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Life and survival in the Arctic : cultural changes in polar regions / edited by G.W. Nooter.

Title
Life and survival in the Arctic : cultural changes in polar regions / edited by G.W. Nooter.
Publication
The Hague, Netherlands : Govt. Pub. Office, 1984.

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Additional Authors
Nooter, G. W.
Description
151 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.
Summary
Translation of "Over leven en Overleven, cultuurveranderingen in de poolgebieden". A series of essays by various authors on cultural change by arctic native peoples including the Saami, Nivkh, Oroch, Ainu, Inuit of Alaska, Canada and Greenland. Choice of cultures was based on the collections in the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde in Leiden and the Museum voor het Onderwijs in The Hague.
Series Statement
Ethnological serie Verre naasten naderbij
Uniform Title
  • Over leven en overleven. English.
  • Volkenkundige reeks Verre naasten naderbij.
Subject
  • Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde (Netherlands)
  • Arctic peoples
  • Acculturation > Arctic regions
  • Sami (European people)
  • Gilyaks
  • Oroch (Asian people)
  • Ainu
  • Yuit Eskimos
  • Inuit
  • Arctic regions > Social conditions
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • Translation of: Over leven en overleven.
  • Written on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Leiden museum from June 1984 to September 1985.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 147-151.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The Saami people / Nellejet Zorgdrager -- The Nivkh and the Oroch / Cunera Buijs -- The Ainu / Willem van Gulik -- From utensils to art / Afke Koek -- How Ukpaktoor lost his buttock and what he got in exchange for it / Cornelius Remie -- 1884-1984, a century of changes in East Greenland / Gerti Nooter.
ISBN
9012048052 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^86144152^
OCLC
  • 13944293
  • SCSB-13274247
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library