All-Native Community of the Canadian North: The Upper Mackenzie "Bush" Athapaskans and the Igluligmiut
June Helm, David Damas, The Contact-Traditional All-Native Community of the Canadian North: The Upper Mackenzie "Bush" Athapaskans and the Igluligmiut, Anthropologica, New Series, Vol. 5, No. 1, Community Organization and Pattern Change among North Canadian and Alaskan Indians and Eskimos (1963), pp. 9-21
Demographic aspects of central Eskimo marriage practices
The Iglulik, Netsilik, and Copper Eskimo tribes inhabit two ecological zones. Differences in subsistence opportunities explain demographic contrasts which are reflected in the differential occurrence of exogamic-endogamic practices. Other aspects of marriage, such as ratios between polygyny and polyandry and the terminological concomitants of marriage practices, must be explained by sociopsychological or historical factors
Pingelap Politics and American-Micronesian Relations
Historique et analyse des relations politiques entre Pingelap et les Etats-Unis compte tenu de l'isolement politique local et des conditions de vie a Pingelap, sous l'administration americaine
The Hunters. Elman R. Service
Ethnology: Eskimos. KAJ Birket-SMITH
The Contact-Traditional All-Native Community of the Canadian North: The Upper Mackenzie "Bush" Athapaskans and the Igluligmiut
June Helm, David Damas, The Contact-Traditional All-Native Community of the Canadian North: The Upper Mackenzie "Bush" Athapaskans and the Igluligmiut, Anthropologica, New Series, Vol. 5, No. 1, Community Organization and Pattern Change among North Canadian and Alaskan Indians and Eskimos (1963), pp. 9-21
The Patterning of the Iglulingmiut Kinship System
David Damas's "The Patterning of the Iglulingmiut Kinship System" explores the kinship structure of the Iglulingmiut, a Netsilik Inuit group residing in the Pelly Bay region of the Canadian Arctic. Damas analyzes the terminology and behavioral patterns associated with kinship, demonstrating how the system adapts to the ecological and social demands of their environment. He emphasizes the importance of bilateral kinship, flexible residence pattern…
Diversity in White-Eskimo Leadership Interaction
The Hunters. Elman R. Service
Artic Townsmen: Ethnic Backgrounds and Modernization. John J. Honigmann , Irma Honigmann
Central Eskimo Systems of Food Sharing
Some of the ethnographies (Boas I888; Stefansson IgI3; Jenness I922; Rasmussen I929, I93I, I932; Spencer I959; Balikci I964) deal with food distribution procedures and provide the bases for such generalizations as those of Birket-Smith and Weyern but seldom is there available a comprehensive account of the various systems of distribution that are found in any particular group. This paper is chiefly intended as an ethnographic contribution-the pre…
Ethnology: Eskimos. KAJ Birket-SMITH
Social anthropology of the central Eskimo
The study of social organization has moved from a peripheral to a central position in the burgeoning literature of the Eskimo. Presentations of Eskimo kinship systems have had an important impact on attempts at classifying kinship terminologies and kinship has become a major preoccupation of field workers in the Central Eskimo regions in recent years. Less well explored but still significantly represented in the recent literature are such topics …
Demographic aspects of central Eskimo marriage practices
The Iglulik, Netsilik, and Copper Eskimo tribes inhabit two ecological zones. Differences in subsistence opportunities explain demographic contrasts which are reflected in the differential occurrence of exogamic-endogamic practices. Other aspects of marriage, such as ratios between polygyny and polyandry and the terminological concomitants of marriage practices, must be explained by sociopsychological or historical factors
Inuit Adoption, by Lee Guemple
This monograph fills a long existing gap in Eskimo studies. There have been many references to adoption in the literature on the Inuit but few detailed or systematic studies of that practice in the Arctic. Dr. Guemple addresses himself to the difficult dual task of reaching an audience of both professional anthropologists and interested and concerned general readers. Except in the final chapter, where he deals explicitly with problems of concern …
Aspects of Inuit Value Socialization, by Jean L. Briggs
may be terms that Eskimos use when talking
Northern Nomadic Hunter-Gatherers: A Humanistic Approach, by David Riches
Demography and kinship as variables of adoption in the Carolines
Ruth Goodenough stresses the role of sterility in adoption in the Truk lagoon, while Marshall reports a higher rate of adoption for Namoluk despite greater fertility and argues that adoption rates are best understood as expressions of behavior fundamental to kinship relations. Ritter finds both sets of factors to be important in adoption on Kosrae in the eastern Carolines. Frequency of adoption on Pingelap atoll shows a clear response to rates of…
Hunter-Gatherer Foraging Strategies: Ethnographic and Archeological Analyses
Handbook of North American Indians. Volume 5: Arctic
Research Practices in the Study of Kinship
Inuit Behavior and Seasonal Change in the Canadian Arctic, by Richard G. Condon
Pingelap Politics and American-Micronesian Relations
Historique et analyse des relations politiques entre Pingelap et les Etats-Unis compte tenu de l'isolement politique local et des conditions de vie a Pingelap, sous l'administration americaine
Friends on Friends
Residential Group Types, Virilocality, and Migration: The Pingelap Case
Damas analyzes Pingelapese domestic units based on data from 3 censuses he conducted on Pinegelap atoll from 1975-1983; he also gathered statements and life histories from a number of Pingelapese to explore domestic group formation and devolution and the effects of migration. Data were examined on a backdrop of residence theory and principles. Damas concludes that married sons or siblings on Pinegelap appear to coreside when the virilocal extende…
A Victorian Earl in the Arctic: The Travels and Collections of the Fifth Earl of Lonsdale, 1888-89
Inuit Sex-Ratio Variation: Population Control, Ethnographic Error, or Parental Manipulation? [and Comments and Reply]
Tammarniit (Mistakes): Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic, 1939-63
Bountiful Island: A Study of Land Tenure on a Micronesian Atoll
Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers: The Transformation of Inuit Settlement in the Central Arctic
Geography (20 works) · History (18 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Anthropology (13 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (11 works) · Genealogy (8 works) · Geology (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Geology (7 works) · Oceanography (7 works)