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Alfred Irving Hallowell
Alfred Irving Hallowell
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The few graduate students who were in resilience at the time of Hallowell's arrival in ~ 948 knew him primarily as one of the founclers of the new field of "culture and personality." He was particularly noted for his use of the Rorschach, or ink-blot, test to assess the personality structures of American Indian populations. This innovation in the use of projective techniques made him something of a controversial figure, for many anthropologists including his own mentor, Speck were not especially in favor of the kind of clinical approach to the study of human society that the use of such tools as the Rorschach seemed to imply.
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'rhis variety of intellectual resources made his explorations of Ojibwa society at once precisely descriptive and richly evocative models for emulation by others working in other communities. Hallowell was, incleecI, one of the principal figures in the development of modern ethnography, which is distinguished by its effort to combine detailed!
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Italian Renaissance painting. This exposure to the liberal arts and to the atmosphere of social reform fed the fires of rebellion against conservative family values ant!
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But Hallowell was not satisfied with the role of comparative ethnologist, which would require more work in the library than in the fiel(l, and so after some casting about, in the late 920's he began that series of studies of northern AIgonkian life and culture which he was to continue for the remainder of his professional career. His works on the Abenaki of Quebec, the Montagnais-Naskapi of Labrador, and particularly the Saulteaux or Ojibwa of the Lake Winnipeg region were significant not merely in providing a rich ant!
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began in 1934 and by the time of Hallowell's death amounted to about forty individual papers, articles, chapters, and one monograph (The Role of Conjuring in Saulteaux Society, 1942~. The works cover virtually all aspects of Ojibwa culture kinship and social organization, economics and technology, ecological relationships (particularly as they affected lane!
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" And throughout the series occur reports on material culture, the size of hunting territories as a function of ecological adjustment, the role of conjuring and the decline of native ceremonies, folktales, ant! various other necessary, if conventional, parts of standard ethnography.
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turn to tests of perception the so-called projective techniques and particularly to the Rorschach test as his favored technique of assessing indiviclual Ojibwa personalities. He collected a series of 266 Rorschach records from various Ojibwa communities, and although he never prepared an over-all summary of the results in the form of a sketch of typical Ojibwa personality structures, he used the data in a number of papers, including both those descriptive of Ojibwa cases and those explicating the use of the Rorschach test in cross-cultural research.
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crescent. Critical attacks on the iclea of the aborig~nality of the family hunting territory among the northern AIgonkians (which Speck had originates!
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There he and his wife, Maude, on occasion entertained students, faculty, and visitors to the area at small gatherings where the talk revolved around personality structure ant! its assessment, psychocultural evolution, and other psychologically oriented aspects of
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In lecturing, as in writing, Hallowell liked to surround the points he macle in clear academic prose with a thicket of allusions to the literature, so that lecture notes and published papers alike bristled with footnotes and bibliographical asides. The style of all this was, however, more sprightly than pedantic, and in personal conversation the apparatus of scholarship was replaced by a func!
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Fogelson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976~. The later work also contains a brief autobiographical memoir; the former, several previously unpublished papers, which are noted in the bibliography.
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The passing of the Midewiwin in the Lake Winnipeg region.
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The incidence, character and decline of polygamy among the Lake Winnipeg Cree and Saulteaux.
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Rorschach Research Exchange, 5:31-34. (A prospectus written prior to collection of first Rorschach protocols in 1938.)
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Popular responses and culture differences: an analysis based on frequencies in a group of American Indian subjects. Rorschach Research Exchange, 9: 153-68.
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(Presidential Address, Society for Projective Techniques, October 8, 1950.) 1952 Ojibwa personality and acculturation.
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Rorschach protocols of 151 Berens River adults and children and 155 adults from Lac du Flambeau. In: Microcard Publications of Primary Records in Culture and Personality, No.6, ed.
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In: The Philadelphia Anthropological Society: Papers Presented on Its Golden Anniversary, ed.
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1976 Northern Ojibwa ecological adaptation and social organization. Contributions to Anthropology: Selected Papers of A
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