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Book The Eskimos of Bering Strait  1650 1898

Download or read book The Eskimos of Bering Strait 1650 1898 written by Dorothy Jean Ray and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study details cross-cultural contacts in the area and Eskimo culture as it evolved during this 250-year period.

Book In a Far Country

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  • Author : John Taliaferro
  • Publisher : Public Affairs
  • Release : 2007-11-13
  • ISBN : 1586485083
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book In a Far Country written by John Taliaferro and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The awesome, untold adventure of one couple's harrowing, heroic effort to save several hundred ice-bound whalers-- and the future of the Eskimo people

Book The Opening of the Maritime Fur Trade at Bering Strait

Download or read book The Opening of the Maritime Fur Trade at Bering Strait written by John R. Bockstoce and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makes a significant contribution to our knowledge of the early maritime trade in the northern Pacific in general, & in the Bering Strait area in particular. The maritime fur trade was an important commercial force in the Bering Strait region from the early 19th cent. until the outbreak of WW2; nevertheless, its origins are not well understood. But two important documents shed considerable light on the genesis of this trade. These manuscripts describe the voyages of the Amer. trading brigs "Gen. San Martin" & "Pedler" in 1819-20. They provide info. on the relationships that existed between the Amer. maritime traders & the Russian officials in Kamchatka & Alaska, as well as with the inhab. of the Bering Strait region in the first qtr. of the 19th cent. Illustrations.

Book Diamond Jenness Collections from Bering Strait

Download or read book Diamond Jenness Collections from Bering Strait written by David A. Morrison and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1926 Diamond Jenness began the first systematic archaeological work in Alaska at Cape Prince of Wales and Little Diomede Island on Bering Strait. This resulted in the first identification of Old Bering Sea culture and determined the stratigraphic position of Thule culture in Alaska, laying the groundwork for later investigations by Collins, Giddings and others. This study examines the Bering Strait collections in the light of nearly 65 years of archaeological research in Alaska. Spanning nearly 2,000 years of Inuit prehistory, these collections are aesthetically magnificent and document the intensive cultural interaction across Bering Strait and between Yupik- and Inupiat-speaking people.

Book Social Life in Northwest Alaska

Download or read book Social Life in Northwest Alaska written by Ernest S. Burch and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark volume will stand for decades as one of the most comprehensive studies of a hunter-gatherer population ever written. In this third and final volume in a series on the early contact period Iñupiaq Eskimos of northwestern Alaska, Burch examines every topic of significance to hunter-gatherer research, ranging from discussions of social relationships and settlement structure to nineteenth-century material culture.

Book Early Inuit Studies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Igor Krupnik
  • Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
  • Release : 2016-02-16
  • ISBN : 1935623710
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book Early Inuit Studies written by Igor Krupnik and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 15 chronologically arranged papers is the first-ever definitive treatment of the intellectual history of Eskimology—known today as Inuit studies—the field of anthropology preoccupied with the origins, history, and culture of the Inuit people. The authors trace the growth and change in scholarship on the Inuit (Eskimo) people from the 1850s to the 1980s via profiles of scientists who made major contributions to the field and via intellectual transitions (themes) that furthered such developments. It presents an engaging story of advancement in social research, including anthropology, archaeology, human geography, and linguistics, in the polar regions. Essays written by American, Canadian, Danish, French, and Russian contributors provide for particular trajectories of research and academic tradition in the Arctic for over 130 years. Most of the essays originated as papers presented at the 18th Inuit Studies Conference hosted by the Smithsonian Institution in October 2012. Yet the book is an organized and integrated narrative; its binding theme is the diffusion of knowledge across disciplinary and national boundaries. A critical element to the story is the changing status of the Inuit people within each of the Arctic nations and the developments in national ideologies of governance, identity, and treatment of indigenous populations. This multifaceted work will resonate with a broad audience of social scientists, students of science history, humanities, and minority studies, and readers of all stripes interested in the Arctic and its peoples.

