The Cultural And Natural Heritage Of Northwest Alaska
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The Cultural and Natural Heritage of Northwest Alaska. Volume 1: Geology
Author | : Ernest S. Burch (Jr.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Earth (Planet) |
ISBN | : |
Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage
Author | : Aron A. Crowell |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Institution |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2010-05-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1588342700 |
Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska features more than 200 objects representing the masterful artistry and design traditions of twenty Alaska Native peoples. Based on a collaborative exhibition created by Alaska Native communities, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, and the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, this richly illustrated volume celebrates both the long-awaited return of ancestral treasures to their native homeland and the diverse cultures in which they were created. Despite the North's transformation through globalizing change, the objects shown in these pages are interpretable within ongoing cultural frames, articulated in languges still spoken. They were made for a way of life on the land that is carried on today throughout Alaska. Dialogue with the region's First Peoples evokes past meanings but focuses equally on contemporary values, practices, and identities. Objects and narratives show how each Alaska Native nation is unique—and how all are connected. After introductions to the history of the land and its people, universal themes of “Sea, Land, Rivers,” “Family and Community,” and “Ceremony and Celebration” are explored referencing exquisite masks, parkas, beaded garments, basketry, weapons, and carvings that embody the diverse environments and practices of their makers. Accompanied by traditional stories and personal accounts by Alaska Native elders, artists, and scholars, each piece featured in Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage evokes both historical and contemporary meaning, and breathes the life of its people.
Contributions to Anthropology
Author | : Edwin S Hall |
Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1772820466 |
This volume consists of a series of papers that examine various aspects, archaeological and ethnographic, of the interior Inuit and their neighbours of northern Alaska
Alliance and Conflict
Author | : Ernest S. Burch |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0803262388 |
Alliance and Conflict combines a richly descriptive study of intersocietal relations in early nineteenth-century Northwest Alaska with a bold theoretical treatise on the structure of the world system as it might have been in ancient times. Ernest S. Burch Jr. illuminates one aspect of the traditional lives of the I_upiaq Eskimos in unparalleled detail and depth. Basing his account on observations made by early Western explorers, interviews with Native historians, and archeological research, Burch describes the social boundaries and geographic borders formerly existing in Northwest Alaska and the various kinds of transactions that took place across them. These ranged from violence of the most brutal sort, at one extreme, to relations of peace and friendship, at the other. Burch argues that the international system he describes approximated in many respects the type of system existing all over the world before the development of agriculture. Based on that assumption, he presents a series of hypotheses about what the world system may have been like when it consisted entirely of hunter-gatherer societies and about how it became more centralized with the evolution of chiefdoms. ø Accounts of specific people, places, and events add an immediate, experiential dimension to the work, complementing its theoretical apparatus and sweeping narrative scope. Provocative and comprehensive, Alliance and Conflict is a definitive look at the greater world of Native peoples of Northwest Alaska.
Crossroads Alaska
Author | : Valérie Chaussonnet |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Books (DC) |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Presenting artifacts from several local communities on both sides of the Bering Strait, Crossroads Alaska focuses on toys and small objects used in teaching traditional crafts. Published with the Smithsonian Institution Arctic Studies Center.