THE 1926/27 SOVIET POLAR CENSUS

EXPEDITIONS

“This a much-welcome addition to the modern English-language reference library on Siberian indigenous people and the first book-size effort to address their plight and status from the perspective of the Russian archival statistical and documentary records of the early 1900s. It is an outcome of a monumental collaborative project.”  •  Igor Krupnik, Smithsonian Institution

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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND DEMOGRAPHY

The Complex Relation between Identity and

Statistics

In this volume, anthropologists, historians, demographers and sociologists have come together for the first time to examine the historical and contemporary construct of indigenous people in a number of fascinating geographical contexts around the world, including Canada, the United States, Colombia, Russia, Scandinavia, the Balkans and Australia.

COPING WITH DISTANCES

Producing Nordic Atlantic

Societies

“Baerenholdt’s compelling work addresses themes and ideas that extend well beyond the North Atlantic…His well-researched, intriguing study delves into theories of social formation as well as the histories and intricacies of historical and modern Nordic societies… presents the complexity of social formation in the Nordic Atlantic in an in-depth and approachable format.”  •  Choice

UNVEILING THE WHALE

Discourses on Whales and

Whaling

“...a unique work. Surprisingly, perhaps, given the prominence of its subject, there is nothing comparable in the literature. It draws on the author’s decades-long devotion to the topic. As a result, it is rich in its command of the academic, policy, and popular literatures on the subject. It is, simply put, authoritative. It is also convincing.”   •  Michael Dove, Yale University

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NORDIC PATHS TO

MODERNITY

“…the chapters are lucidly composed, and consequently pleasant to read…The introduction by the editors is very fine indeed…I find something compellingly interesting everywhere in the text. The combination of theory, conception and fact is quite gracefully handled. No heavy-footed jargon here.”  •  Sheldon Rothblatt, University of California, Berkeley

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CULTIVATING ARCTIC LANDSCAPES

Knowing and Managing Animals in the Circumpolar

North

"The edited work contains one of the most interesting sets of northern papers to appear in a very long time...each paper is excellent...this book will hopefully provoke considerable thought...This is a work that should be discussed in terms of the particulars of the various papers, but also for the overview it provides." - Polar Record

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NAMES AND NUNAVUT

Culture and Identity in the Inuit

Homeland

NOMINATED FOR THE PIERRE SAVARD AWARD

“…a thought-provoking book. Alia lays out the intricacies of Inuit naming so clearly, describes the Arctic environment so vividly, and conveys such a rich sense of Inuit values, concerns, and humour that readers are likely to hunger for more information and to pose ethnographic and on mastic questions that press forward the horizons of Inuit ethnography…”  •  NAMES A Journal of Onomastics

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HUNTERS IN THE BARRENS

The Naskapi on the Edge of the White Man's

World

This comprehensive study of the Naskapi Indians of Labrador is based on an anthropologist’s life with them between 1966 and 1968, when families still followed the traditional pattern of hunting on the barrens during the winter and returning to their costal settlements in the summer. This description of two antithetical worlds provides valuable insights for anyone interested in contemporary native rights issues.

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Sibirica

Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian

Studies

Volume 10, Issue 2

Sibirica is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal covering all aspects of the region and relations to neighboring areas, such as Central Asia, China, Japan, Korea, and North America.
The journal publishes articles, research reports, conference and book reviews on history, politics, economics, geography, cultural studies, anthropology, and environmental studies. It provides a forum for scholars representing a wide variety of disciplines from around the world to present findings and discuss topics of relevance to human activities in the region or directly relevant to Siberian studies.

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Nomadic

Peoples

Volume 15, Issue 2

Nomadic Peoples is an international journal published for the Commission on Nomadic Peoples, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Its primary concerns are the current circumstances of all nomadic peoples around the world and their prospects. Its readership includes all those interested in nomadic peoples—scholars, researchers, planners and project administrators.

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