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Handbook of North American Indians. Volume 5. Arctic
Title:
Handbook of North American Indians. Volume 5. Arctic
JLCTITLE245:
Volume 5. Arctic / David Damas, volume editor.
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution, 1984.
Physical Description:
xvi, 829 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 29 cm.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 731-806).
Added Author:
Variant Title:
North American Indians

Portion of title: Arctic
Contents:
[pt. 1.] Introduction / David Damas -- History of research before 1945 / Henry B. Collins -- History of archeology after 1945 / Elmer Harp, Jr. -- History of ethnology after 1945 ./ Charles C. Hughes -- Physical environment / John K. Stager and Robert J. McSkimming -- Arctic ecosystems / Milton M.R. Freemam -- Eskimo and Aleut languages / Anthony C. Woodbury -- Human biology of the Arctic / Emőke J.E. Szathmary -- Prehistory: summary / Don E. Dumond -- [pt. 2.] Western Arctic: Prehistory of North Alaska / Douglas D. Anderson -- Prehistory of the Bering Sea region / Don E. Dumond -- Prehistory of the Asian Eskimo zone / Robert E. Ackerman -- Prehistory of the Aleutian region / Allen P. McCartney -- Prehistory of the Pacific Eskimo region / Donald W. Clark -- Exploration and contact history of the western Alaska / James W. VanStone -- Aleut / Margaret Lantis -- Pacific Eskimo: historical ethnography / Donald W. Clark -- Contemporary Pacific Eskimo / Nancy Yaw Davis -- Southwest Alaska Eskimo: introduction / James W. VanStone -- Nunivak Eskimo / Margaret Lantis -- Mainland southwest Alaska Eskimo / James W. VanStone -- Asiatic Eskimo: introduction / Charles C. Hughes -- Siberian Eskimo / Charles C. Hughes -- Saint Lawrence Island Eskimo / Charles C. Hughes -- North Alaska Eskimo: introduction / Robert F. Spencer -- Bering Strait Eskimo / Dorothy Jean Ray -- Kotzebue Sound Eskimo / Ernest S. Burch, Jr. -- North Alaska coast Eskimo / Robert F. Spencer -- Interior north Alaska Eskimo / Edwin S. Hall -- Mackenzie Delta Eskimo / Derek G. Smith -- [pt. 3.] Canadian Arctic: Pre-Dorset and Dorset prehistory of Canada / Moreau S. Maxwell -- Thule prehistory of Canada / Robert McGhee -- Exploration and history of the Canadian Arctic / L.H. Neatby -- Central Eskimo: introduction / David Damas -- Copper Eskimo / David Damas -- Netsilik / Asen Balikci -- Iglulik / Guy Mary-Rousselière -- Caribou Eskimo / Eugene Y. Arima -- Baffinland Eskimo / William B. Kemp -- Inuit of Quebec / Bernard Saladin d'Anglure -- Historical ethnography of the Labrador Coast / J. Garth Taylor -- [pt. 4.] Greenland -- Greenland Eskimo: introduction / Helge Kleivan -- Paleo-Eskimo cultures of Greenland / William W. Fitzhugh -- Neo-Eskimo prehistory of Greenland / Richard H. Jordan -- History of Norse Greenland / Inge Kleivan -- History of colonial Greenland / Finn Gad -- Polar Eskimo / Rolf Gilberg -- West Greenland before 1950 / Inge Kleivan -- East Greenland before 1950 / Robert Petersen -- Greenlandic written literature / Robert Petersen -- [pt. 5.] The 1950-1980 period: Alaska Eskimo modernization / Norman A. Chance -- The land claims era in Alaska / Ernest S. Burch, Jr. -- Contemporary Canadian Inuit / Frank G. Vallee, Derek G. Smith and Joseph D. Cooper -- The Grise Fiord Project / Milton M.R. Freeman -- Contemporary Inuit in Quebec / Bernard Saladin d'Anglure -- Coastal northern Labrador after 1950 / Anne Brantenberg and Terje Brantenberg -- Contemporary Greenlanders / Helge Kleivan -- East Greenland after 1950 / Robert Petersen -- The Pan-Eskimo Movement / Robert Petersen.
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