Alliance and Conflict: The World System of the Inupiaq Eskimos.(Book review)

From: Arctic | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: Hosley, Edward | Copyright information

ALLIANCE AND CONFLICT: THE WORLD SYSTEM OF THE INUPIAQ ESKIMOS. By ERNEST S. BURCH, Jr. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, the Arctic Institute of North America, and University of Nebraska Press, 2005. ISBN 1-55238-142-0. Northern Lights Series. No. 8. xv + 383 p., maps, b & w illus., notes, bib., appendices, index. Softbound. Cdn$54.95.

This work by Ernest S. Burch Jr. is a detailed examination of intersocietal relations among the Inupiaq Eskimo (pl. Inupiat) of nort...

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