Download or read book Prehistoric Eskimo Ivories written by Allen Wardwell and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait written by Allen Wardwell and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1986 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gifts from the Ancestors written by William W. Fitzhugh and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The appearance during the first millennium A.D. of small, exquisitely carved artifacts of walrus ivory in the Bering Strait region marks the beginning of an extraordinary florescence in the art and culture of North America. The discovery in the 1930s and 1940s of world-class carvings of animals, mythical beasts, shape-shifting creatures, masks, and human figurines astounded scholars and excited collectors. Nevertheless, the extraordinary objects that belong to this fascinating, sometimes frightening, world of hunting-related art remain largely unknown. Gifts from the Ancestors examines ancient ivories from the coast of Bering Strait, western Alaska, and the islands in between--illuminating their sophisticated formal aesthetic, cultural complexity, and individual histories. Many of the pieces discussed are from recent Russian excavations and are presented here for the first time in English; others are from private collections not usually open to the public. The essays, written by an international group of scholars, adopt a refreshing interdisciplinary approach that gives voice to the various competing, and now sometimes cooperating, stakeholders, including Native groups, museums, archaeologists, art historians, art dealers, and private collectors.
Download or read book Eskimo Prehistory written by Hans-Georg Bandi and published by London : Methuen. This book was released on 1969 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ancient Culture of the Bering Sea and the Eskimo Problem written by Henry N. Michael and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1961-12-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original work, in Russian, appeared in 1947 and is still regarded as an important contribution to knowledge of the early history of the Eskimo. This translation makes available in English the results of archaeological research in a significant area, the extreme northeast of continental Asia, and the data reported are a valuable addition to previous information on the ethnology, linguistics and physical anthropology of the peoples of the Arctic. In particular this book reports investigations made by the author on the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula from the village of Uwelen in the north to the village of Sirhenik in the south. This is volume I in a series Anthropology of the North: Translations from Russian Sources being sponsored by the Arctic Institute of North America.
Download or read book Arctic Art written by James G. E. Smith and published by New York, N.Y. : Museum of the American Indian. This book was released on 1980 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an exhibition of Eskimo ivory carvings held at the Museum of the American Indian. The carvings range in age from the first millennium B.C. to the 20th century.
Download or read book Prehistoric Art of the Alaskan Eskimo with 24 Plates written by Henry Bascom Collins and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian and Eskimo Artifacts of North America written by Charles Miles and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captioned photographs depict over 2,000 examples of North American native-made and used artifacts.
Download or read book Eskimo Prehistory written by Froelich Gladstone Rainey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1941 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Results of excavations on the Punuk Islands, Bering Sea, by Otto Geist in 1934.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic written by T. Max Friesen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its extreme climate, the North American Arctic holds a complex archaeological record of global significance. In this volume, leading researchers provide comprehensive coverage of the region's cultural history, addressing issues as diverse as climate change impacts on human societies, European colonial expansion, and hunter-gatherer adaptations and social organization.
Download or read book Prehistoric Art of the Alaskan Eskimo written by Henry Bascom Collins and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines written by Timothy Insoll and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines is the first text to offer a comparative survey of figurines from across the globe, bringing together myriad contemporary research approaches to provide invaluable insights into their function, context, meaning, and use, as well as past thinking on the human body, gender, and identity.
Download or read book Thule Eskimo Prehistory of Cumberland Sound Baffin Island Canada written by Peter Schledermann and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the prehistoric cultural development of the Thule Inuit tradition in southern Baffin Island and its relationship to the present inhabitants of the region.
Download or read book Prehistory of the Eastern Arctic written by Moreau S. Maxwell and published by Orlando [Fla.] ; Montreal : Academic Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to arrange in sequence descriptions of adaptive technologies, tactics and strategies devised by the prehistoric Eastern Arctic Eskimos over nearly a 4000 year period.
Download or read book An Exploration of Prehistoric Ontologies in the Bering Strait Region written by Feng Qu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to the belief and symbolism present in the prehistoric art of the Bering Strait region. For about a century, the archaeology of this area has mainly focused on material, economic, and technological perspectives, leaving studies of prehistoric spirituality, religion, and cosmology to be under-conceptualized. This text questions the nature of materiality, and the relationship between it and spirituality. It employs an analytical and methodological approach located within the frameworks of practice theory and animist ontologies to open up thought-provoking avenues for interpretive possibility. This book also provides new knowledge about the prehistoric material culture of ancient Inuit people, and offers an assessment of contemporary archaeological theories, such as cognitive archaeology, structural archaeology, and shamanism theory, in order to examine the reliability of these theories in the studies of prehistoric art. According to the ontological trend which has constituted a powerful challenge to traditional nature/culture and body/mind dichotomies, this book reconsiders prehistoric Inuit cultures, providing an analysis of therianthropic motifs on prehistoric ivories to explore potential shamanism within ontological and cosmological structures.
Download or read book Ancient Men of the Arctic written by James Louis Giddings and published by New York : Knopf. This book was released on 1967 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retrospective view of work in northwest Alaska by pioneer archaeologist; its relation to Eskimo prehistory.
Download or read book The First Book of Eskimos written by Benjamin Brewster and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short book is all about the Eskimo way of life, their language, culture, and so on. It was written for use in a classroom, so the language is simple and easy to understand. It was first published in the 1920s when few would have any knowledge of who the Eskimo people were.
