Alliance and Conflict The World System of the Inupiaq Eskimos |
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Author:
| Burch, Ernest S. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8032-6238-6 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2005 |
Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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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#65533;upiaq Eskimos in unparalleled detail and depth.
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#65533;upiaq Eskimos in unparalleled detail and depth.