Endangered Peoples of the Arctic
Subtitle: Struggles to Survive and Thrive (The Greenwood Press "Endangered Peoples of the World" Series)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: June 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780313306495
Subjects: Cultural studies; Social & cultural anthropology; Cultural And Social Anthropology; Social Geography; Social Science; Sociology; Arctic Regions; Anthropology - Cultural; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Anthropology - General; Human Geography; Acculturation; Arctic peoples; Economic conditions
Description: An illuminating introduction to endangered peoples and cultures of the Arctic regions. Annotation. Examines the threats to cultural survival of 14 groups of peoples of the arctic regions in Russia, Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Norway, and Finland, as well as their political, cultural, and economic responses to the threat. Each chapter also discusses the ecological settings, subsistence strategies, social and political organizations, religions and world views of such groups as the Inuits, the James Bay Cree, the Evenkis of Central Siberia, and the Whaler Northern Norway.