San Antonio College Library

Revised and extended version of 1936 edition. General account of Eskimo tribes based on author's personal experiences and published accounts.

Alaska trooper Nathan Active investigates a rash of suicides in an Eskimo village. The villagers blame a family curse, but Active, an Eskimo raised by whites, thinks a human hand is at work.

Describes the art of Greenland from the earliest times to the present.

A description and analysis of the changes that took place in the culture of the area from 1650 to 1898 from the first reports received in Siberia about Alaskan Eskimos to the time of the gold rush.

"Karluk One is a remarkable archaeological site. For six hundred years, the Alutiiq built houses upon houses, preserving layer after layer of their ways of life. When fresh water from a nearby pond seeped through the deposit, the massive mound of cultural debris became suspended in time. Yet the site's location at the mouth of a once-salmon-rich river meant it could disappear at any moment. Working together, researchers and community members recovered...

Ethnographic description of traditional way of life of Netsilingmiut based on data collected during field trips among Arviligjvarmiut of Pelly Bay, NWT, 1959-65.

"He has spent nearly three decades studying, learning from, crusading for, and thinking about hunter-gatherers, who survive at the margins of the vast, fertile lands occupied by farming peoples and their descendants, now the great majority of the world's population. In material terms, the hunters have been all but vanquished, yet in this profound and passionate book, Brody utterly dispels the notion that theirs is a lesser way of life."--Jacket.