Book Thule Eskimo Culture

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  • Author : Allen Papin McCartney
  • Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
  • Release : 1979-01-01
  • ISBN : 1772820830
  • Pages : 610 pages

Download or read book Thule Eskimo Culture written by Allen Papin McCartney and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of a symposium devoted to Thule archaeology and related northern studies, held at the tenth annual meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association in Ottawa in 1977. The thirty-one papers range from Thule chronology and culture history, prehistoric-recent continuities, adaptation and climatological relationships, site interpretations, technology and art, human biology, to the history of archaeological development.

Book The Eskimo about Bering Strait

Download or read book The Eskimo about Bering Strait written by Edward William Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alliance and Conflict

Download or read book Alliance and Conflict written by Ernest S. Burch and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alliance and Conflict combines a richly descriptive study of intersocietal relations in early nineteenth-century Northwest Alaska with a bold theoretical treatise on the structure of the world system as it might have been in ancient times. Ernest S. Burch Jr. illuminates one aspect of the traditional lives of the I_upiaq Eskimos in unparalleled detail and depth. Basing his account on observations made by early Western explorers, interviews with Native historians, and archeological research, Burch describes the social boundaries and geographic borders formerly existing in Northwest Alaska and the various kinds of transactions that took place across them. These ranged from violence of the most brutal sort, at one extreme, to relations of peace and friendship, at the other. Burch argues that the international system he describes approximated in many respects the type of system existing all over the world before the development of agriculture. Based on that assumption, he presents a series of hypotheses about what the world system may have been like when it consisted entirely of hunter-gatherer societies and about how it became more centralized with the evolution of chiefdoms. ø Accounts of specific people, places, and events add an immediate, experiential dimension to the work, complementing its theoretical apparatus and sweeping narrative scope. Provocative and comprehensive, Alliance and Conflict is a definitive look at the greater world of Native peoples of Northwest Alaska.

Book Shared Lives of Humans and Animals

Download or read book Shared Lives of Humans and Animals written by Tuomas Räsänen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals are conscious beings that form their own perspective regarding the lifeworlds in which they exist, and according to which they act in relation to their species and other animals. In recent decades a thorough transformation in societal research has taken place, as many groups that were previously perceived as being passive or subjugated objects have become active subjects. This fundamental reassessment, first promoted by feminist and radical studies, has subsequently been followed by spatial and material turns that have brought non-human agency to the fore. In human–animal relations, despite a power imbalance, animals are not mere objects but act as agents. They shape our material world and our encounters with them influence the way we think about the world and ourselves. This book focuses on animal agency and interactions between humans and animals. It explores the reciprocity of human–animal relations and the capacity of animals to act and shape human societies. The chapters draw on examples from the Global North to explore how human life in modernity has been and is shaped by the sentience, autonomy, and physicality of various animals, particularly in landscapes where communities and wild animals exist in close proximity. It offers a timely contribution to animal studies, environmental geography, environmental history, and social science and humanities studies of the environment more broadly.

Book Challenging the Dichotomy

Download or read book Challenging the Dichotomy written by Les Field and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the Dichotomy explores how dichotomies regarding heritage dominate the discussions of ethics, practices, and institutions. Contributing authors underscore the challenge to the old paradigms from multiple forces. The case studies and discourses, both ethnographic and archaeological, arise from a wide variety of regional contexts and cultures.

Book Circumpolar Lives and Livelihood

Download or read book Circumpolar Lives and Livelihood written by Robert Jarvenpa and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Circumpolar Lives and Livelihood is a cross-cultural ethnoarchaeological study of the gendered nature of subsistence in northern hunter-gatherer-fisher societies. Based on field studies of four circumpolar societies, it documents the complexities of women?s and men?s involvement in food procurement, processing, and storage, and the relationship of such behaviors to the built landscape. Avoiding simplistic stereotypes of male and female roles, the framework of ?gendered landscapes? reveals the variability and flexibility of women?s and men?s actual lives in a manner useful for archaeological interpretations of hunter-foragers. Innovative in scope and design, this is the first study to employ a controlled, four-way, cross-cultural comparison of gender and subsistence. Members of an international team of anthropologists experienced in northern scholarship apply the same task-differentiation methodology in studies of Chipewyan hunter-fishers of Canada, Khanty hunter-fisher-herders of Western Siberia, S¾mi intensive reindeer herders of northwestern Finland, and I_upiaq maritime hunters of the Bering Strait of Alaska. This database on gender and subsistence is used to reassess one of the bedrock concepts in anthropology and social science: the sexual division of labor.

