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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 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.
Price: £27.95
Pages: 496
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Imprint: University of Alaska Press
Publication Date:
01 August 2006
Trim Size: 10.00 X 7.00 in
ISBN: 9781889963921
Format: Paperback
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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 Iñupiat, the Caribou Inuit, kinship, and hunter-gatherer social organization. His recent books include The Iñupiaq Eskimo Nations of Northwest Alaska (University of Alaska Press 1998) and Alliance and Conflict: The World System of the Iñupiaq Eskimos (2005). He is currently a research associate of the Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution.