Inupiaq Eskimo Nations of Northwest Alaska

von Ernest Burch

473 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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 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.

• Reihe: University of Alaska Press
• ISBN: 9780912006963
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.1998
• Größe: 262 x 184 mm
• Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of UP Colorado