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Language: English
Published by University of Utah Press / CCI Press, Salt Lake City / Edmonton, 2003
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vi + 432 pp, editor's note, list of 22 contributors, 15 treatise essay papers by contributors. each paper with abstract, introduction, figures, tables. references, Several fold-out charts are bound in. Anthropology of Pacific North America - including Alaska. Bering Straits, etc., including extensive data collected by expert scientists. Two line rubber stamp on ffep, else unmarked pages throughout. Wraps with very minor signs of handling wear to foreedges, binding tight. 6.75" x 9.75" multicolored illustrated wrappers. Size: Octavo.
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- Title
- Indigenous Ways to the Present : Native Whaling in the Western Arctic
- Author
- McCartney, Allen P. - Editor
- Publisher
- University of Utah Press / CCI Press, Salt Lake City / Edmonton
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0874808146
- ISBN 13
- 9780874808148
- Edition
- First Trade Paperback.
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- ANTHROPOLOGY
The traditional pursuit of whales by Eskimo hunters, which continues to be practiced, is an activity in which humans interact directly with nature. To present-day urban dwellers, such association between people, animals, and the environment may seem exotic. But for the IÑupiat and Yupik peoples these relationships are important, vital pursuits.
A co-publication project with the Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press of the University of Alberta, this volume traces regional native whaling practices for the past 2,000 years. Contributions center on three themes: variation in whaling practices, Yupik and IÑupiat whaling traditions over time, and interactions with changing environmental conditions that include major climatic episodes as well as shorter perturbations. Emphasis is placed on the diversity of approaches to subsistence whaling. While the majority of contributions result from NSF-funded research, several other contributors are ethnographers and archaeologists who have carried out whale research in Alaska for many years. Also included are essays presenting Russian research along the western margin of the Bering Strait and the Bering and Chukchi seas.
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About the Author
Allen P. McCartney (1940–2004) was professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas.
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