Book Alaska OCS  Outer Continental Shelf  Socioeconomic Studies Program  Prudhoe Bay Case Study  Technical Report B1 4  Beaufort Sea Region Petroleum Development Scenarios  Technical Report Executive Summary B1 6a  Beaufort Sea Region Man made Environment  Technical Report B1 8  Beaufort Sea Region Sociocultural Systems  Technical Report B1 9  Beaufort Sea Region Natural Physical Environment  Technical Report B1 10  Beaufort Sea Region Socioeconomic Baseline  Technical Report B1 11  Beaufort Sea Region Socioeconomic Baseline  Technical Report B1 11a  Anchorage Socioeconomic and Physical Baseline  Technical Report B1 12  Beaufort Sea Petroleum Development Scenarios  Impacts on Anchorage  Technical Report B1 13  Alyeska Fairbanks Case Study  Technical Report B1 14  Beaufort Sea Region Governance Study  Technical Report B1 16  Beaufort Sea Petroleum Development Scenarios  Economic and Demographic Impacts  Technical Report B1 18  Beaufort Sea Petroleum Development Scenarios  Man Made Environmental Impacts  Technical Report B1 19  Beaufort Sea Petroleum Development Scenarios  Transportation Impacts  Technical Report B1 20  Beaufort Sea Petroleum Development Scenarios  Natural Physical Environment Impacts  Technical Report B1 21  Beaufort Sea Petroleum Development Scenarios  Sociocultural Impacts  Technical Report B1 22  Beaufort Sea Petroleum Development Scenarios  Summary of Socioeconomic Impacts  Technical Report B1 23  Second Program Summary Report  Technical Report B1 25  Developing Predictors of Community and Population Change  Technical Report B1 26  Socioeconomic Impacts of Selected Foreign OCS  Outer Continental Shelf  Development  Technical Report B1 28  Lower Cook Inlet Petroleum Development Scenarios  Commercial Fishing Industry Analysis  Technical Report B1  Bering Norton Petroleum Development Scenarios  Economic and Demographic Analysis  Technical Report B12 Bering Norton Petroleum Development Scenarios  Sociocultural Systems Analysis  Technical Report B1 54 v 1   Monitoring Oil Exploration Activities in the Lower Cook Inlet  Technical Report B17 Small Community Population Impact Model  Special Report B2 4  BLM Studies  Reference Papers B3 1  Physical Characteristics  Reference Papers B3 2  Biotic Resources  Reference Papers B3 3  Economic Development  Reference Papers B3 4  Sociological Resources  Reference Papers B3 5  Marine Food Web  Reference Papers B3 6  Oil and Gas Operations  Reference Papers B3 7  Policy Requirements and Controls  Reference Papers B3 8  Energy Alernatives  Reference Papers B3 9  Bering Sea Norton Sound Petroleum Development Scenarios  Forecast of Conditions Without the Planned Lease Sale  Impact Analysis B4  Bering Sea Cultural Resources  Technical Paper

