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Indigenous ways to the present : native whaling in the Western Arctic / edited by Allen P. McCartney.

McCartney, Allen P. (Added Author). Canadian Circumpolar Institute. (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 189644525X (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9781896445250 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: vi, 432 p. (3 folded) : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Edmonton : Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press, c2003.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Co-published by the University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Environment and environmental change in the western arctic and subarctic : implications for whaling / John C. Dixon -- Re-examining Wales's role in Bering Strait prehistory : some preliminary results of recent work / Roger K. Harrit -- A paleo-geographic preface to the origins of whaling : cold is better / Owen K. Mason and Valerie Barber -- Ekven--a prehistoric whale hunters settlement on the Asian shore of Bering Strait / Yvon Csonka -- Secular dynamics of the prehistoric catch and the population size of Baleen whales off the Chukchi peninsula, Siberia as based upon the study of historical whale bone from ancient coastal cities / Lev G. Dinesman and Arcady B. Savinetsky -- Prehistoric Bowhead whaling in the Bering Strait and Chukchi Sea regions of Alaska : A zooarchaeological assessment / James M. Savelle and Allen P. McCartney -- Ancient whaling and the biogeography of bowhead and grey whales / Howard W. Braham -- The bowhead whale off Chukotka : integration of scientific and traditional knowledge / Lyudmila S. Bogoslovskaya -- Some observations on the influence of environmental conditions on the success of hunting bowhead whales of Barrow, Alaska / John C. George ... [et al.] -- Fall whaling in Barrow, Alaska : a consideration of strategic decision-making / Barbara Bodenhorn -- When whaling folks celebrate : a comparison of tradition and experience in two Bering Strait whaling communities / Carol Zane Jolles -- Festival and tradition : the whaling festival at Point Hope / Mary A. Larson -- 'Story of a whale hunt' : Suzanne Rognon Bernardis photographs and observations of Iñupiaq whaling, Wales, Alaska, 1901-1902 / Susan W. Fair -- Eskimo laborers : John Kelly's commercial shore whaling station, Point Belcher, Alaska, 1891-1892 -- Whaling : indigenous ways to the present / Herbert O. Anungazuk.
Subject:
Whaling > Arctic regions.
Inuit > Hunting > Alaska.
Inuit > Alaska > Social life and customs.
Baleines > Chasse > Arctique.
Inuit > Chasse > Alaska.
Inuit > Alaska > Moeurs et coutumes.
Walvisvangst.
Eskimo's.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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