Faces of Aboriginal Oral Tradition in Contemporary Society
by Patrick Scott
ISBN: 9781896445595
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: January 1, 2012
320 Pages
Talking Tools: Faces of Aboriginal Oral Tradition in Contemporary Society explores the power of oral tradition in Aboriginal society as a foundational cultural and linguistic tool. Four distinct elements...
Edited by Andrzej W. Weber, Olga I. Goriunova, Hugh G. McKenzie, and Angela Lieverse
ISBN: 9781896445571
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: January 1, 2012
296 Pages
The third site monograph published as part of the Baikal Archaeology Project presents both archaeological and human osteological data from fieldwork conducted at the mortuary site Kurma XI, in the extensively...
Edited by Michelle Daveluy, Francis Lévesque, and Jenanne Ferguson
ISBN: 9781772121858
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: January 1, 2011
328 Pages
Climatic conditions, economic development strategies, health and education concerns, social relationships, and shifting political agendas all contribute to a sense of ongoing change in Arctic societies....
Edited by Igor Krupnik, Ian Allison, Robin Bell, Paul Cutler, David Hik, Jerónimo López-Martínez, Volker Rachold, Eduard Sarukhanian, and Colin Summerhayes
ISBN: 9781896445557
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: January 1, 2011
720 Pages
The International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008 co-sponsored by ICSU and WMO became the largest coordinated research program in the Earth's polar regions. It involved a large range of disciplines, from...
For centuries Canada's Aboriginal peoples have sought to enter into treaties of peace and friendship with colonial settlers based on the principles of sharing and co-existence. However, the latter remains...
Whaling for food has been a part of Faroese life for the past thousand years. Late in the 20th century, this community-based activity came under enormous pressure from international animal rights and...
There are many currents moving through the polar regions. Physical currents are changing the landscape. Cultural and linguistic currents are always changing, ebbing, flowing, adapting. PLC 2008 (Currents...
Edited by Mikhail G. Turov, Andrzej W. Weber, Hugh G. McKenzie, and Ksenia Maryniak
ISBN: 9781896445502
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: January 1, 2010
176 Pages
Evenkis comprise the largest ethnos among the 'numerically small' peoples of Siberia. They are unique in having been the only people that historically inhabited an enormous territory from the Yeniseu...
This book provides an introduction to the study of migration in the circumpolar north, a region that includes the northern parts of eight Arctic nations (Canada, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland,...
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