The Inupiaq Eskimo Nations Of Northwest Alaska

Author : Ernest S. Burch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( 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 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what distinguished anthropologist James VanStone has described as "a superb example of salvage ethnography," The Inupiaq Eskimo Nations of Northwest Alaska presents a social geography of this far corner of the continent as it was during the early historic period. Author Ernest S. Burch, Jr., who has studied the area for over thirty years, contends that the Inupiaq Eskimos of northwest Alaska were organized into several autonomous societies equivalent to nations as we think of them today, but at the hunter-gatherer level of complexity. This book is a clearly written introduction to these tiny nations; it is based primarily on information the author was given by the last generation of Inupiaq elders born while oral narrative still was the primary form of historical record for their societies. The book emphasizes the identity of the nations in the region, their locations in space and time, and the numbers, lifeways, general distribution, and seasonal movements of their members. The discussion of each district includes brief summaries of previous research done there and accounts of how each nation met its demise during the second half of the nineteenth century. The work presents a substantial body of information that has never been published in book form before, and that can never be acquired again. It will endure as a major connecting link between archeological and historical research in northwest Alaska, and thus is of critical importance to understanding long-term social change in the region.

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 : Ernest S. Burch
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803262388
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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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 405 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.

Author : Jean Craighead George
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062429744
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Julie of the Wolves written by Jean Craighead George and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrilling Newbery Medal–winning classic about a girl lost on the Alaskan tundra and how she survives with the help of a wolf pack. Julie of the Wolves is a staple in the canon of children’s literature and the first in the Julie trilogy. The survival theme makes it a good pick for readers of wilderness adventures such as My Side of the Mountain, Hatchet, or Island of the Blue Dolphins. To her small village, she is known as Miyax; to her friend in San Francisco, she is Julie. When her life in the village becomes dangerous, Miyax runs away, only to find herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness. Miyax tries to survive by copying the ways of a pack of wolves and soon grows to love her new wolf family. Life in the wilderness is a struggle, but when she finds her way back to civilization, Miyax is torn between her old and new lives. Is she the Miyax of her human village—or Julie of the wolves? Don't miss any of the books in Jean Craighead George's groundbreaking series: Julie of the Wolves, Julie, and Julie's Wolf Pack.

Author : William L. Iggiagruk Hensley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374154844
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty Miles from Tomorrow written by William L. Iggiagruk Hensley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the author's traditional childhood north of the Arctic Circle, his education in the continental U.S., and his lobbying efforts that convinced the government to allocate resources to Alaska's natives in compensation for incursions on their way of life.

Author : Nick Jans
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 0882408992
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Place Beyond written by Nick Jans and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Place Beyond, Nick Jans leads us into his “found” home—the Eskimo village of Ambler, Alaska, and the vast wilderness around it. In his powerful essays, the rhythms of daily arctic life blend with high adventure—camping among wolves, traveling with Iñupiat hunters, witnessing the Kobuk River at breakup. The poignancy of a village funeral comes to life, hordes of mosquitoes whine against a tent, a grizzly stands etched against the snow—just a sampling of the images and events rendered in Jan’s transparent, visual prose. Moments of humor are offset by haunting insights, and by thoughtful reflections on contemporary Iñupiat culture, making A Place Beyond a book to savor.

Author : Ernest S. Burch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781602232143
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iñupiaq Ethnohistory written by Ernest S. Burch and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It took more than a century for colonialism to reach Alaska after the first Europeans set foot in what would become the continental United States. The complex society of the Iñupiaq, settled at the very top of the world, remained unknown and undisturbed longer than many other Native tribes in America. Ernest S. Burch Jr. dedicated most of his life and career to understanding this precolonial period and the lives of Northwest Alaska Natives. Iñupiaq Ethnohistory finally collects in one place Burch's critical research in this area, bringing to light work that had once been buried in scholarly books or scattered across journals. It is a fascinating and accessible window into a now-vanished world.

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 : 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.

Author : Nancy Bonvillain
Publisher : Chelsea House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inuit written by Nancy Bonvillain and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 1995 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history, culture, and current situation of the Inuit peoples of the Arctic regions.