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Social Life in Northwest Alaska
This landmark volume will stand for decades as one of the most comprehensive studies of a hunter-gatherer population ever written. In this third and final volume in a series on the early contact period Iñupiaq Eskimos of northwestern Alaska, Burch examines every topic of significance to hunter-gatherer research, ranging from discussions of social relationships and settlement structure to nineteenth-century material culture.
Bella Coola language
A description of the phonology, morphonology, morphology, syntax, historical, areal, and typological features of the Salish language of Bella Coola, British Columbia.
The Chilkat Dancing Blanket
Describes the origin of the Chilkat or Dancing blanket and provides detailed information on materials, spinning, dyeing and weaving techniques. Well illustrated.
Eight Inuit myths / Inuit unipkaaqtuat pingasuniarvinilit
Literary and morphemic translations of eight Nassilingmiut (Central Arctic Inuit) myths are provided.
A reference grammar for the coast Tsimshian language
A general introduction to the phonology, morphology, and syntax of contemporary Coast Tsimshian. The grammar provided helps explain the practical orthography used, pronunciation and sound changes, word formation, and syntax.
Persistent ceremonialism: the Plains Cree and Saulteaux
Taped interviews, participant observation, sketches, and photographs pertaining to the Plains Cree and Saulteaux Rain Dance and Sweat Bath Feast illustrate the important role played by the social group in the creation of identity, maintenance of stability, and continuity of Native culture.
Context of the informant narrative performance
An examination of the relationship between narrative structure and narrative performance in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta.
The History of Anthropology
This volume on the history of anthropology emphasizes schools of theory, institutional connections, social networks, and collaborative research with North American Indigenous communities. Regna Darnell, a fifty-year veteran of the field, brings unsurpassed historicist and presentist interpretations of the discipline’s legacy.
Ethnohistoric study of eastern James Bay Cree social organization, 1700-1850
In seeking to examine the accommodation by this Northern Algonquian people to the fur trade, this study first outlines the historical development and ecological setting and then looks at the question of social change from the perspectives of economic adaptations, group structure, leadership and territorial organization.
Apache Reservation
“Perry undertakes the enormous task of analyzing the historical workings of the reservation system, using the San Carlos Apache as a case study.” —The American Historical Review “Indian reservations” were the United States’ ultimate solution to the “problem” of what to do with native peoples who already occupied the western lands that Anglo settlers wanted. In this broadly inclusive study, Richard J. Perry considers the historical development of the reservation system and its contemporary relationship to the American state, with comparisons to similar phenomena in Canada, Australia, and South Africa. The San Carlos Apache Reservation of Arizona provides the lens through which...
