Words of the Huron

by John L. Steckley

Words of the Huron is an investigation into seventeenth-century Huron culture through a kind of linguistic archaeology of a language that died midway through the twentieth century.

John L. Steckley explores a range of topics, including: the construction of longhouses and wooden armour; the use of words for trees in village names; the social anthropological standards of kinship terms and clans; Huron conceptualizing of European-borne...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889205167
• ISBN13: 9780889205161
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"