Orientation systems of the North Pacific Rim /
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Author / Creator: | Fortescue, Michael D. |
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Imprint: | Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2011. |
Description: | 138 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Monographs on Greenland ; v. 352. Man & society ; v. 42 Meddelelser om Grønland ; bd. 352. Meddelelser om Grønland. Man & society ; 42. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8828461 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Wakashan family: coast vs. inlet
- 3. Tsimshianic: riverine and coastal
- 4. Haida: an isolated "large island" system
- 5. Alaskan Na-Dene
- 6. Eskimo orientation revisited
- 7. Aleut: an archipelagoan system
- 8. Chukotian systems: nomadic vs. sedentary
- 9. Eskimo-Chukchi interaction at Bering Strait
- 10. Nomadic and riverine neighbours of the Chukotians
- 11. Nivkh: fishers and hunters of the lower Amur-and beyond
- 12. Of fire and water
- 13. Conclusions
- Appendix 1. The languages of the survey
- Appendix 2. Directional affixes and clitics in the languages of the Northwest Coast
- Sources