Anthropology of the North Pacific rim

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Anthropology of the North Pacific rim / edited by William W. Fitzhugh and Valérie Chaussonnet.

Fitzhugh, William W., 1943- (Added Author). Chaussonnet, Valérie. (Added Author).

Summary:

Collection of 23 papers on the traditional cultures of the coastal and island peoples of northeastern Siberia and northwestern North America and the Bering Strait region.

Record details

ISBN: 1560982020
ISBN: 9781560982029
Physical Description: xix, 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1994.

Content descriptions

General Note:: "The essays in this volume were presented at a symposium held at the opening of the joint Soviet, American, and Canadian exhibition, 'Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska, ' September 22-23, 1988, at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:: Research history and American-Asian links -- Crossroads of continents : review and prospect / William W. Fitzhugh -- American-Asian ties as reflected in Athapaskan material culture / Galina I. Dzeniskevich -- The Jesup North Pacific expedition : a history of Russian-American cooperation / Liudmila P. Kuz'mina -- Collections of the native peoples of the Russian northeast in the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography / Elena A. Mikhailova -- The paleolithic of Kamchatka and Chukotka and the problem of the peopling of America / Nikolai N. Dikov -- New dental anthropological observations relevant to the human population system of the Greater Beringian Realm / Christy G. Turner II -- Symbol and object : complexity in North Pacific cultures -- The bleeding coat : the art of North Pacific ritual clothing / Valerie Chaussonnet, Bernadette Driscoll -- Deciphering Aleut/Koniag iconography / Lydia T. Black -- Qasqiluteng : feasting and ceremonialism among the traditional Koniag of Kodiak Island, Alaska / Richard H. Jordan.

Eskimo masks from Kodiak Island in the collections of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in St. Petersburg / Roza G. Liapunova -- Traditional choreographic art of northeastern Siberia / Mariia Ia. Zhornitskaia -- Koniag Eskimo poisoned-dart whaling / Aron Crowell -- Watercraft in the North Pacific : a comparative view / Jean-Loup Rousselot -- Canoes of the northwest coast / Bill Holm -- Social structure of the peoples of northeastern Asia / Vladimir I. Vasil'ev -- Traditional culture of the peoples of the Russian Pacific coast / Chuner M. Taksami -- Beads at the crossroads of continents / Peter Francis, Jr. -- Interactions : trade, war, and peace -- Interethnic ties in far northeastern Siberia / Il'ia S. Gurvich -- Eskimo war and peace / Ann Fienup-Riordan -- Aleut in the Kurile Islands : 1820-1870 / Valerii O. Shubin -- Recent ethnic processes among the peoples of the Russian Pacific coast / Zoia P. Sokolova -- Historical background and modern trends in native Russian bilingualism among Siberian native peoples / Sergei A. Aruiunov, Vladimir I. Vasil'ev -- Crossroads? A twentieth-century history of contacts.