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eHRAF World Cultures
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The Cajuns are an ethnic minority of the United States who have lived mainly in south-central and southwestern Louisiana since the late eighteenth century. The term generally applies to the descendants of the French Acadians who migrated from Canada to Louisiana. This file includes eighteen documents and covers the period from the late eighteenth century to the 1980s. These documents include a heavy emphasis on cultural history and the Cajun concept of ethnic identity. Probably the best general ethnography for the file is Ancelet which presents a comprehensive study of Acadian/Cajun cultural history from the early seventeenth century in Nova Scotia to the present day in Louisiana. It also includes contemporary data on family religion, folk medicine and law, architecture, foodways, music, games, and oral literary traditions. Esman provides an ethnographic survey of the community of Henderson, La. which includes data on the history of the community, its economy, restaurants, family life, sex roles, social life, religion, politics, play and leisure activities, and relations with neighboring communities and with other ethnic minority groups
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Culture summary: Cajuns - HRAF Staff and John Beierle - 1995 -- - Cajun country - Barry Jean Ancelet, Jay D. Edwards, and Glen Pitre ; with additional material by Carl Brasseaux, et al. - 1991 -- - Henderson, Louisiana: cultural adaptation in a Cajun community - Marjorie Esman - 1986 -- - The people called Cajuns: an introduction to an ethnohistory - James H. Dormon - 1983 -- - The Cajuns: from Acadia to Louisiana - William Faulkner Rushton - 1979 -- - The founding of New Acadia: the beginnings of Acadian life in Louisiana, 1765-1803 - Carl A. Brasseaux - 1987 -- - Acadian to Cajun: transformation of a people, 1803-1877 - Carl A. Brasseaux - 1992 -- - Cajun foodways - C. Paige Gutierrez - 1992 --
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- The Cajun culture of southwestern Louisiana: a study of cultural isolation and role adaptation as factors in the fusion of black African and French Acadian culture traits - David Julian Hodges - 1972 -- - The celebration of Cajun identity: ethnic unity and the Crawfish Festival - Marjorie Ruth Esman - 1981 -- - Speech in a Louisiana Cajun community - Dorice Tentchoff - 1977 -- - The rhetoric of community ritual: the blessing of the shrimp fleet at Chauvin, Louisiana - Barbara Elizabeth Gordon - 1991 -- - The culture of Acadiana: an anthropological perspective - Jon L. Gibson and Steven Del Sesto - 1975 -- - Cajun French and French creole: their speakers and the questions of identities - Dorice Tentchoff - 1975 -- - Language and ethnic identity in south Louisiana: implications of data from Mamou Prairie - Gerald L. Gold - 1982 -- - Cajun music: its origin and development - Barry Jean Ancelet - 1989 -- - South to Louisiana: the music of the Cajun bayous - John Broven - 1983 -- - Cajun music: a reflection of a people. Vol. 1 - compiled & edited by Ann Allen Savoy - 1984 -- - Additional bibliography on the Cajuns - Human Relations Area Files - [1994]
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English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Cajun
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