Author: Hans Peder SteensbyPublisher: København : Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
An Anthropogeographical Study of the Origin of the Eskimo Culture
Author: Hans Peder SteensbyPublisher: København : Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Studies in the Anthropogeography of British New Guinea
Author: Alfred Cort HaddonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Spell of the Urubamba
Author: Daniel W. GadePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319208497
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
This work examines the valley of the Urubamba River in terms of vertical zonation, Incan impact on the environment, plant use, the history of exploration and the notion of discovery, the idea of land reform, and cultural contact with the European world. Winding its path northward from the Andean Highlands to the Amazon, the valley has served as the stage of pre-Columbian civilizations and focal point of Spanish conquest in Peru. "Gade left behind not only a superb body of scholarly work, but a network of colleagues and students who remain indebted to his example. This book should serve as an inspiration for all scholars who wish to pursue the Sauerian, counter enlightenment or post development agendas of understanding and respecting particular places in all their historical and cultural complexity, including ambiguities and contradictions." -- The Geographical Review, American Geographical Society
Proceedings
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Vols. for 1964- include reports on the meetings of the International Cartographic Association.
Geographical Review
Author: Isaiah BowmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Narrating the Arctic
Author: Michael BravoPublisher: Science History Publications/USA
ISBN: 9780881353853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Guide to Geographical Books and Appliances
Author: Hugh Robert MillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In Twilight and in Dawn
Author: Barnett RichlingPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773587047
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
When New Zealand-born and Oxford-educated anthropologist Diamond Jenness set aside hopes of building a career in the South Pacific to join Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition, he had little idea of what lay ahead. But Jenness thrived under the duress of that transformational experience: the groundbreaking ethnographic work he accomplished, recounted in People of the Twilight and in Dawn in Arctic Alaska, proved to be a lasting contribution to twentieth-century anthropology, and the foundation of a career he would devote to researching Canada's first peoples. Barnett Richling draws upon a wealth of documentary sources to shed light on Jenness's tenure with the Anthropological Division of the National Museum of Canada - a forerunner of the Canadian Museum of Civilization - during which his investigations took him beyond the Arctic to seven First Nations communities from Georgian Bay to British Columbia's interior. Jenness was renowned as a pre-eminent scholar of Inuit culture, but he also stood out for the contributions his field work made to linguistics, ethnology, material culture, and Northern archaeology. His story is also an institutional one: Jenness worked as a public servant at a time when the federal government spearheaded anthropological research, although his abiding commitment to the first peoples of his adopted homeland placed him at odds with Ottawa's approach to aboriginal affairs. In Twilight and in Dawn is an exploration of one man's life in anthropology, and of the conditions - at the museum, on the reserves, in society's mainstream, and in the world at large - that inspired and shaped Jenness's contributions to science, to his profession, and to public life. An informative study of the evolution of a discipline focused through the life of one of its leading practitioners, In Twilight and in Dawn is an illuminating look at anthropological thought and practice in Canada during the first half of the twentieth century.
The Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic
Author: T. Max FriesenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199766959
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1001
Book Description
Despite its extreme climate, the North American Arctic holds a complex archaeological record of global significance. In this volume, leading researchers provide comprehensive coverage of the region's cultural history, addressing issues as diverse as climate change impacts on human societies, European colonial expansion, and hunter-gatherer adaptations and social organization.
Thule Culture in Western Coronation Gulf, N.W.T.
Author: David A. MorrisonPublisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772821101
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Archaeological excavations between 1979 and 1981 at three house sites on the western coast of Coronation Gulf attempt to investigate Thule culture in this strategic but marginal region. These sites, along with others already excavated, appear to represent a fairly distinctive stylistic variant of Thule culture in the western central Arctic. This variant is primarily affiliated with western rather than eastern Thule, and appears to be of direct Alaskan origin.