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Arctic articles from December 1998
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Arctic archives from December 1998
Modern food sharing networks and community integration in the Central Canadian Arctic.
December 1, 1998... PETER COLLINGS, (1) GEORGE WENZEL (2) and RICHARD G. CONDON (3)
(Received 9 July 1997; accepted in revised form 6 March 1998)
ABSTRACT. From June 1992 to July 1993, research on wildlife harvesting and subsistence relations was conducted...
Seabirds of the Chukotka Peninsula, Russia.
December 1, 1998... NIKOLAI B. KONYUKHOV, (1) LUDMILA S. BOGOSLOVSKAYA, (1),(2) BORIS M. ZVONOV (1) and THOMAS I. VAN PELT (3)
(Received 3 January 1997; accepted in revised form 5 February 1998)
ABSTRACT. We conducted seabird surveys along the entire coast...
Evidence of population declines among common eiders breeding in the Belcher Islands, Northwest Territories.
December 1, 1998... GREGORY J. ROBERTSON (1) and H. GRANT GILCHRIST (2)
(Received 26 January 1998; accepted in revised form 27 May 1998)
ABSTRACT. Information regarding the status of common eiders Somateria mollissima breeding in the Canadian Arctic is...
Penguins of the world.
December 1, 1998... By WAYNE LYNCH. Willowdale, Ontario: Firefly Books Ltd., 1997. 143 p., Colour illus., appendices, maps, bib., index. Hardbound. Cdn$35.00.
Few animals elicit greater interest than penguins, and virtually everyone is captivated by these...
Polar journeys: the role of food and nutrition in early exploration.
December 1, 1998... By ROBERT E. FEENEY. Fairbanks, Alaska: American Chemical Society and University of Alaska Press, 1998. 279 p., 13 maps, 15 illus., 22 tables, bib., index. Hardbound, US$41.95; Softbound, US$27.95.
Robert E. Feeney, a professor of chemistry...
Use wear analysis on bone and antler tools of the MacKenzie Inuit.
December 1, 1998... By GENEVIEVE M. LeMOINE. Oxford, England: John and Erica Hedges, 1997. BAR International Series 679. ix + 146 p., map, b&w illus., bib., appendices. Softbound. [pounds sterling]40.00.
Functional studies of stone tools are now fairly common....
Northern passage: ethnography and apprenticeship among the subarctic Dene.
December 1, 1998... By ROBERT JARVENPA. Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press, 1998. 210 p., maps, b&w illus., bib., study guide. Softbound. US$11.50.
In the acknowledgements to his book, Jarvenpa credits Cornelius Osgood's 1953 "retrospective account"...
Safe passage questioned: medical care and safety for the polar tourist.
December 1, 1998... Edited by J.M. LEVINSON and E. GER. Centreville, Maryland: Cornell Maritime Press, 1998. xiii + 178 p. Softbound. US$24.95.
This book is a result of a conference held in October 1995 at Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England,...
Inuit: ce qu'ils savent du territoire.
December 1, 1998... By BEATRICE COLLIGNON. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1996. 255 p., maps, b&w illus., bib., appendices. Softbound.
Les Inuit. Ce qu'ils savent du territoire ("The Inuit. What they know of the territory") is a slightly reworked version of Beatrice...
Arctic sky: Inuit astronomy, star lore, and legend.
December 1, 1998... By JOHN MACDONALD. Toronto, Ontario: The Royal Ontario Museum and the Nunavut Research Institute, 1998. ix + 314 p., colour and b&w illus., notes, bib., index. Softbound. Cdn$29.95.
Based primarily on information about star lore and...
Waldo K. Lyon (1914-1998).
December 1, 1998... Waldo Kampmeier Lyon, father of the United States Navy's highly successful Arctic submarine program, died unexpectedly of a heart attack in San Diego on 5 May 1998. He was Chief Scientist for Arctic Submarine Technology at the Naval Undersea...
Origins and zoogeography of flies (insecta: diptera) in Southern Yukon grasslands.
December 1, 1998... IN 1995, I took a zoogeography course at McGill University with my current thesis supervisor, Terry Wheeler. The purpose of zoogeographic analysis is to answer the question: "What lives where, and why?" The question may be simple, but the...
Hiukitak school of Tuktu: collecting Inuit ecological knowledge of caribou and calving areas through an elder-youth camp.
December 1, 1998... LENA KAMOAYOK awoke at her usual time (4:00 a.m.) and began to prepare her teaching props. She squatted into the gentle light coming through the opening in her tent and, with her army knife, she expertly sliced through the Frosted Flakes box....