Ethnohistory In The Arctic

Author : Dorothy Jean Ray
Publisher : Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnohistory in the Arctic written by Dorothy Jean Ray and published by Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of articles, some of which have been previously published, on the history and culture of Inuit in the Bering Strait area of Alaska. Includes account of the Vasil'ev-Shishmareii expedition of 1819-22.

Author : Norman Allee Chance
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iñupiat and Arctic Alaska written by Norman Allee Chance and published by Wadsworth Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the social, economic and political conditions of the Inupiat people of the north slope area of Alaska covers their history, traditions and adaptation to current industrial activity such as oil explorations, with a case study of the village of Kaktovik.

Author : Yuri Slezkine
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501703307
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arctic Mirrors written by Yuri Slezkine and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. "They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests," reported a fifteenth-century tale. "They rove around, live of their own free will, and beat the Russian people," complained a seventeenth-century Cossack. "Their actions are exceedingly rude. They do not take off their hats and do not bow to each other," huffed an eighteenth-century scholar. They are "children of nature" and "guardians of ecological balance," rhapsodized early nineteenth-century and late twentieth-century romantics. Even the Bolsheviks, who categorized the circumpolar foragers as "authentic proletarians," were repeatedly puzzled by the "peoples from the late Neolithic period who, by virtue of their extreme backwardness, cannot keep up either economically or culturally with the furious speed of the emerging socialist society."Whether described as brutes, aliens, or endangered indigenous populations, the so-called small peoples of the north have consistently remained a point of contrast for speculations on Russian identity and a convenient testing ground for policies and images that grew out of these speculations. In Arctic Mirrors, a vividly rendered history of circumpolar peoples in the Russian empire and the Russian mind, Yuri Slezkine offers the first in-depth interpretation of this relationship. No other book in any language links the history of a colonized non-Russian people to the full sweep of Russian intellectual and cultural history. Enhancing his account with vintage prints and photographs, Slezkine reenacts the procession of Russian fur traders, missionaries, tsarist bureaucrats, radical intellectuals, professional ethnographers, and commissars who struggled to reform and conceptualize this most "alien" of their subject populations.Slezkine reconstructs from a vast range of sources the successive official policies and prevailing attitudes toward the northern peoples, interweaving the resonant narratives of Russian and indigenous contemporaries with the extravagant images of popular Russian fiction. As he examines the many ironies and ambivalences involved in successive Russian attempts to overcome northern—and hence their own—otherness, Slezkine explores the wider issues of ethnic identity, cultural change, nationalist rhetoric, and not-so European colonialism.

Author : Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584651192
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing on Ice written by Vilhjalmur Stefansson and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1906 and 1918, anthropologist and explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson went on three long expeditions to the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic. He wrote voluminously about his travels and observations, as did others. Stefansson's fame was partly fueled by a series of controversies involving envious competitors in the race for public recognition. While many anthropological works refer to his writings and he continues to be cited in ethnographic and historical works on indigenous peoples of the North American Arctic, particularly the Inuit, his successes in exploration (the discovery and mapping of some of the last remaining land on earth) have overshadowed his anthropological work. Writing on Ice utilizes his extensive fieldwork diaries, now in Dartmouth's Special Collections, and contemporary photographs and sketches, some never before published, to bring to life the anthropology of the Arctic explorer. Gísli Pálsson situates the diaries in the context of that era's anthropological practice, early 20th-century expeditionary power relations, and the North American community surrounding Stefansson. He also examines the tension between the rhetoric of ethnography and exploration (the notion of the "friendly Arctic") and the reality of fieldwork and exploration, partly with reference to Stefansson's silence about his Inuit family.

Author : Lydia Black
Publisher : Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atka written by Lydia Black and published by Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the ethnographic history of the Aleuts up to 1867, the end of the period of Russian-American Company rule.

Author : Robin Inglis
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810864061
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America written by Robin Inglis and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America tells of the heroic endeavors and remarkable achievements, the endless speculation about a northwest passage, and the fighting and manipulation for commercial advantage that surrounded this terrain. This is done through an introductory essay, a detailed chronology, an extensive bibliography, modern maps and selected historical maps and drawings, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries.

Author : T. Max Friesen
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816502447
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Worlds Collide written by T. Max Friesen and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inuvialuit region is the most under-reported and least-known portion of the North American Arctic, beyond its immediate community of anthropological/archaeological practitioners, and this book helps address that lacuna.

Author : Mark Nuttall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136786805
Total Pages : 2306 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Arctic written by Mark Nuttall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-23 with total page 2306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With detailed essays on the Arctic's environment, wildlife, climate, history, exploration, resources, economics, politics, indigenous cultures and languages, conservation initiatives and more, this Encyclopedia is the only major work and comprehensive reference on this vast, complex, changing, and increasingly important part of the globe. Including 305 maps. This Encyclopedia is not only an interdisciplinary work of reference for all those involved in teaching or researching Arctic issues, but a fascinating and comprehensive resource for residents of the Arctic, and all those concerned with global environmental issues, sustainability, science, and human interactions with the environment.

Author : T. Max Friesen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199766959
Total Pages : 1001 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Christopher J. Turnbull
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 1772820636
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the Arrow Lakes, Southeastern British Columbia written by Christopher J. Turnbull and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological and ethnohistoric evidence is presented to conclude that the Arrow Lakes region of southeastern British Columbia has been an integrated part of the Columbia plateau for at least 3,300 years.