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1) Eskimo art
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The history of Eskimo art from prehistoric to modern times well illustrated with color and black and white photographs.
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Full-page color photos illustrate stunning pieces from the collection of the Canadian Museum of Civilization as well as treasures from James Houston's collection. Houston, author of one of three contributed essays, is an authority on Inuit art by virtue of 50 years of contact and study. The works are organized by geographic area to illustrate regional distinctions. Each is accompanied by brief commentary about and by the artist. The book is 9.25x11.5"....
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Examines the negative impacts humans have had on the native population, wildlife, and ecology of the arctic. Evokes the lifestyle of the arctic peoples, describes the erosion of this culture under the impact of colonialism, and makes an indisputable case for a common collaboration to save the arctic from further despoilation.
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Dorothy Jean Ray describes her collection of nearly one hundred Eskimo artifacts, now part of the University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, and provides an engaging and colorful history of her own pioneering work as an anthropologist, researcher, and writer. Functioning both as a catalog and memoir, the book combines the formal, analytical description of each object with an informal discussion of the author's relationships with the artists and others...
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"The story of the Blind Man and the Loon is a living Native folktale about a blind man who is betrayed by his mother or wife but whose vision is magically restored by a kind loon. Variations of this tale are told by Native storytellers all across Alaska, arctic Canada, Greenland, the Northwest Coast, and even into the Great Basin and the Great Plains. As the story has traveled through cultures and ecosystems over many centuries, individual storytellers...
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There is no question that native cultures in the New World exhibit many forms of mathematical development. This Native American mathematics can best be described by considering the nature of the concepts found in a variety of individual New World cultures. Unlike modern mathematics in which numbers and concepts are expressed in universal mathematical notation, the numbers and concepts found in native cultures occur and are expressed in many distinctive...
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"The second edition of this wide-ranging survey of writing in English by Canadian Native peoples brings together in one volume some of the best work from a literature that comprises a valuable part of Canadian culture. Beginning with traditional songs, the anthology goes on to feature prose passages by such early figures as Joseph Brant and John Brant-Sero, works by such well-known writers as George Copway and Pauline Johnson, and a fascinating selection...
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""Upside Down: Arctic Realities" is an ambitious project that presents rare and significant artifacts from the arctic region. These works, from ancient periods, ranging from 1000 BC to 1400 AD, and from major sites, including Ekven in Russia, Ipiutak in Alaska, and Old Bering Sea cultures, explore the relationship of the aesthetics of native cultures to their remote environment. Selected from international private and public collections, the objects...
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