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The Giant Beaver: A Prehistoric Memory?
Abstract
An examination of the giant beaver tale among various northeastern Algonkian tribes (such as the Montagnais, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Micmac and Malecite) and a study of the nature and distribution of the Pleistocene giant beaver, Castoroides ohioensis, lead to the tentative conclusion that elements in these tales represent a kind of fossil memory of this long-extinct rodent.
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Some Micmac Tales from Cape Breton Island
Speck, F. G. (1915) · Journal of American Folklore · doi:10.2307/534558 · Cited by 13
Records and Distribution of the Fossil Beaver, Castoroides Ohioensis
Cahn, A. R. (1932) · Journal of Mammalogy · doi:10.2307/1373998 · Cited by 11
AN INDIAN TRADITION RELATING TO THE MASTODON
Montagu, M. F. A. (1944) · American Anthropologist · doi:10.1525/aa.1944.46.4.02a00250 · Cited by 7
Folklore from the Half-Breeds in Nova Scotia
Fauset, A. H. (1925) · Journal of American Folklore · doi:10.2307/535032 · Cited by 4
Gluskap the liar, & other Indian tales
Beck, H. P. (1966) · Cited by 1
The animal that cannot lie down.
BECK, H. P. (1949) · PubMed · Cited by 1
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Shaw, J., Amos, C. L., Greenberg, D. A., O’Reilly, C. T., PARROTT, D. R., & Patton, E. (2010) · Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences · doi:10.1139/e10-046 · Cited by 48
The Ecology and Evolution of Beavers: Ecosystem Engineers That Ameliorate Climate Change
Fairfax, E., & Westbrook, C. J. (2024) · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · doi:10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102722-122317 · Cited by 33
New World Ethnohistory and Archaeology, 1970-1980
Spores, R. (1980) · Annual Review of Anthropology · doi:10.1146/annurev.an.09.100180.003043 · Cited by 26
Ghost of the Forest: the Tangible and Intangible in Natural and Cultural Heritage
Robischon, M. (2015) · International journal of intangible heritage · doi:10.35638/ijih.2015..10.002 · Cited by 3
Collective Memory of the Prehistoric Past and the Archaeological Landscape
Wiley, C. J. (2008) · Lincoln (University of Nebraska) · Cited by 1
Metadata
- Authors
- Beck, J. C.
- Corresponding author
- Beck, Jane C.
- Venue
- Ethnohistory
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1972
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 109
- ISSN
- 0014-1801 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2315332080
- Cited by
- 5
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Ethnohistory (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Indigenous Cultures and History
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies
- Keywords
- Pleistocene megafauna, oral tradition, folk tales, cultural hero, trickster, Innu, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, MICMAC
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