Author: Franz BoasPublisher:
ISBN: 9780404116316
Category : Inuit
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Second Report on the Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay
Author: Franz BoasPublisher:
ISBN: 9780404116316
Category : Inuit
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Second Report on the Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay
Author: Franz BoasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baffin Island (Nunavut)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Thule Eskimo Prehistory along Northwestern Hudson Bay
Author: Allen Papin McCartneyPublisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772820687
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Ten Thule house ruins were excavated during 1968 and 1969 at Silumiut, Kamarvik, and Igluligardjuk, major winter settlements along Roes Welcome Sound and northwestern Hudson Bay. Radiocarbon dating places the occupation of these sites at the end of the twelveth century A.D. This work expands Mathiassen’s original investigation of Thule culture southward from Repulse Bay.
Second Report on the Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay
Author: Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada
Author: Material Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos
Author: Therkel MathiassenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Study of the Iglulingmiut, Aivilingmiut and Tununermiut Eskimos of Foxe Basin region: northern Baffin Island, Melville Peninsula.
American Anthropologist
Author: The Book of Unconformities
Author: Hugh RafflesPublisher: Verse Chorus Press
ISBN: 1891241745
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present. Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enters these gaps, drawing together threads of geology, history, literature, philosophy, and ethnography to trace the intimate connections between personal loss and world historical events, and to reveal the force of absence at the core of contemporary life. Through deeply researched explorations of Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan's Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived in New York City along with six Inuit adventurers in 1897, Raffles shows how unconformities unceasingly incite human imagination and investigation yet refuse to conform, heal, or disappear. A journey across eons and continents, The Book of Unconformities is also a journey through stone: this most solid, ancient, and enigmatic of materials, it turns out, is as lively, capricious, willful, and indifferent as time itself.
Report on the Dominion Government Expedition to Hudson Bay and the Arctic Islands
Author: A. P. LowPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
A. P. Low's 'Report on the Dominion Government Expedition to Hudson Bay and the Arctic Islands' is a meticulously detailed account of the scientific expedition to the Arctic regions undertaken by the Dominion Government. Low's writing style is clear and concise, providing readers with a wealth of information about the geography, geology, flora, and fauna of the Arctic. The book is a valuable resource for scholars interested in the exploration of the Canadian North and the scientific discoveries made during this period. Low's firsthand observations and insights offer a unique perspective on the harsh yet captivating landscapes of the Arctic. The book is written in a straightforward manner, making it accessible to a wide range of readers interested in the history of Arctic exploration. A.P. Low, a renowned Canadian geologist and explorer, led the expedition and possessed a deep knowledge of the Arctic region, which is reflected in the book. His expertise and passion for exploration shine through in the detailed descriptions and observations presented in the report. I recommend 'Report on the Dominion Government Expedition to Hudson Bay and the Arctic Islands' to anyone interested in Arctic exploration, natural history, or Canadian history.
Franz Boas
Author: Rosemary Lévy ZumwaltPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496217470
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt tells the remarkable story of Franz Boas, one of the leading scholars and public intellectuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first book in a two-part biography, Franz Boas begins with the anthropologist’s birth in Minden, Germany, in 1858 and ends with his resignation from the American Museum of Natural History in 1906, while also examining his role in training professional anthropologists from his berth at Columbia University in New York City. Zumwalt follows the stepping-stones that led Boas to his vision of anthropology as a four-field discipline, a journey demonstrating especially his tenacity to succeed, the passions that animated his life, and the toll that the professional struggle took on him. Zumwalt guides the reader through Boas’s childhood and university education, describes his joy at finding the great love of his life, Marie Krackowizer, traces his 1883 trip to Baffin Land, and recounts his efforts to find employment in the United States. A central interest in the book is Boas’s widely influential publications on cultural relativism and issues of race, particularly his book The Mind of Primitive Man (1911), which reshaped anthropology, the social sciences, and public debates about the problem of racism in American society. Franz Boas presents the remarkable life story of an American intellectual giant as told in his own words through his unpublished letters, diaries, and field notes. Zumwalt weaves together the strands of the personal and the professional to reveal Boas’s love for his family and for the discipline of anthropology as he shaped it.