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Arctic articles from June 1999
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Arctic archives from June 1999
Nunavut.
June 1, 1999... On April first, Nunavut became a reality--the first change in Canada's geopolitical boundaries since the 1949 addition of Newfoundland and Labrador. My wife Helen and I had the good fortune and honour to be present in Iqaluit for the...
Traditional ecological knowledge and Inuit: reflections on TEK research and ethics.
June 1, 1999... GEORGE W. WENZEL (1)
(Received 24 February 1998; accepted in revised form 20 January 1999)
ABSTRACT. The intimate knowledge that Inuit possess about the environment has figured prominently in North American Arctic research since at...
Institutionalizing love: the Nuniaq-ing custom among Alaskan INupiat.
June 1, 1999... JULIE E. SPROTT (1)
(Received 9 April 1998; accepted in revised form 16 October 1998)
ABSTRACT. Nuniaq-ing young children is a distinctive Inupiaq childrearing custom that survives to this day. It concerns a kind of stereotyped cooing...
In pursuit of prehistoric caribou on Thandlat, Southern Yukon.
June 1, 1999... GERALD W. KUZYK, (1) DONALD E. RUSSELL, (2) RICHARD S. FARNELL, (1) RUTH M. GOTTHARDT, (3), (5) P. GREGORY HARE, (3) and ERIK BLAKE (4)
(Received 15 June 1998; accepted in revised form 27 November 1998)
ABSTRACT. In 1997, the first...
Circumpolar Inuit: health of a population in transition.
June 1, 1999... By PETER BJERREGAARD and T. KUE YOUNG. Copenhagen, Denmark: Munksgaard International Publishers Ltd., 1998. ISBN 87-16-11905-3. 287 p., maps, b&w illus., bib., appendix, index. Hardbound. DKK 300.00 + VAT.
The authors preface their work...
From Middle ages to Colonial times: archaeological and ethnohistorical studies of the Thule culture in Southwest Greenland, 1300-1800 A.D.
June 1, 1999... By HANS CHRISTIAN GULLV. Copenhagen: The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland, 1997. Meddelelser om Grnland, Man & Society 23. 501 p., maps, drawings, b&w illus., bib., appendix. Hardbound. DKK 500.00 + VAT.
In this ambitious...
Fifty years of arctic research: anthropological studies from Greenland to Siberia.
June 1, 1999... Edited by R. GILBERG and H.C. GULLV. Copenhagen: The National Museum of Denmark, 1997. Ethnographical Series, Vol. 18. Department of Ethnography, The National Museum of Denmark. 344 p., maps, b&w illus., indexes, bib. Softbound. DKK 350.00 +...
Inupiaq Eskimo nations of Northwest Alaska.
June 1, 1999... By ERNEST S. BURCH, Jr. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1998. 473 p., maps, charts, b&w illus., bib., indexes. Hardbound, US$49.95; Softbound, US$31.95.
The Inupiaq Eskimo Nations of Northwest Alaska is the first of at least three...
Frank P. Hunt (1921-1999).
June 1, 1999... The Arctic science community has lost one of its best, and we have all lost a true friend. Frank Hunt was born in Argentia, Newfoundland on 10 August 1921. His father, a blacksmith, died when Frank was three years old, and his mother Mary...
Anders Rapp (1927-1998).
June 1, 1999... Anders Rapp, Professor Emeritus of Physical Georgraphy at the University of Lund, Sweden, died on 27 December 1998, at the age of 71. Anders was one of the exceptional group of students who carried out doctoral studies under Filip Hjulstrom at...