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"Muskoxen, shaggy denizens of the Far North, are creatures long enveloped in myth. In this first major work on the muskox, Peter C. Lent presents a comprehensive account of how its fortunes have been intertwined with our own since the glaciations of the Pleistocene era.
Contains 26 full papers and 22 expanded abstracts from the second international Muskox Symposium held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, from 1-4 October, 1987. Topics include: physiology, behaviour, fossil muskox, muskox husbandry, diseases in captive and free-ranging muskox, and "status" papers
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Muskox Land provides a meticulously researched and richly illustrated treatment of Canada's High Arctic as it interweaves insights from historiography, Native studies, ecology, anthropology, and polar exploration.
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Introduces the musk ox and describes how they survive against the harsh environment and predators of the tundra.
Introduces the physical characteristics, habits, and environment of the only arctic animal that spends the long northern winter entirely in the open.
In this third edition of Anthropology and Climate Change, Susan Crate and Mark Nuttall offer a collection of chapters that examine how anthropologists work on climate change issues with their collaborators, both in academic research and practicing contexts, and discuss new developments in contributions to policy and adaptation at different scales. Building on the first edition’s pioneering focus on anthropology’s burgeoning contribution to climate change research, policy, and action, as well as the second edition’s focus on transformations and new directions for anthropological work on climate change, this new edition reveals the extent to which anthropologists’ contributions are con...
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