Early Inuit studies : themes and transitions, 1850s-1980s /

Early Inuit studies : themes and transitions, 1850s-1980s /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Krupnik, Igor (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2016.
Series:Smithsonian contribution to knowledge.
Subjects:
Inuit > History.
Inuit > Politics and government.
Inuit > Social life and customs.
Anthropologists > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: From 1959 to 2014 : personal observations on 55 years of change / Nelson H.H. Graburn
  • From Boas to Burch : Eskimology transitions / Igor Krupnik
  • Between science and politics : the Eskimology of Hinrich Johannes Rink / Ole Marquardt
  • Samuel Petrus Kleinschmidt, 1814-1886 : the originator of scientific Inuit grammar / Jerrold M. Sadock
  • Franz Boas and the Inuit : beyond the Baffin Island years. One field season and 50-year career : Franz Boas and early Eskimology / Igor Krupnik ; Franz Boas's English publications on Inuit and the Arctic (1884-1926) : a bibliographical survey / Ludger Müller-Wille ; Collecting at a distance : the Boas-Mutch-Comer collaboration / Kenn Harper
  • Knud Rasmussen : explorer, ethnographer, and narrator / Kirsten Hastrup
  • The concepts of paleo- and neo-Eskimo cultures : the Danish tradition from H.P. Steensby and his students, G. Hatt, K. Birket-Smith, and Th. Mathiassen, to their successors, H. Larsen and J. Meldgaard / Hans Christian Gulløv
  • Solving the "Eskimo problem" : Henry Bascom Collins and Arctic archaeology / William W. Fitzhugh
  • The Bogoras Project and Yupik Eskimo linguistics in Russia / Nikolai Vakhtin
  • Frederica de Laguna : the last Arctic universalist and bridge to the future / William W. Fitzhugh
  • The formation of Danish Eskimology : from William Thalbitzer to the Greenland home rule era / Søren Thuesen
  • Albert C. Heinrich and the post-World War II trajectory of (Alaskan) Inuit kinship studies / Peter P. Schweitzer
  • A retrospective on the development and practice of Alaska Eskimo ethnohistory, 1940-1985 / Kenneth L. Pratt
  • The legacy of Charles Campbell Hughes : studying the Sivuqaghmiit (St. Lawrence Island Yupik) in a time of change / Carol Zane Jolles
  • The power of maps : Inuit Land Use and Occupancy Project (1976) as a landmark in Inuit land use studies / Claudio Aporta
  • Closing the (Arctic) circle : Ernest S. Burch and the "Peoples of the Arctic" map / Igor Krupnik
  • Coda. A reminiscence of transition, 1992-2012 / Béatrice Collignon.