Author: ASEN BALIKCIPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
THE NETSILIK ESKIMO
Author: ASEN BALIKCIThe Netsilik Eskimo
Author: Asen BalikciPublisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478607912
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Today regarded as a classic, this description of life in polar cultures reflects traditional ethnography at its best and has been a favored account for thirty years. Balikcis important study of the Netsilingmiut, an isolated tribe of Arctic hunters living close to the Arctic Circle, examines their technology, social organization, and religion. The extended period of time that the author worked with the Netsilik Eskimo is reflected in the depth of his understanding of their past and present environments. His portrayal of their dependence on government services, along with modern technology, provides an accurate and necessary insight into the process of cultural change being experienced by cultures in many developing countries. The volume makes a superb accompaniment to the Netsilik documentary film series.
Art & Expression of the Netsilik
Author: Darlene WightPublisher: Goose Lane Editions
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Never in Anger
Author: Jean L. BriggsPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674608283
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Describes emotional patterning of the Utkuhikhalingmiut, a small group of Eskimos who live at the mouth of the Back River, in the context of their life as seen as lived by the author. Based on field work conducted between June 1963 and March 1965.
The Netsilik Eskimo
Author: Asen BalikciPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Netsilik Inuit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Terror
Author: Dan SimmonsPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316003883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
The "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly). The men on board the HMS Terror — part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage — are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations, a dwindling coal supply, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is even more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror clawing to get in. “The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years.” —Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe
Roald Amundsen
Author: Roald AmundsenPublisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Autobiography.
Kabloona
Author: Gontran de PoncinsPublisher: New York ; Toronto : Bantam Books
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The Creation of Inequality
Author: Kent FlanneryPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674064976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Flannery and Marcus demonstrate that the rise of inequality was not simply the result of population increase, food surplus, or the accumulation of valuables but resulted from conscious manipulation of the unique social logic that lies at the core of every human group. Reversing the social logic can reverse inequality, they argue, without violence.
White Lies about the Inuit
Author: John SteckleyPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9781551118758
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
In this lively book, designed specifically for introductory students, Steckley unpacks three white lies: the myth that there are fifty-two words for snow, that there are blond, blue-eyed Inuit descended from the Vikings, and that the Inuit send off their elders to die on ice floes.