Aghvook, White Eskimo
Author: Charles J. Keim
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 313
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Aghvook, White Eskimo
Author: Charles J. Keim
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 386
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiography of German immigrant Frank Otto William Geist (12/27/1888-10/21/1963), an Alaskan archaeologist, explorer, and naturalist, with extracts from his journals and field notes relating to Saint Lawrence Island Eskimos.
Aghvook, White Eskimo
Author: Charles J. Keim
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 386
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiography of German immigrant Frank Otto William Geist (12/27/1888-10/21/1963), an Alaskan archaeologist, explorer, and naturalist, with extracts from his journals and field notes relating to Saint Lawrence Island Eskimos.
Ancient Ink
Author: Lars Krutak
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2018-01-08
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0295742844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe human desire to adorn the body is universal and timeless. While specific forms of body decoration and the motivations for them vary by region, culture, and era, all human societies have engaged in practices designed to augment and enhance people’s natural appearance. Tattooing, the process of inserting pigment into the skin to create permanent designs and patterns, is one of the most widespread forms of body art and was practiced by ancient cultures throughout the world, with tattoos appearing on human mummies by 3200 BCE. Ancient Ink, the first book dedicated to the archaeological study of tattooing, presents new, globe-spanning research examining tattooed human remains, tattoo tools, and ancient art. Connecting ancient body art traditions to modern culture through Indigenous communities and the work of contemporary tattoo artists, the volume’s contributors reveal the antiquity, durability, and significance of body decoration, illuminating how different societies have used their skin to construct their identities.
Challenging the Dichotomy
Author: Les Field
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2016-12-06
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0816534659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChallenging the Dichotomy explores how dichotomies regarding heritage dominate the discourse of ethics, practices, and institutions. Examining issues of cultural heritage law, policy, and implementation, editors Les Field, Cristóbal Gnecco, and Joe Watkins guide the focus to important discussions of the binary oppositions of the licit and the illicit, the scientific and the unscientific, incorporating case studies that challenge those apparent contradictions. Utilizing both ethnographic and archaeological examples, contributors ask big questions vital to anyone working in cultural heritage. What are the issues surrounding private versus museum collections? What is considered looting? Is archaeology still a form of colonialization? The contributors discuss this vis-à-vis a global variety of contexts and cultures from the United States, South Africa, Argentina, New Zealand, Honduras, Colombia, Palestine, Greece, Canada, and from the Nasa, Choctaw, and Maori nations. Challenging the Dichotomy underscores how dichotomies—such as licit/illicit, state/nonstate, public/private, scientific/nonscientific—have been constructed and how they are now being challenged by multiple forces. Throughout the eleven chapters, contributors provide examples of hegemonic relationships of power between nations and institutions. Scholars also reflect on exchanges between Western and non-Western epistemologies and ontologies. The book’s contributions are significant, timely, and inclusive. Challenging the Dichotomy examines the scale and scope of “illicit” forms of excavation, as well as the demands from minority and indigenous subaltern peoples to decolonize anthropological and archaeological research.
Arctic Archaeology
Author: Albert A. Dekin
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub.
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides an introduction to the study of Arctic archaeology.
Eskimo Drawings
Author: Suzi Jones
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 218
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in conjunction with a 2003 exhibition organized by the Anchorage Museum of History and Art and co-curated by Suzi Jones and Walter Van Horn, Eskimo Drawings marks the first time that Alaska Eskimo artwork has been the exclusive subject of a major exhibition and publication. Accompanied by full-color illustrations, as well as black-and-white photographic reproductions, Eskimo Drawings features only a few works that have ever been exhibited previously while showcasing the work of previously undiscovered Eskimo artists. Covering topics as diverse as artistic considerations in the Eskimo graphic arts and an analysis of the work of Happy Jack and Guy Kakarook, this remarkable volume includes contributions by Susan W. Fair, Russell Hartman, Herbert O. Anungazuk, Steve Henrikson, Molly Lee, Mary Jane Anuqsraaq Melovidov, Patrick Minock, David Mollett, Dorothy Jean Ray, Susie Silook, Birgitte Sonne, and David P. Sweeney. Not to be missed by any art historian with an interest in Alaska Eskimo and Alaska Native art, this fascinating and fully illustrated collection is an unsurpassed survey of the field.
Boots, Bikes, and Bombers
Author: Karen Brewster
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2012-05-15
Total Pages: 537
ISBN-13: 1602231745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoots, Bikes, and Bombers presents an intimate oral history of Ginny Hill Wood, a pioneering Alaska conservationist and outdoorswoman. Born in Washington in 1917, Wood served as a Women’s Airforce Service Pilot in World War II, and flew a military surplus airplane to Alaska in 1946. Settling in Fairbanks, she went on to co-found Camp Denali, Alaska’s first wilderness ecotourism lodge; helped start the Alaska Conservation Society, the state’s first environmental organization; and applied her love of the outdoors to her work as a backcountry guide and an advocate for trail construction and preservation. An innovative and collaborative life history, Boots, Bikes, and Bombers, incorporates the story of friendship between the author and subject. The resulting book is a valuable contribution to the history of Alaska as well as a testament to the joys of living a life full of passion and adventure.
Fu-Go
Author: Ross Coen
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2014-11-01
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 080325668X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNear the end of World War II, in an attempt to attack the United States mainland, Japan launched its fu-go campaign, deploying thousands of high-altitude hydrogen balloons armed with incendiary and high-explosive bombs designed to follow the westerly winds of the upper atmosphere and drift to the west coast of North America. After reaching the mainland, these fu-go, the Japanese hoped, would terrorize American citizens and ignite devastating forest fires across the western states, ultimately causing the United States to divert wartime resources to deal with the domestic crisis. While the fu-go offensive proved to be a complete tactical failure, six Americans lost their lives when a discovered balloon exploded. Ross Coen provides a fascinating look into the obscure history of the fu-go campaign, from the Japanese schoolgirls who manufactured the balloons by hand to the generals in the U.S. War Department who developed defense procedures. The book delves into panic, propaganda, and media censorship in wartime. Fu-go is a compelling story of a little-known episode in our national history that unfolded virtually unseen.
Alaska's Native People
Author: Lael Morgan
Publisher: Alaska Geographic
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhotos and accompanying text describe the history, cultures, and locations of the various native races, clans, phratries, and tribes of Alaska.
