From hunters to herders : the transformation of earth, society, and heaven among the Inupiat of Beringia / by Linda J. Ellanna and George K. Sherrod ; edited by Rachel Mason

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Object Details

Author
Ellanna, Linda J
Sherrod, George K
Mason, Rachel 1954-
Shared Beringian Heritage Program (U.S.)
"August 2004."
"Research for the study was conducted in the early 1990's as part of the One Man's Heritage Project within the National Park Service's Shared Beringian Heritage Program."--P. iii.
Contents
Introduction to the study: Introduction -- Study design -- Quest for data -- geographical, sociocultural, historical, and intellectual contexts: Geographical context -- Sociocultural context -- Context of Euro-American contact -- Conceptions of hunters and herders in the intellectual climate of the 1800s -- Hope and promise of Ublasaun: a herder's story -- Introduction of reindeer herding and missionary education: historical overview -- Home range to range wars: Introduction -- Resource use, settlement patterns, and land tenure and polity on Northern Seward Peninsula -- Americanization of the Last Frontier: Creation of private and public lands -- Hunting territories, mobility, and herding: Attempts at alienation and commoditization -- Implications for Ublasaun -- Myth of the Egalitarian Society: Introduction -- Stratification, leadership, and gender in Inupiat societies of Northwest Alaska -- Creation of a "Civilized" Social order -- Umialiit of deer -- Implications for Ublasaun -- Creation of "Heaven": Introduction -- Inupiat Order of the Universe -- Missionaries, genesis, and the order of the Protestant Universe -- Inupiat ideology, Protestant Christianity, and Syncretism -- Implications for Ublasaun -- Conflict and compromise: Legacy of reindeer herding in Alaska: Implications for Ublasaun: Retrospective -- Glossary
2004
2004]
Call number
E99.E7 E453 2004
Type
Books
Physical description
ix, 227 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm
Place
Alaska
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve (Alaska)
Smithsonian Libraries
Topic
Inupiat
Reindeer herding--History
Record ID
siris_sil_759718
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0