Publication |
Great Britain, Greenwood Press, 2000.
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Description |
278pRed Spine
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Series |
Endangered Peoples Of The World
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Summary/Abstract |
Examines the threats to cultural survival of 14 groups of peoples of the arctic regions in Russia, Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Norway, and Finland, as well as their political, cultural, and economic responses to the threat. Each chapter also discusses the ecological settings, subsistence strategies, social and political organizations, religions and world views of such groups as the Inuits, the James Bay Cree, the Evenkis of Central Siberia, and the Whaler Northern Norway.
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Contents |
1 The Aleuts of the Pribilof islands, Alaska - Helen D. Corbett and Susanne M. Swibold
2 The Chukchi and Siberian Yupiit of the Russian Far East - Peter P. Schweitzer and Patty A. Gray
3 The Cree of James Bay, Quebec, Canada - Harvey A. Feit
4 The Evenkis of central Siberia - David G. Anderson
5 The Innu of Labrador, Canada - Adrian Tanner
6 The Inuit of Nunavut, Canada - Bruce Rigby, John MacDonald, and Leah Otak
7 The sheep-farming Kujataamiut of South Greenland - Rasmus Ole Rasmussen
8 The Inupiat of Alaska - Barbara Bodenhorn
9 The Isertormeeq of East Greenland - Grete K. Hovelsrud-Broda
10 The Kalaallit of West Greenland - Richard A. Caulfield
11 The Kaska of Canada of Canada - Patrick Moore
12 The whalers of Lofoten, northern Norway - Arne Kalland
13 The Saami - Hugh Beach
14 The Yupiit of western Alaska - Anne Fienup-Riordan
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Standard Number |
0313306494 Hb.
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