Arctic Adaptations: Native Whalers and Reindeer Herders of Northern Eurasia (Arctic Visions Series) by Igor Krupnik, Marcia Levenson (Editor), Marcia Levenson (Translator) - 1993-12-01

Dartmouth. Used - Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

Dartmouth, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Hanover: University Press of New England, 1993. Hardcover. Good +/very good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". xvii, 355pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in gray cloth over boards with spine lettered in silver. Very occasional inked underlining to pages. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The common view of indigenous Arctic cultures, even among scholarly observers, has long been one of communities continually in ecological harmony with their natural environment. In Arctic Adaptations, Igor Krupnik dismisses the textbook notion of traditional societies as static. Using information from years of field research, interviews with native Siberians, and archaeological site visits, Krupnik demonstrates that these societies are characterized not by stability but by dynamism and significant evolutionary breaks. Their apparent state of ecological harmony is, in fact, a conscious survival strategy resulting from "a prolonged and therefore successful process of… Read More

Dartmouth, 1993-12-01. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text and images are unmarked. The dust jacket is in a mylar cover. xvii, 355pp.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hanover, NH & London: University Press of New England (Dartmouth College), 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Expanded English edition translated & edited by Marcia Levenson. Grey cloth, foil titles on spine, xix, 355, [3] pp, 11 photos, 14 figures, notes, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "...Krupnik dismisses the textbook notion of traditional societies as static. Using information from years of field research, interviews with native Siberians, and archaeological site visits, Krupnik demonstrates that these societies are characterized not by stability but by dynamism and significant evolutionary breaks." Contents: arctic context & research design; sea-mammal hunters of the arctic coast; reindeer pastoralists of the inland tundra; the challenge of change in the arctic environment; the rise of reindeer pastoralism in the arctic; the evolution of maritime hunting; the aboriginal hunter in the… Read More

Dartmouth, 1993-12-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!