Product Description: First published in 1922, The Life of the Copper Eskimos has long been regarded as a classic of Arctic ethnography. In this groundbreaking work, pioneer anthropologist Diamond Jenness describes in vivid detail the everyday interactions, practices, customs, and beliefs of the Copper Inuit (Inuinnait) with whom he lived from 1914 to 1916--people who were, at the time, barely touched by contact with the Western world...read more

Product Description: In 1926 New Zealander Diamond Jenness was appointed chief of anthropology at the National Museum of Canada. For the next twenty-two years he sought to expand the Museum’s exhibits, anthropological collections, and reputation, and to improve the recognition, understanding, and living conditions of Canada’s Native peoples...read more

Product Description: These myths and traditions were collected along the Arctic coast between December, 1913, and June, 1916. They are divided into two parts: the first comprises the Alaskan stories, with which are included one story from the Siberian coast and four others from the Mackenzie river delta; the second comprises the tales collected among the Copper Eskimos, from the regions of Dolphin and Union strait and Coronation gulf...read more

Product Description: The Arctic Odyssey of Diamond Jenness, presented here with the immediacy and humanity of a private journal, simply could not now happen. That Arctic world of 1913-165 no longer exists. Its climate and geography remain, but the people, their ways of living, feeling, thinking, believing, and behaving, vanished and are now only lost, vague memories in a few, very old minds...read more

Product Description: The Arctic Odyssey of Diamond Jenness, presented here with the immediacy and humanity of a private journal, simply could not now happen. That Arctic world of 1913-165 no longer exists. Its climate and geography remain, but the people, their ways of living, feeling, thinking, believing, and behaving, vanished and are now only lost, vague memories in a few, very old minds...read more

Product Description: First published in 1932, The Indians of Canada remains the most comprehensive works available on Canada's Indians. Part one includes chapters on languages, economic conditions, food resources, hunting and fishing, dress and adornment, dwellings, travel and transportation, trade and commerce, social and political organization, social life, religion, folklore and traditions, and drama, music, and art...read more