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Alutiiq Traditions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 48

Alutiiq Traditions

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 154

The Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers

This book makes a contribution to the developing field of complex hunter-gatherer studies with an archaeological analysis of the development of one such group. It examines the evolution of complex hunter-gatherers on the North Pacific coast of Alaska. It is one of the first books available to examine in depth the social evolution of a specific complex hunter-gatherer tradition on the North Pacific Rim and will be of interest to professional archaeologists, anthropologists, and students of archaeology and anthropology.

Igaruacirpet - Our Way of Making Designs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Igaruacirpet - Our Way of Making Designs

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-01-31
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Alutiiq artwork is alive! Paintings tell family stories and send messages. Circles are eyes that watch for prey. The color green calls upon spirits for assistance. Igaruacirpet explores the Alutiiq arts, focusing on the ways graphic designs carry cultural information. Chapters on petroglyphs, incised drawings, painting, and body art share hundreds of traditional images, investigate their history and meaning, and reveal conventions in Alutiiq art. Alutiiq designs express an Alutiiq worldview that appears in everything from paintings to parkas.

The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced

"Following the ship's route, the book addresses wilderness conservation biology and ecology, American history, natural history and anthropology, and travel and exploration."--Jacket.

Giinaquq Like a Face
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Giinaquq Like a Face

  • Categories: Art

Masks are an ancient tradition of the Alutiiq people on the southern coast of Alaska. Alutiiq artists carved the masks from wood or bark into images of ancestors, animal spirits, and other mythological forces; these extraordinary creations have been an essential tool for communicating with the spirit world and have played an important role in dances and hunting festivities for centuries. Giinaquq—Like a Face presents thirty-three full-color images of these fantastic and eye-catching masks, which have been preserved for more than a century as part of the Pinart Collection in a small French museum. These masks, collected in 1871 by a young French scholar of indigenous cultures, are presented for the first time in their complete cultural context, celebrating the rich history of the Alutiiq people and their artistic traditions. In addition to the stunning photographs, Giinaquq—Like a Face includes an informative text in three languages—English, Alutiiq, and French—in order to provide a cross-cultural understanding of the masks’ traditional meaning and use. This captivating and revealing book will be an essential resource for anyone interested in indigenous art and culture.

The Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1001

The Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic

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.

Out of the Cold
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

Out of the Cold

The Arctic rim of North America presents one of the most daunting environments for humans. Cold and austere, it is lacking in plants but rich in marine mammals-primarily the ringed seal, walrus, and bowhead whale. In this book in the SAA Press Current Perspectives Series, the authors track the history of cultural innovations in the Arctic and Subarctic for the past 12,000 years, including the development of sophisticated architecture, watercraft, fur clothing, hunting technology, and worldviews. Climate change is linked to many of the successes and failures of its inhabitants; warming or cooling periods led to periods of resource abundance or collapse, and in several instances to long-distance migrations. At its western and eastern margins, the Arctic also experienced the impact of Asian and European world systems, from that of the Norse in the East to the Russians in the Bering Strait.

Journal of Northwest Anthropology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140

Journal of Northwest Anthropology

Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Pacific Lamprey (Entosphenus tridentatus) in Northeastern Oregon and Southeastern Washington from Indigenous Peoples of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation - David A. Close, Aaron D. Jackson, Brian P. Conner, and Hiram W. Li The Wapato Valley Predictive Model: Prehistoric Archaeological Site Location on the Floodplain of the Columbia River in the Portland Basin - Leslie M. O'Rourke Whales, Boats, and Anthropomorphs: Iconographic and Contextual Analyses of Two Pictograph Sites in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska - Melissa F. Baird The Effects of Multiple High-Ranked Prey Species on the Use of Evenness as a Proxy Measure for Diet Breadth: An Example from the Southeastern Columbia Plateau - Vaughn R. Kimball Abstracts 57th Meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Eugene, Oregon 211 NAGPRA in Southern Idaho: An Ethnographic Assessment of BLM Shoshone-Paiute Archaeological Collections - Deward E. Walker, Jr.

Encyclopedia of Prehistory Complete set of Volumes 1-8 and Volume 9, the index volume
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Encyclopedia of Prehistory Complete set of Volumes 1-8 and Volume 9, the index volume

The Encyclopedia of Prehistory, with regionally organized entries on each major archaeological tradition, is a comprehensive overview of human history from two million years ago to the historic period. Prepared under the auspices and with the support of the Human Relations Area Files, and an internationally distinguished advisory board, the Encyclopedia is organized regionally with entries on each major archaeological tradition, written by noted experts in the field and edited by Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember. The volumes follow a standard format and employ comparable units of description and analysis, making them easy to use and compare. -Volume 1 focuses on Africa. -Volume 2 focuses on Arctic and Sub Arctic. -Volume 3 focuses on East Asia and Oceania. -Volume 4 focuses on Europe. -Volume 5 focuses on Middle America. -Volume 6 focuses on North America. -Volume 7 focuses on South America. -Volume 8 focuses on South & Southwest Asia. -Volume 9 is the index volume.

Kodiak Kreol
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 351

Kodiak Kreol

From the 1780s to the 1820s, Kodiak Island, the first capital of Imperial Russia's only overseas colony, was inhabited by indigenous Alutiiq people and colonized by Russians. Together, they established an ethnically mixed "kreol" community. Against the backdrop of the fur trade, the missionary work of the Russian Orthodox Church, and competition among Pacific colonial powers, Gwenn A. Miller brings to light the social, political, and economic patterns of life in the settlement, making clear that Russia's modest colonial effort off the Alaskan coast fully depended on the assistance of Alutiiq people. In this context, Miller argues, the relationships that developed between Alutiiq women and Ru...