Gros Ventre Ethnogeography and Place Names

A Diachronic Perspective

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3777965
AutoresAndrew Cowell (0000-0002-2479-7670, autor correspondente), Allan R Taylor, Allan Taylor, Terry Brockie (0000-0002-1888-3417)
Ano2016
Volume58
Fascículo2
Páginas132-170
Data de publicação2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnthropological linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-5483 • E-ISSN: 1944-6527
EditoraProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/anl.2016.0025
OpenAlexW2601645992
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas9

This article documents and linguistically analyzes all known place names in the Gros Ventre language. Analysis of names both from the perspective of a supra-tribal system of place names on the Northern Plains and with respect to a naming system specific to Gros Ventre (which we compare to that of Arapaho) allows a better understanding of the ethnogeographic process of identifying a particular region as a homeland. Postcontact names reveal shifts in the system; nonetheless, the overall homelanding process remains largely intact in its structure and ideology, despite major changes in the types of place names used resulting from the shift from nomadism, and attendant cosmological perspectives on the land, to a settled reservation existence

Archaeology · Art · Ethnology · Homeland · Ideology · Linguistics · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Reservation · Sociology · Toponymy · Visual arts · African history and culture analysis · Anthropology · History · Law · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Philosophy · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology