Inupiaq Eskimo Nations of Northwest Alaska

by Ernest S. Burch Jr.

Book Overview

In what distinguished anthropologist James VanStone has described as "a superb example of salvage ethnography," The Inupiaq Eskimo Nations of Northwest Alaska presents a social geography of this far corner of the continent as it was during the early historic period. Author Ernest S. Burch, Jr., who has studied the area for over thirty years, contends that the Inupiaq Eskimos of northwest Alaska were organized into several autonomous societies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 091200696X
• ISBN13: 9780912006963
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: University of Alaska Press
• Length: 473 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.1" x 10.0"