This volume of selected papers celebrates the sixtieth birthday of Dr. A. Irving Hallowell.

American Anthropologist, V50, No. 4, Part 2, October, 1948. Memoir No. 70. Additional Editors Are Frederica De Laguna And J. Lawrence Angel.

Memoir Series Of The American Anthropological Association, No. 67. Additional Editors Are Frederica De Laguna And J. Lawrence Angel.

Additional Contributors Include Jesse D. Jennings, Harry Hoijer, C. F. Voegelin, Clyde Kluckhohn, And Many Others.

Publications Of The Society For Pennsylvania Archaeology, V1. Appendix By Gladys Tantaquidgeon.

Additional Contributors Include Jesse D. Jennings, Harry Hoijer, C. F. Voegelin, Clyde Kluckhohn, And Many Others.

American Anthropologist, V50, No. 4, Part 2, October, 1948. Memoir No. 70. Additional Editors Are Frederica De Laguna And J. Lawrence Angel.

Additional Editors Are Frederica De Laguna And J. Lawrence Angel.

From 1930 to 1940, A. Irving Hallowell, a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, made repeated summer fieldwork visits to Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, and to the Ojibwe community at Berens River on the lake's east side. He traveled up the Berens River several times to other Ojibwe communities as well, under the guidance of William Berens, the treaty chief at Berens River from 1917 to 1947 and Hallowell's closest collaborator. "Contributions to Ojibwe Studies" presents twenty-eight of Hallowell's writings focusing on the Ojibwe people at Berens River.
This collection is the first time that the majority of Hallowell's otherwise widely dispersed essays about the Ojibwe have been gathered into a single volume, thus providing a focused, in-depth view of his contributions to our knowledge and understanding of a vital North American aboriginal people. This volume also contributes to the history of North American anthropology, since Hallowell's approaches to and analyses of his findings shed light on his role in the shifting intellectual currents in anthropology over four decades.

The formative years of American anthropology were characterized by intellectual energy and excitement, the identification of key interpretive issues, and the beginnings of a prodigious amount of fieldwork and recording. The American Anthropological Association (AAA) was born as anthropology emerged as a formal discipline with specialized subfields; fieldwork among Native communities proliferated across North America, yielding a wealth of ethnographic information that began to surface in the flagship journal, the American Anthropologist; and researchers increasingly debated and probed deeper into the roots and significance of ritual, myth, language, social organization, and the physical make-up and prehistory of Native Americans.
The fifty-five selections in this volume represent the interests of and accomplishments in American anthropology from the establishment of the American Anthropologist through World War I. The articles in their entirety showcase the state of the subfields of anthropology--archaeology, linguistics, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology--as they were imagined and practiced at the dawn of the twentieth century. Examples of important ethnographic accounts and interpretive debates are also included. Introducing this collection is a historical overview of the beginnings of American anthropology by A. Irving Hallowell, a former president of the AAA.