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Ultimate Americans: Point Hope Alaska: 1826-1909
University of Alaska Press, 2008 Cloth: 978-1-60223-027-9 | Paper: 978-1-60223-038-5 Library of Congress Classification E99.E7L694 2008 Dewey Decimal Classification 979.87
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The third volume in a series on Point Hope, Alaska, Ultimate Americans examines the first encounters between the native Tikigaq people and Anglo-Americans during the nineteenth century. Tom Lowenstein investigates the interactions between Native Alaskans, commercial whalemen, and missionaries in Point Hope, charting the destabilizing elements of alcohol and disease among Native populations, as well as cultural collisions and the eventual mutual assimilation of the groups. An in-depth historical chronicle, Ultimate Americans will be invaluable reading for historians, ethnographers, and anthropologists alike. See other books on: Alaska | Assimilation (Sociology) | First contact with Europeans | Russians | Whaling See other titles from University of Alaska Press |
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Ultimate Americans: Point Hope Alaska: 1826-1909
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
University of Alaska Press, 2008
Cloth: 978-1-60223-027-9
Paper: 978-1-60223-038-5
Cloth: 978-1-60223-027-9
Paper: 978-1-60223-038-5
The third volume in a series on Point Hope, Alaska, Ultimate Americans examines the first encounters between the native Tikigaq people and Anglo-Americans during the nineteenth century. Tom Lowenstein investigates the interactions between Native Alaskans, commercial whalemen, and missionaries in Point Hope, charting the destabilizing elements of alcohol and disease among Native populations, as well as cultural collisions and the eventual mutual assimilation of the groups. An in-depth historical chronicle, Ultimate Americans will be invaluable reading for historians, ethnographers, and anthropologists alike.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
