Anthropological Survey in Alaska

Anthropological Survey in Alaska
Author: Aleš Hrdlička
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2022-07-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This work presents a report of the anthropological survey conducted in the largest state of the USA, Alaska. The author includes several details on human behavior, cultures, and societies in Alaska in the present and past. In addition, he makes enlightening observations on the patterns of behavior, cultural meaning, norms and values of the people of Alaska.

Telling Our Selves

Telling Our Selves
Author: Chase Hensel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 1996-11-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0195344677

In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing. Although ethnicity is overtly constructed in terms of either/or categories, the discourse of Bethel residents suggests that their actual concern is less with whether one is native or non-native, than with how native one is in a given context. In the interweaving of subsistence practices and subsistence discourse, ethnicity is constantly recreated.

The Foragers of Point Hope

The Foragers of Point Hope
Author: Charles E. Hilton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2014-07-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1139992104

On the edge of the Arctic Ocean, above the Arctic Circle, the prehistoric settlements at Point Hope, Alaska, represent a truly remarkable accomplishment in human biological and cultural adaptations. Presenting a set of anthropological analyses on the human skeletal remains and cultural material from the Ipiutak and Tigara archaeological sites, The Foragers of Point Hope sheds new light on the excavations from 1939–41, which provided one of the largest sets of combined biological and cultural materials of northern latitude peoples in the world. A range of material items indicated successful human foraging strategies in this harsh Arctic environment. They also yielded enigmatic artifacts indicative of complex human cultural life filled with dense ritual and artistic expression. These remnants of past human activity contribute to a crucial understanding of past foraging lifeways and offer important insights into the human condition at the extreme edges of the globe.