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Anguyiim Nalliini / Time of Warring The History of Bow-and-Arrow Warfare in Southwest Alaska

Fienup-Riordan Ann

ISBN: PB: 9781602232914, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2016
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 16 colour plates, 8 maps

This book draws on little-known oral histories from the Yup'ik people of southwest Alaska to detail a period of bow-and-arrow warfare that took place in the region between 1300 and 1800. The result of more than thirty years of research, discussion, a...

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America

Attu Boy A Young Alaskan's WWII Memoir

Golodoff Nick

ISBN: PB: 9781602232495, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2015
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 photos, 2 maps, 2 charts

In the quiet of morning, exactly six months after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese touched down on American soil. Landing on the remote Alaska island of Attu, they assailed an entire village, holding the Alaskan villagers for two months and eventually corr...

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Children's Books

Travel

Alaska on the Go Exploring the 49th State with Children

Kirkland Erin

ISBN: PB: 9781602232211, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2014
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

Nearly two million people visit Alaska every year, drawn to its spectacular views and endless activities. But with such size and so many options, it can seem overwhelming when it comes to planning a family vacation to the 49th state. The best place t...

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Law

Alaska Natives and American Laws Third Edition

Case David S., Voluck David A.

ISBN: PB: 9781602231757, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2012
600 pp., 23x15 cm

Now in its third edition, "Alaska Natives and American Laws" is still the only work of its kind, canvassing federal law and its history as applied to the indigenous peoples of Alaska. Covering 1867 through 2011, the authors offer lucid explanations o...

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Anthropology

Archaeology & Paleontology

Alutiit/Sugpiat A Catalog of the Collections of the Kunstkamera

Berezkin Yuri E.

ISBN: HB: 9781602231771, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2012
440 pp., 29x24 cm, 654 colour illus.

This beautifully photographed book catalogs the collection of nearly five hundred Alutiiq cultural items held by the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, or the Kunstkamera, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Gathered between 1780 and 1867...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries

Moss Madonna L., Cannon Aubrey

ISBN: PB: 9781602231467, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2012
312 pp., 25.5x18 cm

For thousands of years, fisheries were crucial to the sustenance of the First Peoples of the Pacific Coast. Yet human impact has left us with a woefully incomplete understanding of their histories prior to the industrial era. Covering Alaska, British...

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Anthropology

Travel

Ahtna Travel Narratives A Demonstration of Shared Geographic Knowledge among Alaska Athabascans

Kari James

ISBN: PB + CD: 9781555001056, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2011
143 pp., 27x22 cm, 22 maps, 23 halftones

Among the world's foremost pedestrian foragers, the Ahtna tribe possesses a profound system of geographic knowledge that has facilitated travel and spatial cognition in Ahtna and other Athabascan languages. Shedding light on a number of precise lands...

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Photography

Arctic Sanctuary Images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Jones Jeff

ISBN: HB: 9781602230880, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2010
173 pp., 22.8x35.5 cm, 162 colour illus.

Guided by photographer Jeff Jones's sure and well-developed vision, "Arctic Sanctuary" leads the reader on a remarkable journey that few of us will ever take in real life: a trek deep into Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. By turns celebrator...

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America

General

Alaska Native Cultures and Issues Responses to Frequently Asked Questions

Roderick Libby

ISBN: PB: 9781602230910, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
102 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 16 halftones

Making up more than ten percent of Alaska's population, Native Alaskans are the state's largest minority group. Yet most non-Native Alaskans know surprisingly little about the histories and cultures of their indigenous neighbors, or about the importa...

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Anthropology

Aleutian Ethnography

Turner Lucien

ISBN: PB: 9781602230392, ISBN: HB: 9781602230286, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 50 halftones

Lucien Turner was a pioneering nineteenth-century ethnographer whose study of Aleut communities surpassed the work of all of his contemporaries, and now his rare writings are collected here for the first time. Turner's admittedly fragmentary ethnogra...

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