Ugiuvangmiut quliapyuit
Title | Ugiuvangmiut quliapyuit PDF eBook |
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Pages | 259 |
Release | 1988 |
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Ugiuvangmiut Quliapyuit
Title | Ugiuvangmiut Quliapyuit PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence D. Kaplan (Linguist) |
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Pages | 259 |
Release | 1988 |
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The Language of the Inuit
Title | The Language of the Inuit PDF eBook |
Author | Louis-Jacques Dorais |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 409 |
Release | 2014-08-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0773581766 |
The culmination of forty years of research, The Language of the Inuit maps the geographical distribution and linguistic differences between the Eskaleut and Inuit languages and dialects. Providing details about aspects of comparative phonology, grammar, and lexicon as well as Inuit prehistory and historical evolution, Louis-Jacques Dorais shows the effects of bilingualism, literacy, and formal education on Inuit language and considers its present status and future. An enormous task, masterfully accomplished, The Language of the Inuit is not only an anthropological and linguistic study of a language and the broad social and cultural contexts where it is spoken but a history of the language's speakers.
Finding the Center
Title | Finding the Center PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Tedlock |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780803244399 |
This second edition features three new Zuni stories, updated transcriptions of stories from the original edition, a bibliography, and a new preface and introduction.
Resources in Education
Title | Resources in Education PDF eBook |
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Pages | 1032 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Education |
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Alliance and Conflict
Title | Alliance and Conflict PDF eBook |
Author | Ernest S. Burch |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780803213463 |
Alliance and Conflict combines a richly descriptive study of intersocietal relations in early nineteenth-century Northwest Alaska with a bold theoretical treatise on the structure of the world system as it might have been in ancient times. Ernest S. Burch Jr. illuminates one aspect of the traditional lives of the I_upiaq Eskimos in unparalleled detail and depth. Basing his account on observations made by early Western explorers, interviews with Native historians, and archeological research, Burch describes the social boundaries and geographic borders formerly existing in Northwest Alaska and the various kinds of transactions that took place across them. These ranged from violence of the most brutal sort, at one extreme, to relations of peace and friendship, at the other. Burch argues that the international system he describes approximated in many respects the type of system existing all over the world before the development of agriculture. Based on that assumption, he presents a series of hypotheses about what the world system may have been like when it consisted entirely of hunter-gatherer societies and about how it became more centralized with the evolution of chiefdoms. ø Accounts of specific people, places, and events add an immediate, experiential dimension to the work, complementing its theoretical apparatus and sweeping narrative scope. Provocative and comprehensive, Alliance and Conflict is a definitive look at the greater world of Native peoples of Northwest Alaska.
Historical Dictionary of the Inuit
Title | Historical Dictionary of the Inuit PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela R. Stern |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2013-09-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0810879123 |
This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Inuit provides a history of the indigenous peoples of North Alaska, arctic Canada including Labrador, and Greenland. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Inuits.