This fascinating monograph employs a world system model as the basis for archaeological investigation of Russian America that relates local findings to global patterns. Author Aron Crowell examines Russian, Spanish, and American historical sources along with the archaeological evidence to uncover a preliterate culture that left no written record ...
Jason Wood has been photographing Kodiak bears for more than seven years in Alaska. In this book he presents the fruits of his labors and offers insights into the behaviors of these fascinating and occasionally dangerous creatures.
Longtime Alaska-phile Sam Keith set himself the task of writing about an amazing encounter with the frozen north: that of his friend Richard Proenneke, who left his native Iowa in 1967 at the age of 50 to live in the unspoiled Twin Lakes country west of Anchorage. Proenneke kept a journal of the experience, from which Keith has drawn this ...
Masks are an ancient tradition of the Alutiiq people on the southern coast of Alaska. Alutiiq artists carved the masks from wood or bark into images of ancestors, animal spirits, and other mythological forces; these extraordinary creations have been an essential tool for communicating with the spirit world and have played an important role in ...
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