New Book Available
"Indigenous Ways to the Present: Native Whaling in the Western Arctic"
Edited By: Allen P. McCartney
To order the book, please contact:
University of Utah Press
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Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9402
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A new book, entitled "Indigenous Ways to the Present: Native Whaling in
the Western Arctic," has been published by CCI Press, in association
with the University of Utah Press. This volume is Number 6 in the
"Studies in Whaling" series published by CCI Press.
Chapters include:
Introduction
Allen P. McCartney and Roger K. Harritt
Environment and Environmental Change in the Western Arctic and
Subarctic: Implications for Whaling
John C. Dixon
Re-Examining Wales' Role in Bering Strait Prehistory: Some Preliminary
Results of Recent Work
Roger K. Harritt
A Paleo-Geographic Preface to the Origins of Whaling: Cold is Better
Owen Mason and Valerie Barber
Ekven - A Prehistoric Whale Hunters' Settlement on the Asian Shore of
Bering Strait
Yvon Csonka
Secular Dynamics of the Prehistoric Catch and Population Size of Baleen
Whales off the Chukchi Peninsula, Siberia: As Based upon the Study of
Historical Whale Bone from Ancient Coastal Sites
Lev G. Dinesman and Arkady B. Savinetsky
Prehistoric Bowhead Whaling in the Bering Strait and Chukchi Sea Regions
of Alaska: A Zooarchaeological Assessment
James M. Savelle and Allen P. McCartney
Ancient Whaling and the Biogeography of Bowhead and Gray Whales
Howard W. Braham
The Bowhead Whale off Chukotka: Integration of Scientific and
Traditional Knowledge
Lyudmilla S. Bogoslovskaya
Some Observations on the Influence of Environmental Conditions on the
Success of Hunting Bowhead Whales off Barrow, Alaska
John C. George, Stephen Braund, Harry Brower Jr., Craig Nicolson, and
Todd M. O'Hara
Fall Whaling in Barrow, Alaska: A Consideration of Strategic
Decision-Making
Barbara Bodenhorn
When Whaling Folks Celebrate: A Comparison of Tradition and Experience
in Two Bering Sea Whaling Communities
Carol Zane Jolles
Festival and Tradition: The Whaling Festival at Point Hope
Mary A. Larson
'Story of a Whale Hunt': Suzanne Rognon Barnardi's Photographs and
Observations of Inupiaq Whaling, Wales, Alaska, 1901-1902
Susan Fair
Eskimo Laborers: John Kelly's Commercial Shore Whaling Station, Point
Belcher, Alaska, 1891-1892
Mark Cassell
Whaling: Indigenous Ways to the Present
Herbert O. Anungazuk