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The Eskimos

By: Ernest S. Burch

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The Eskimos

By: Ernest S. Burch

Describes the culture, religion, and daily life of the Eskimos, explains their family and community relationships, and looks at tools, masks, clothings, and carvings

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University of Oklahoma Press

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ISBN 10

0806121262

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9780806121260

Social Life in Northwest Alaska

The Structure of Iñupiaq Eskimo Nations

By: Ernest S. Burch

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Social Life in Northwest Alaska

The Structure of Iñupiaq Eskimo Nations

By: Ernest S. Burch

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.

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474

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University of Alaska Press

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1889963925

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9781889963921

Alliance and Conflict

The World System of the In?piaq Eskimos

By: Ernest S. Burch

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Alliance and Conflict

The World System of the In?piaq Eskimos

By: Ernest S. Burch

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.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803262388

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9780803262386

Caribou Herds of Northwest Alaska, 1850-2000

By: Ernest S. Burch Jr.

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Caribou Herds of Northwest Alaska, 1850-2000

By: Ernest S. Burch Jr.

In his final, major publication Ernest S. “Tiger” Burch Jr. reconstructs the distribution of caribou herds in northwest Alaska using data and information from research conducted over the past several decades as well as sources that predate western science by more than one hundred years. Additionally, he explores human and natural factors that contributed to the demise and recovery of caribou and reindeer populations during this time. Burch provides an exhaustive list of published and unpublished literature and interviews that will intrigue laymen and experts alike. The unflinching assessment of the roles that humans and wolves played in the dynamics of caribou and reindeer herds will undoubtedly strike a nerve. Supplemental essays before and after the unfinished work add context about the author, the project of the book, and the importance of both.

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University of Alaska Press

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160223180X

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9781602231801

Alliance and Conflict

The World System of the In?piaq Eskimos

By: Ernest S. Burch

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The World System of the In?piaq Eskimos

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803213468

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9780803213463

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The Eskimos

The Eskimos

Social Life in Northwest Alaska

Social Life in Northwest Alaska

Alliance and Conflict

Alliance and Conflict

Caribou Herds of Northwest Alaska, 1850-2000

Caribou Herds of Northwest Alaska, 1850-2000

Alliance and Conflict

Alliance and Conflict

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