| Included Work | Ancelet, Barry Jean Cajun country. |
| Included Work | Ancelet, Barry Jean Cajun music. |
| Included Work | Brasseaux, Carl A. Acadian to Cajun. |
| Included Work | Brasseaux, Carl A. Founding of New Acadia. |
| Included Work | Broven, John South to Louisiana. |
| Included Work | Dormon, James H. People called Cajuns. |
| Included Work | Esman, Marjorie R. Henderson, Louisiana. |
| Included Work | Esman, Marjorie R. Celebration of Cajun identity. |
| Included Work | Gibson, Jon L. Culture of Acadiana. |
| Included Work | Gold, Gerald L. Language and ethnic identity in south Louisiana. |
| Included Work | Gordon, Barbara Elizabeth. Rhetoric of community ritual. |
| Included Work | Gutierrez, C. Paige. Cajun foodways. |
| Included Work | Hodges, David Julian, 1944- Cajun culture of southwestern Louisiana. |
| Included Work | Rushton, William Faulkner. Cajuns. |
| Included Work | Savoy, Ann, 1952- Cajun music. |
| Included Work | Tentchoff, Dorice, 1926- Cajun French and French creole. |
| Included Work | Tentchoff, Dorice, 1926- Speech in a Louisiana Cajun community. |
| Other author/creator | Human Relations Area Files, inc. |
| Series |
eHRAF world cultures. North America
EHRAF world cultures. North America. UNAUTHORIZED
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| Contents |
Cajun country ; Cajun music / Barry Jean Ancelet -- Acadian to Cajun ; The founding of New Acadia / Carl A. Brasseaux -- South to Louisiana / John Broven -- The people called Cajuns / James H. Dormon -- Henderson, Louisiana ; The celebration of Cajun identity / Marjorie R. Esman -- The culture of Acadiana / Jon L. Gibson -- Language and ethnic identity in south Louisiana / Gerald L. Gold -- The rhetoric of community ritual / Barbara Elizabeth Gordon -- Cajun foodways / C. Paige Gutierrez -- The Cajun culture of southwestern Louisiana / David Julian Hodges -- Cultural summary: Cajuns / John Beierle -- The Cajuns / William Faulkner Rushton -- Cajun music / Ann Allen Savoy -- Cajun French and French creole ; Speech in a Louisiana Cajun community / Dorice Tentchoff. |
| Abstract |
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. |
| General note | Title from Web page (viewed Mar. 24, 2008). |
| General note | This portion of eHRAF world cultures was first released in 1995. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
