Hunting the largest animals : native whaling in the western Arctic and subarctic /
McCartney, Allen P.
Canadian Circumpolar Institute.
[Alberta] : Canadian Circumpolar Institute, University of Alberta,
c1995.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Roger K. Harritt, Carol Zane Jolles, and Allen P. McCartney -- The archaeological imagination, zooarchaeological data, the origins of whaling in the western Arctic, and 'old whaling' and Choris cultures / Owen K. Mason and S. Craig Gerlach -- The development and spread of the whale hunting complex in Bering Strait: retrospective and prospects / Roger K. Harritt -- Whale traps on the North Pacific? / Don E. Dumond -- Prehistoric use of cetacean species in the northern Gulf of Alaska / Linda Finn Yarborough -- Whale size selection by precontact hunters of the North American western Arctic and subarctic / Allen P. McCartney -- Prehistoric beluga whale hunting at Gupuk, Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories, Canada / T. Max Friesen and Charles D. Arnold -- An ethnoarchaeological investigation of Inuit beluga whale and narwhal harvesting / James M. Savelle -- Whales, mammoths, and other big beasts: assessing their roles in prehistoric economies / David R. Yesner -- Siberian Eskimos as whalers and warriors / Hans-Georg Bandi -- Whaling surplus, trade, war, and the integration of prehistoric northern and northwestern Alaskan economies, A.D. 1200-1826 / Glenn W. Sheehan -- And then there were none: the 'disappearance' of the qargi in northern Alaska / Mary Ann Larson -- Paul Silook's legacy: the ethnohistory of whaling on St. Lawrence Island / Carol Zane Jolles -- Contemporary Alaska Eskimo bowhead whaling villages / Stephen R. Braund and Elisabeth L. Moorehead -- Sex and size composition of bowhead whales landed by Alaskan Eskimo whalers / Howard W. Braham -- Speaking of whaling: a transcript of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission panel presentation on native whaling / edited by Carol Zane Jolles -- Whaling: a ritual of life / Herbert O. Anungazuk.
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