Download or read book Alaska OCS Outer Continental Shelf Socioeconomic Studies Program Prudhoe Bay Case Study Technical Report B1 4 Beaufort Sea Region Petroleum Development Scenarios Technical Report Executive Summary B1 6a Beaufort Sea Region Man made Environment Technical Report B1 8 Beaufort Sea Region Sociocultural Systems Technical Report B1 9 Beaufort Sea Region Natural Physical Environment Technical Report B1 10 Beaufort Sea Region Socioeconomic Baseline Technical Report B1 11 Beaufort Sea Region Socioeconomic Baseline Technical Report B1 11a Anchorage Socioeconomic and Physical Baseline Technical Report B1 12 Beaufort Sea Petroleum Development Scenarios Impacts on Anchorage Technical Report B1 13 Alyeska Fairbanks Case Study Technical Report B1 14 Beaufort Sea Region Governance Study Technical Report B1 16 Beaufort Sea Petroleum Development Scenarios Economic and Demographic Impacts Technical Report B1 18 Beaufort Sea Petroleum Development Scenarios Man Made Environmental Impacts Technical Report B1 19 Beaufort Sea Petroleum Development Scenarios Transportation Impacts Technical Report B1 20 Beaufort Sea Petroleum Development Scenarios Natural Physical Environment Impacts Technical Report B1 21 Beaufort Sea Petroleum Development Scenarios Sociocultural Impacts Technical Report B1 22 Beaufort Sea Petroleum Development Scenarios Summary of Socioeconomic Impacts Technical Report B1 23 Second Program Summary Report Technical Report B1 25 Developing Predictors of Community and Population Change Technical Report B1 26 Socioeconomic Impacts of Selected Foreign OCS Outer Continental Shelf Development Technical Report B1 28 Lower Cook Inlet Petroleum Development Scenarios Commercial Fishing Industry Analysis Technical Report B1 Bering Norton Petroleum Development Scenarios Economic and Demographic Analysis Technical Report B12 Bering Norton Petroleum Development Scenarios Sociocultural Systems Analysis Technical Report B1 54 v 1 Monitoring Oil Exploration Activities in the Lower Cook Inlet Technical Report B17 Small Community Population Impact Model Special Report B2 4 BLM Studies Reference Papers B3 1 Physical Characteristics Reference Papers B3 2 Biotic Resources Reference Papers B3 3 Economic Development Reference Papers B3 4 Sociological Resources Reference Papers B3 5 Marine Food Web Reference Papers B3 6 Oil and Gas Operations Reference Papers B3 7 Policy Requirements and Controls Reference Papers B3 8 Energy Alernatives Reference Papers B3 9 Bering Sea Norton Sound Petroleum Development Scenarios Forecast of Conditions Without the Planned Lease Sale Impact Analysis B4 Bering Sea Cultural Resources Technical Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anguyiim Nalliini Time of Warring

Download or read book Anguyiim Nalliini Time of Warring written by Ann Fienup-Riordan and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on little-known oral histories from the Yup’ik people of southwest Alaska to detail a period of bow-and-arrow warfare that took place in the region between 1300 and 1800. The result of more than thirty years of research, discussion, and field recordings involving more than one hundred Yup’ik men and women, Anguyiim Nalliini tells a story not just of war and violence, but also of its cultural context—the origins of place names, the growth of indigenous architectural practices, the personalities of prominent warriors and leaders, and the eventual establishment of peaceful coexistence. The book is presented in bilingual format, with facing-page translations, and it will be hailed as a landmark work in the study of Alaska Native history and anthropology.

Book Ublasaun

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. National Park Service. Alaska System Support Office
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 154 pages

Download or read book Ublasaun written by United States. National Park Service. Alaska System Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official government publication contains essays and photographs describing the people and their environment in Alaska's Seward Peninsula. Also tells the story of the Bering Land Bridge, which once connected Asia and North America.

Book Yupik Transitions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Igor Krupnik
  • Publisher : University of Alaska Press
  • Release : 2013-11-15
  • ISBN : 1602232172
  • Pages : 425 pages

Download or read book Yupik Transitions written by Igor Krupnik and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Siberian Yupik people have endured centuries of change and repression, starting with the Russian Cossacks in 1648 and extending into recent years. The twentieth century brought especially formidable challenges, including forced relocation by Russian authorities and a Cold War “ice curtain” that cut off the Yupik people on the mainland region of Chukotka from those on St. Lawrence Island. Yet throughout all this, the Yupik have managed to maintain their culture and identity. Igor Krupnik and Michael Chlenov spent more than thirty years studying this resilience through original fieldwork. In Yupik Transitions, they present a compelling portrait of a tenacious people and place in transition—an essential portrait as the fast pace of the newest century threatens to erase their way of life forever.