Gros Ventre Ethnogeography and Place Names

A Diachronic Perspective

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3777965
AutoresAndrew Cowell (0000-0002-2479-7670, autor de correspondencia), Allan R Taylor, Allan Taylor, Terry Brockie (0000-0002-1888-3417)
Año2016
Volumen58
Número2
Páginas132-170
Fecha de publicación2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropological linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-5483 • E-ISSN: 1944-6527
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/anl.2016.0025
OpenAlexW2601645992
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias 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