Social Life in Northwest Alaska: The Structure of Inupiaq Eskimo Nations - Softcover

Burch, Ernest

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1889963925 ISBN 13: 9781889963921

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2006

Synopsis

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 Inupiaq 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."

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About the Author:

Ernest S. Burch, Jr., is a historical ethnographer specializing in the study of northern peoples, especially those of northwestern Alaska and the central Canadian Subarctic. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has published extensively on the Inupiat, the Caribou Inuit, kinship, and hunter-gatherer social organization. His recent books include "The Inupiaq Eskimo Nations of Northwest Alaska" (University of Alaska Press 1998) and "Alliance and Conflict: The World System of the Inupiaq Eskimos "(2005). He is currently a research associate of the Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution."

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1889963925
• ISBN 13: 9781889963921
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496