The Iñupiat and Arctic Alaska
Subtitle: an ethnography of development
By: Norman A. Chance.
Series: Case studies in cultural anthropology
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Fort Worth
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Eskimos -- Alaska -- Social conditions; Rural development -- Alaska; Eskimos -- Alaska -- Economic conditions; Eskimos -- Alaska -- Government relations
Description: This account of the social, economic and political conditions of the Inupiat people of the north slope area of Alaska covers their history, traditions and adaptation to current industrial activity such as oil explorations, with a case study of the village of Kaktovik.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-230).