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Title: | Children's Drawings in a Mashkeko Cree Community |
Authors: | Fulford, Taylor George |
Advisor: | Preston, Richard |
Department: | Anthropology |
Keywords: | Anthropology;Anthropology |
Publication Date: | Oct-1994 |
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> |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/13823 |
Identifier: | opendissertations/8653 9728 4939214 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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