Social Life in Northwest Alaska: The Structure of Inupiaq Eskimo Nations by Burch, Ernest

Social Life in Northwest Alaska: The Structure of Inupiaq Eskimo Nations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781889963921)

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Social Life in Northwest Alaska: The Structure of Inupiaq Eskimo Nations by Burch, Ernest

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

$32.95
Social Life in Northwest Alaska: The Structure of Inupiaq Eskimo Nations by Burch, Ernest

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

$32.95
Format: Paperback
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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 I upiaq 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 Burch
ISBN-10: 1889963925
ISBN-13: 9781889963921
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2006
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.96h x 7.08w x 1.04d
By Ernest Burch
By Ernest Burch
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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 Ipiat, the Caribou Inuit, kinship, and hunter-gatherer social organization. His recent books include The Ipiaq Eskimo Nations of Northwest Alaska (University of Alaska Press 1998) and Alliance and Conflict: The World System of the Ipiaq Eskimos (2005). He is currently a research associate of the Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution.

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