Early Inuit Studies
Themes and Transitions, 1850s-1980s
$92.02
- Hardcover
592 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2016
Summary
This collection of 15 chronologically arranged papers is the first-ever definitive treatment of the intellectual historyof Eskimology-known today as Inuit studies-the field of anthropology preoccupied with the origins, history, and culture of the Inuit people. The authors trace the growth and change in scholarship on the Inuit (Eskimo) people from the 1850s to the 1980s via profiles of scientists who made major contributions to the field and via intellectual transitions (themes) that furthere…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781935623700 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1935623702 |
| Author: | Igor Krupnik |
| Publisher: | Smithsonian Books |
| Imprint: | Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2016 |
| Weight: | 1.19kg |
| Dimensions: | 262mm x 188mm x 28mm |
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About The Author
Igor Krupnik
Igor Krupnik is curator of Arctic and Northern Ethnology collections at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. His areas of expertise include modern cultures, ecological knowledge, and cultural heritage of Arctic people, primarily in Alaska and Siberia; culture change and contact history; human ecology; history of Arctic science and Arctic indigenous studies; and the impact of modern climate change on Arctic residents. He served on the Joint Committee for the International Polar Year 2007-2008 and was instrumental in bringing sociocultural and humanities issues, ecological knowledge, and environmental observations of northern residents to its program. He has published and edited several books and collections and numerous papers, including three volumes on indigenous observations of Arctic environmental change and a recent study of the contact history of the Yupik Eskimo, Yupik Transitions- Change and Survival at Bering Strait, 1900-1960 (with Michael Chlenov).
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