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Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - S pps
... percent
from
Viet-
nam
are
from
rural
backgrounds,
though
this
is
higher
for
Cambodians
and
Laotians.
As
many
as
one-half
have
back-
grounds
in
shopkeeping
and
small-scale
manufacturing;
these
were
Chinese
economic
specializations
throughout
South-
east
Asia.
Even
so,
Southeast
Asians
often
have
fewer
occu-
pational,
class,
and
language
resources
than
typical
Canadi-
ans,
and
the
majority
wor...
Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - A pps
... province
of
Quebec
has
influenced
the
spoken
language,
whereas
isolated
areas
such
as
Cheticamp,
on
Cape
Breton
Island,
Nova
Scotia,
have
maintained
a
more
archaic
form
of
speech.
In
the
Moncton
area,
constant
intermingling
between
Acadians
and
English
speakers
has
spawned
a
hybrid
form
of
speech,
known
as
Chiac.
In
French-language
schools,
modem
standard
French
is
taught,
and
students...
Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - E ppsx
... any
of
the
four
East
Asian-American
groups
is
a
homoge-
neous
cultural
group
in
the
United
States.
Within
each
are
a
number
of
identifiable
subgroups,
with
perhaps
the
most
sigi-
ficant
being
those
who
arrived
before
World
War
II
and
their
descendants
and
those
who
have
arrived
since,
the
latter,
ex-
cept
for
Japanese-Americans,
making
up
the
overwhelming
majority
of
East
Asian-Americ...
Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - J ppsx
... degree
to
which
members
of
each
are
assimilated
into
North
American
society.
Other
categories
of
Jews
based
on
degree
of
religiousness
include
Hasidic
(ultra-Orthodox)
Jews,
Reconstructionalists,
and
"Civil"
Jews.
As
mentioned
above,
Jews
arrived
in
North
America
in
waves,
largely
from
European
nations
and
these
places
of
an-
cestry
are
used
to
delineate
one
Jew
or
gro...
Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - Overview ppt
... possible
in
reporting
population
figures.
This
is
no
easy
task,
as
some
groups
are
not
counted
in
official
government
censuses,
some
groups
are
very
likely
undercounted,
and
in
some
cases
the
definition
of
a
cultural
group
used
by
the
census
takers
differs
from
the
definition
we
have
used.
In
general,
we
have
relied
on
population
figures
supplied
by
the
summary
authors.
When
other
populatio...
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... Edward
E.
Haas,
3-3 1.
New
Orleans:
Louisiana
State
Museum.
Jacobs,
Claude
F.
(198).
"Spirit
Guides
and
Possession
in
the
New
Orleans
Black
Spiritual
Churches."
Journal
of
American
Folklore,
102(403):4 5-6 7.
Neumann,
Ingrid
(1985).
Le
Creole
de
Breaux
Bridge,
Louisiane.
Hamburg:
Helmut
Buske
Verlag.
Spitzer,
Nicholas
R.
(1984).
Zydeco:
Creole
Music
and
Cul-
ture
in
Rural
Lou...
Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - C docx
... teasing,
and
sometimes
ostracism
acted
as
negative
sanctions
if
the
child
misbehaved.
Many
of
these
mechanisms
are
used
today,
but
physical
punishment
is
also
now
used
to
correct
undesirable
behavior.
Sociopolitical
Organization
Social
Organization.
Although
kinship
was
the
founda-
tion
of
Cheyenne
society,
there
coexisted
four
types
of
social
organization:
the
vestoz
(a
camp),
the
manh...
Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - D ppt
... he
was
riding
from
Brilliant,
B.C.,
to
Grand
Forks,
B.C.
The
event
deeply
scarred
Douk-
hobor
views
of
their
new
country
and
compounded
their
his-
toric
fear
of
secular
governments.
Not
until
three
years
later
did
Gospodnie&apos ;s
son
Peter
Chistiakov
(Purger)
travel
from
Russia
to
Canada
to
take
control
of
the
ccuB.
Intending
Doukhobor
reunification,
he
organized
a
blanket
structure,...
Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - F,G pdf
... with
a
mem-
ber
of
the
spouse&apos ;s
lineage;
failure
to
do
so
brought
retribu-
tion
from
the
women
of
the
offended
lineage
in
the
form
of
the
destruction
of
the
offender&apos ;s
property.
Domestic
Unit.
Each
household
consisted
of
an
extended
family
of
between
five
and
thirty
persons.
Each
extended
fam-
ily
constituted
an
economic
unit
whose
members
cooperated
in
hunting
and
a...
Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - H doc
... was
the
most
important
religious
rite.
See
also
Tewa
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Edward
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