To the Aleutians and beyond
Subtitle: the anthropology of William S. Laughlin
By: editors, Bruno Frohlich, Albert B. Harper and Rolf Gilberg.
Contributors: Frohlich, Bruno.; Harper, Albert B., 1950-; Gilberg, R.; Laughlin, William S.; Nationalmuseet (Denmark). Etnografisk samling.
Series: Publications of the National Museum. Ethnographical series -- v.20.; Nationalmuseets skrifter -- v. 20.
Publisher: Dept. of Ethnography, the National Museum of Denmark
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Copenhagen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9788789384856
Subjects: Laughlin, William S.; Aleuts -- Antiquities.; Aleuts -- Anthropometry.; Aleuts -- Funeral customs and rites.; Human remains (Archaeology) -- Alaska -- Aleutian Islands.; Ice mummies -- Alaska -- Aleutian Islands.; Aleutian Islands (Alaska) -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-359) and index.
Table of contents: value: Preface / by Bruno Frohlich, Albert B. Harper, and Rolf Gilberg; value: Introduction: William S. Laughlin, anthropologist's anthropologist, 1919-2001 / by Albert B. Harper; value: Aleut shamanism in the twentieth century? An assessment of evidence / by Gerald D. Berreman; value: Preliminary identification of avian species associated with burial remains of human mummies from Kagamil Island, Alaska / by Carla J. Dove and Suzanne C. Peurach; value: Aleutian settlement distribution on Adak, Kagalaska, Buldir and Attu Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska / by Bruno Frohlich; value: Unangan mortuary practices and the Umqan burials on Anangula Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska / by Bruno Frohlich and Sara B. Laughlin; value: Nukagpianguaq and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police / by Rolf Gilberg; value: Aleutian remains at the Smithsonian Institution / by David Hunt; value: CT scanning of Aleutian mummies / by Birna Jonsdottir; value: The Kodiak-Aleutian anthropometric data / by Jørgen Balslev Jørgensen; value: Awa'uq: discovery and excavation of an 18th century Alutiiq refuge rock in the Kodiak archipelago / by Rick Knecht, Sven Haakanson, and Shawn Dickson; value: The Inuit population of Greenland re-evaluated / by Anders Koch; value: The Surveyor of the 'bridge': interview with William S. Laughlin / by Igor Krupnik; value: DNA typing methods using bone samples in human identification casework / by Henry C. Lee, Heather Miller Coyle, and Carll Ladd; value: The Greeland mummies / by Niels Lynnerup and Tina Sørensen; value: Longhouses of the eastern Aleutian Islands, Alaska / by Allen P. McCartney and Douglas W. Veltre; value: Degenerative spondylolisthesis in Aleut and Inuit skeletons / by Charles F. Merbs; value: The Morris Steggerda human biology collection / by Paul S. Sledzik; value: The epidemiologic transition, the aging process and their evolutionary significance / by Wiliam Stini; value: Osteoporosis and physical frailty: growing public health issues / by David D. Thompson; value: Wet and chilled with fogged-up glasses: an Aleutian photographic essay in tribute to William S. Laughlin / by Christy G. Turner II; value: The Kachemak connection: prehistoric cultural relationships between the Kenai Peninsula and the Kodiak Archipelago ca. 3,000 to 1,000 years ago / by William Workman; value: Y-chromosomes and the trinity / by Stephen L. Zegura.