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Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1602232342
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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This is a comprehensive treatment of one of Alaska’s oldest ancestral languages. Through its 19,000 entries and thirty-one appendices—with categories such as kin terms, names of constellations, and a list of explanations—the dictionary is an exceptional blend of linguistic and cultural references.
Author: Daniel Siddiqi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351810278
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages is a one-stop reference for linguists on those topics that come up the most frequently in the study of the languages of North America (including Mexico). This handbook compiles a list of contributors from across many different theories and at different stages of their careers, all of whom are well-known experts in North American languages. The volume comprises two distinct parts: the first surveys some of the phenomena most frequently discussed in the study of North American languages, and the second surveys some of the most frequently discussed language families of North America. The consistent goal of each contribution is to couch the content of the chapter in contemporary theory so that the information is maximally relevant and accessible for a wide range of audiences, including graduate students and young new scholars, and even senior scholars who are looking for a crash course in the topics. Empirically driven chapters provide fundamental knowledge needed to participate in contemporary theoretical discussions of these languages, making this handbook an indispensable resource for linguistics scholars.
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Iñupiaq to English language dictionary covering both the Kobuk and Coastal Malimiut dialects. Included in the appendices are: an Iñupiaq word finder, verbs ending classifications, noun endings, postbases, and demonstrative adverbs and pronouns. The dictionary also contains a grammatical primer in the introduction.
Author: Liz Gunner
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 0870139223
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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In Musho! Zulu Popular Praises Elizabeth Gunner, an authority on Zulu literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and Mafika Gwala, a South African teacher and poet, have translated, transcribed, and annotated a wide variety of Zulu izibongo poetry. In so doing, they have revealed the incredible breadth of this traditional genre, which is usually equated with nineteenth-century epic traditions that celebrate the deeds of Shaka and the successor kings of his Zulu monarchy. Musho!, with its extensive historical introduction, and literary commentary on Zulu poetry, is a major contribution to the field.
Author: Donald H. Webster
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Category : Inupiaq dialect
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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Author: Ernest S. Burch
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1889963925
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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This landmark volume will stand for decades as one of the most comprehensive studies of a hunter-gatherer population ever written. In this third and final volume in a series on the early contact period Iñupiaq Eskimos of northwestern Alaska, Burch examines every topic of significance to hunter-gatherer research, ranging from discussions of social relationships and settlement structure to nineteenth-century material culture.
Author: Edna Ahgeak MacLean
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Dictionary of Inuit language used in Alaska--includes approximately 3,400 entries in the Barrow (North Slope of Alaska) dialect. Three sections: Inupiaq noun and verb stems with English trnaslations, Inupiaq post bases with English trnaslations, and English words with Inupiaq translations. Intended for classroom and general use.
Author: Maria Sháa Tláa Williams
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822390833
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Alaska is home to more than two hundred federally recognized tribes. Yet the long histories and diverse cultures of Alaska’s first peoples are often ignored, while the stories of Russian fur hunters and American gold miners, of salmon canneries and oil pipelines, are praised. Filled with essays, poems, songs, stories, maps, and visual art, this volume foregrounds the perspectives of Alaska Native people, from a Tlingit photographer to Athabascan and Yup’ik linguists, and from an Alutiiq mask carver to a prominent Native politician and member of Alaska’s House of Representatives. The contributors, most of whom are Alaska Natives, include scholars, political leaders, activists, and artists. The majority of the pieces in The Alaska Native Reader were written especially for the volume, while several were translated from Native languages. The Alaska Native Reader describes indigenous worldviews, languages, arts, and other cultural traditions as well as contemporary efforts to preserve them. Several pieces examine Alaska Natives’ experiences of and resistance to Russian and American colonialism; some of these address land claims, self-determination, and sovereignty. Some essays discuss contemporary Alaska Native literature, indigenous philosophical and spiritual tenets, and the ways that Native peoples are represented in the media. Others take up such diverse topics as the use of digital technologies to document Native cultures, planning systems that have enabled indigenous communities to survive in the Arctic for thousands of years, and a project to accurately represent Dena’ina heritage in and around Anchorage. Fourteen of the volume’s many illustrations appear in color, including work by the contemporary artists Subhankar Banerjee, Perry Eaton, Erica Lord, and Larry McNeil.
Author: Norman Allee Chance
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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This account of the social, economic and political conditions of the Inupiat people of the north slope area of Alaska covers their history, traditions and adaptation to current industrial activity such as oil explorations, with a case study of the village of Kaktovik.
Author: William A. Oquilluk
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Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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LEGENDS OF THE NORTHERN ESKIMO.
