Social Life In Northwest Alaska

Author : Ernest S. Burch
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1889963925
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Doug D. Anderson
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602233683
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life at Swift Water Place written by Doug D. Anderson and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a multidisciplinary study of the early contact period of Alaskan Native history that follows a major hunting and fishing Inupiaq group at a time of momentous change in their lifeways. The Amilgaqtau yaagmiut were the most powerful group in the Kobuk River area. But their status was forever transformed thanks to two major factors. They faced a food shortage prompted by the decline in caribou, one of their major foods. This was also the time when European and Asian trade items were first introduced into their traditional society. The first trade items to arrive, a decade ahead of the Europeans themselves, were glass beads and pieces of metal that the Inupiat expertly incorporated into their traditional implements. This book integrates ethnohistoric, bio-anthropological, archaeological, and oral historical analyses.

Author : Ernest S. Burch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iñupiaq Eskimo Nations of Northwest Alaska written by Ernest S. Burch and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burch, an independent social anthropologist and historian specializing in the study of the aboriginal peoples of northern North America, began his research on Northwest Alaska in 1960 and has made 22 field trips to the Arctic. This study of the 19th century history of 11 autonomous societies into which the hunter-gatherer Inupiaq Eskimos were once organized is based primarily on oral histories he obtained from tribal elders. Includes several maps and bandw photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Susan B. Andrews
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803259331
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Authentic Alaska written by Susan B. Andrews and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively and sometimes poignant collection of essays and autobiographies, nearly fifty Alaska Native writers tell of their unique way of life and bear witness to the sweeping cultural changes occurring in their lifetimes. They explore a range of experiences and issues, including skinning a polar bear; traditional domestic and subsistence practices; marriage customs; alcoholism; the challenges and opportunities of modern education; balancing traditional and contemporary demands; discrimination; adapting to urban life; the treatment of Native peoples in school textbooks; and the social realities of speaking standard and “village” English. With its fresh perspectives and unfailingly authentic voices, this collection is essential for an understanding of Alaska Native peoples today.

Author : John Borrows
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108493068
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Peoples and International Trade written by John Borrows and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of economic rights afforded Indigenous peoples in international law and their diffusion to international trade and investment instruments.

Author : Anthony Urvina
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602232946
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Than God Demands written by Anthony Urvina and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid, “thoughtful” account of the territorial government’s campaign to convert Alaska Natives and suppress their culture (Alaska History). Near the turn of the twentieth century, the territorial government of Alaska put its support behind a project led by Christian missionaries to convert Alaska Native peoples—and, along the way, bring them into “civilized” American citizenship. Establishing missions in a number of areas inhabited by Alaska Natives, the program was an explicit attempt to erase ten thousand years of Native culture and replace it with Christianity and an American frontier ethic. Anthony Urvina, whose mother was an orphan raised at one of the missions established as part of this program, draws on details from her life in order to present the first full history of this missionary effort. Smoothly combining personal and regional history, he tells the story of his mother’s experience amid a fascinating account of Alaska Native life and of the men and women who came to Alaska to spread the word of Christ, confident in their belief and unable to see the power of the ancient traditions they aimed to supplant

Author : Ronald Leroy Olson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Structure and Social Life of the Tlingit in Alaska written by Ronald Leroy Olson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Marino
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602232660
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground written by Elizabeth Marino and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground is an ethnographic account of the impacts of climate change in Shishmaref, Alaska. In this small Iupiaq community, flooding and erosion are forcing community members to consider relocation as the only possible solution for long-term safety. However, a tangled web of policy obstacles, lack of funding, and organizational challenges leaves the community without a clear way forward, creating serious questions of how to maintain cultural identity under the new climate regime. Elizabeth Marino analyzes this unique and grounded example of a warming world as a confluence of political injustice, histories of colonialism, global climate change, and contemporary development decisions. The book merges theoretical insights from disaster studies, political analysis, and passages from field notes into an eminently readable text for a wide audience. This is an ethnography of climate change; a glimpse into the lived experiences of a global phenomenon.

Author : Thomas G. Aylesworth
Publisher : Chelsea House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Northwest written by Thomas G. Aylesworth and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 1988 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history, geography, and people of each state are treated separately.

Author : Nobuhiro Kishigami
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811678103
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food Sharing in Human Societies written by Nobuhiro Kishigami and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores why human beings share food with others using a humanistic anthropological approach. This book provides a comparative examination of distinct features and historical changes in food-sharing practices in various hunting-gathering societies, especially in the Inuit. The author considers human nature through various human food-sharing practices. Food sharing is a characteristic of human behavior and has been one of the central topics in anthropological studies of hunter-gatherers for a long time. While anthropologists have attempted to understand it in functional, historical, adaptational, social, cultural, psychological, or phenomenological perspective, they have failed to convincingly explain its origin, variation, existence or/and change. Recently, evolutionary ecology or behavioral ecology has dominated research of the topic. However, neither of them adequately considers social, cultural and historical factors in the analysis of human food-sharing practices. This book is an essential and fundamental study for every researcher interested in the relationship between human nature, society and culture.