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Excerpt from The North Alaskan Eskimo: A Study in Ecology and Society It is to be regretted that the press of duties elsewhere prevented an Observation of the year-round cycle and pattern of life of the North Alaskan Eskimo. It is hoped that at some future time this may be accomplished. Since, however, the primary concern Of this research lies with the aboriginal North Alaskan Eskimo culture, much Of the data Obtained had to be dependent On the memory Of Older living informants. In the contemporary culture there is much to suggest the undisrupted native past, but 'many institutions have been sub jected to change and it is only from the Older peoples, those whose memories reach back to the last decades Of the 1800's, that the facts of the integrated and untouched native society can be elicited. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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.

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