Children's Drawings in a Mashkeko Cree Community

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dc.contributor.advisor	Preston, Richard	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Fulford, Taylor George	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2014-06-18T17:05:22Z	-
dc.date.available	2014-06-18T17:05:22Z	-
dc.date.created	2013-12-20	en_US
dc.date.issued	1994-10	en_US
dc.identifier.other	opendissertations/8653	en_US
dc.identifier.other	9728	en_US
dc.identifier.other	4939214	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11375/13823	-
dc.description.abstract	<p>This dissertation is an ethnography of Mashkeko ('Swampy Cree') children's art. Specifically, the way in which Cree-speaking children in Kashechewan - a small isolated community on the west coast of James Bay - use drawings as a form of discourse is discussed. Using techniques developed for the structural analysis of myths, the content and form of 200 drawings made by ten Mashkeko children aged 6-12 years are compared and contrasted to show some general characteristics of Mashkeko children's art. It is hypothesized that these drawings function in a way that is analogous to speech and writing. The theoretical relevance of this hypothesis to some current debates about the structure of language is discussed.</p>	en_US
dc.subject	Anthropology	en_US
dc.subject	Anthropology	en_US
dc.title	Children's Drawings in a Mashkeko Cree Community	en_US
dc.type	thesis	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Anthropology	en_US
dc.description.degree	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)	en_US
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