Alliance in Eskimo society
Title:
Alliance in Eskimo society
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edited by Lee Guemple.
Publication Information:
Seattle, Wash. : American Ethnological Society; distributed by the University of Washington Press, [1972]
Physical Description:
131 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
ISBN:
9780295952369
General Note:
Papers presented at a symposium held during the November 1971 meeting of the American Anthropological Association in New York.
Abstract:
Papers presented at a symposium held during the November 1971 meeting of the American Anthropological Association in New York. The symposium provided a description and analysis of all those kinship and non-kinship usages which operate as alliances in Eskimo society.
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Bibliography: p. 121-131.
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Contents:
Introduction / Lee Guemple -- Flexibility in Canadian Eskimo social forms and behavior: a situational and transactional appraisal / Colin Adams -- Alliance and conflict: inter-regional relations in north Alaska / Ernest S. Burch, Jr. and Thomas C. Correll -- The structure of central Eskimo associations / David Damas -- Kinship and alliance in Belcher Island Eskimo society / Lee Guemple -- Divorce as an alliance mechanism among Eskimos / Albert Heinrich -- You have to be a good lawyer to be an Eskimo / Lawrence Hennigh -- The social composition of the north Alaskan whaling crew / Robert F. Spencer.