List of Figures ............................................... vii
List of Tables ................................................. xi
Foreword ..................................................... xiii
From 1959 to 2014: Personal Observations on 55 Years of
Change
Nelson H.H. Graburn
Editor's Preface ............................................... xv
1 From Boas to Burch: Eskimology Transitions ................... 1
Igor Krupnik
PART I: EARLY SCIENCE ABOUT THE INUIT
2 Between Science and Politics: The Eskimology of Hinrich
Johannes Rink ............................................... 35
Ole Marquardt
3 Samuel Petrus Kleinschmidt 1814-1886: The Originator of
Scientific Inuit Grammar .................................... 55
Jerrold M. Sadock
4 Franz Boas and the Inuit: Beyond the Baffin Island Years .... 73
One Field Season and 50-Year Career: Franz Boas and Early
Eskimology .................................................. 73
Igor Krupnik
Franz Boas's English Publications on Inuit and the Arctic
(1884-1926): A Bibliographical Survey ....................... 83
Ludger Müller-Wille
Collecting at a Distance: The Boas-Mutch-Comer
Collaboration ............................................... 89
Kenn Harper
5 Knud Rasmussen: Explorer, Ethnographer, and Narrator ....... 111
Kirsten Hastrup
PART II: CONCEPTS AND METHODS IN EARLY ESKIMOLOGY
6 The Concepts of Paleo- and Neo-Eskimo Cultures: The Danish
Tradition from H.P. Steensby and His Students, G. Hatt,
K. Birket-Smith, and Th. Mathiassen, to Their Successors,
H. Larsen and J. Meldgaard .................................. 139
Hans Christian Gulløv
7 Solving the "Eskimo Problem": Henry Bascom Collins and
Arctic Archaeology .......................................... 165
William W. Fitzhugh
8 The Bogoras Project and Yupik Eskimo Linguistics in Russia .. 193
Nikolai Vakhtin
9 Frederica de Laguna: The Last Arctic Universalist and
Bridge to the Future ........................................ 219
William W. Fitzhugh
PART III: ESKIMOLOGY: MATURITY AND CHANGEOVER
10 The Formation of Danish Eskimology: From William
Thalbitzer to the Greenland Home Rule Era ................... 245
Søren Thuesen
11 Albert C. Heinrich and the Post-World War II Trajectory
of (Alaskan) Inuit Kinship Studies .......................... 265
Peter P. Schweitzer
12 A Retrospective on the Development and Practice of Alaska
Eskimo Ethnohistory, 1940-1985 .............................. 289
Kenneth L. Pratt
13 The Legacy of Charles Campbell Hughes: Studying the
Sivuqaghmiit (St. Lawrence Island Yupik) in a Time of
Change ...................................................... 322
Carol Zane Jolles
14 The Power of Maps: Inuit Land Use and Occupancy Project
(1976) as a Landmark in Inuit Land Use Studies .............. 354
Claudio Aporta
15 Closing the (Arctic) Circle: Ernest S. Burch and the
"Peoples of the Arctic" Map ................................. 374
Igor Krupnik
Coda ........................................................... 410
A Reminiscence of Transition, 1992-2012
Béatrice Collignon
Contributors ................................................... 417
Index .......................................................... 423
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