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Dawn in Arctic Alaska (Paperback, New edition): Diamond Jenness Dawn in Arctic Alaska (Paperback, New edition)
Diamond Jenness
R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Karluk had disappeared. Whether the vessel had freed itself from the ice and steamed eastward, or whether, still imprisoned, it had been carried by the ice westward, we could not know. In any case it was gone, leaving our hunting party of six men marooned on a sandy islet surrounded by thin ice and open water. The wind finally died away, in the calm air the water rapidly froze over again, and on September 30 we crossed with our two sleds to the mainland.
In 1913 a young ethnologist from New Zealand boarded a ship for the Arctic, beginning a personal journey that was to make Diamond Jenness one of the twentieth century's foremost authorities on Alaskan Eskimos. Jenness had been asked to join the Stefansson expedition, and his official duties were to collect ethnographic details on the Eskimos--their culture, technology, religion, and social organization. His account of the expedition was published as People of the Twilight in 1928, but Jenness also kept a diary of his three years among the Eskimos. He was eventually persuaded to publish it as Dawn in Arctic Alaska.
Predating the genre of personal ethnographies that has become so popular and important today, Jenness's tales blend his keen observations of the Arctic and its people with his own reflections and sensory experiences. He expresses great adimiration for the customs and character of the Eskimos and great regret and disappointment over the destruction of their lifeway through contact with white men.

The Northern D'Entrecasteaux (Hardcover): Diamond Jenness, Andrew Ballantyne The Northern D'Entrecasteaux (Hardcover)
Diamond Jenness, Andrew Ballantyne
R941 Discovery Miles 9 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Northern D'Entrecasteaux (Paperback): Diamond Jenness, Andrew Ballantyne The Northern D'Entrecasteaux (Paperback)
Diamond Jenness, Andrew Ballantyne
R655 Discovery Miles 6 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The WSANEC and Their Neighbours - Diamond Jenness on the Coast Salish of Vancouver Island, 1935 (Paperback): Barnett Richling The WSANEC and Their Neighbours - Diamond Jenness on the Coast Salish of Vancouver Island, 1935 (Paperback)
Barnett Richling; Diamond Jenness
R523 Discovery Miles 5 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Three Athapaskan Ethnographies - Diamond Jenness on the Sekani, Tsuu T'ina and Wet'suwet'en, 1921-1924... Three Athapaskan Ethnographies - Diamond Jenness on the Sekani, Tsuu T'ina and Wet'suwet'en, 1921-1924 (Paperback)
Diamond Jenness, Barnett Richling
R769 Discovery Miles 7 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Indians of Canada (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Diamond Jenness The Indians of Canada (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Diamond Jenness
R1,560 Discovery Miles 15 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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. The second part of the book describes the tribes in different groupings: the migratory tribbes of the eastern woodlands, the plains tribes, tribes of the Pacific coast, of the Cordillera, and the Mackenzie and Yukon River basins, and finally the Eskimo.

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