Ciuliamta Akluit/Things of Our Ancestors

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Publisher : UBS Publishers' Distributors
ISBN 13 : 9780295984711
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (847 download)

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Book Synopsis Ciuliamta Akluit/Things of Our Ancestors by : Ann Fienup-Riordan

Download or read book Ciuliamta Akluit/Things of Our Ancestors written by Ann Fienup-Riordan and published by UBS Publishers' Distributors. This book was released on 2005 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1880s, the Norwegian-born traveler Johan Adrian Jacobsen spent a year in Alaska and amassed an unprecedented collection of Yup'ik material culture that eventually made its way to Germany’s most prominent ethnographic museum. More than a century later, a delegation of Yup'ik elders and educators from Bethel, Alaska, joined cultural anthropologists and museum professionals at the Berlin Ethnologisches Museum to examine and interpret Jacobsen's collection, one of the world’s largest and most impressive Yup'ik collections. Things of Our Ancestors is a record of this unusual meeting of minds and cultures. Evoking the stories and experiences that the cultural artifacts embody, the Yup'ik elders examine and discuss these objects made by their ancestors, reclaiming knowledge on the verge of being lost. For this Yup'ik-English bilingual book, anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan has chosen stories and accounts of the Berlin exchange that best describe the collection and the visit. The narrative is accompanied by 66 photographs of this unusual episode of cultural revival. This book will prove a treasure for Yup’ik readers, linguists, folklorists, anthropologists, and historians, and will hold much interest for anyone concerned with Native American oral tradition.

Yup'ik Elders at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin

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ISBN 13 : 9780295985268
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Yup'ik Elders at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin written by Dr Ann Fienup-Riordan, PH.D and published by . This book was released on 2005-06-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norwegian adventurer Johan Adrian Jacobsen collected more than two thousand Yup'ik objects during his travels in Alaska in 1882 and 1883. Now housed in the Berlin Ethnological Museum, the Jacobsen collection remains one of the earliest and largest from Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. When Ann Fienup-Riordan first saw the collection being unpacked in 1994, she was "stunned to find this extraordinary Yup'ik collection, with accession records still handwritten in old German script and almost completely unpublished." In 1997, Fienup-Riordan and Yup'ik translator Marie Meade returned to Berlin with a delegation of Yup'ik elders to study Jacobsen's collection. Yup'ik Elders at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin recounts fourteen days during which the elders examined objects from the collection and described how they were made and used. Their descriptions, based on oral history and firsthand experience with similar objects, are imparted through songs, stories, and personal narratives. Woven together with Jacobsen's writings, technical descriptions, and accession information, the narrative presents a vast array of knowledge. For example, Jacobsen had observed that large grass mats were woven for use as sleeping mats in houses and were often taken on journeys; a Yup'ik elder demonstrates how the grass mat would be folded and fitted into a kayak. Another elder describes a dance in which fox masks similar to those in the collection were used. Yet another elder, inspired by a carving of a paalraayak, launches into a story about the creature, which was sometimes encountered in the mountains near her home. An introductory essay describes Jacobsen's life and trip to Alaska and the region as it was then and as it is today. Informal snapshots show the elders interacting with the objects and miming their use, while Barry McWayne's large color photographs make possible the "visual repatriation" of this extraordinary collection. "Yup'ik Elders at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin" also includes extensive notes summarizing accession information, a glossary of Yup'ik object names, and a detailed index. This is the first time a major Arctic collection has been presented from the Natives' point of view, an example of "reverse fieldwork" that can enrich understanding of Native American collections the world over.

Wise Words of the Yup'ik People

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803269129
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Wise Words of the Yup'ik People by : Ann Fienup-Riordan

Download or read book Wise Words of the Yup'ik People written by Ann Fienup-Riordan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yup'ik people of southwestern Alaska were some of the last Arctic peoples to come into contact with non-Natives, and as a result, Yup?ik language and many traditions remain vital into the twenty-first century. Wise Words of the Yup?ik People documents their qanruyutet (adages, words of wisdom, and oral instructions) regarding the proper living of life. Throughout history, these distinctive wise words have guided the relations between men and women, parents and children, siblings and cousins, fellow villagers, visitors, strangers, and even with non-Natives. Yup?ik elders have chosen to share these wise words during Calista Elders Council gatherings and conventions since 1998 for instrumental reasons?because of their continued relevance and power to change lives. ø The Calista Elders Council, which represents some thirteen hundred Yup'ik elders, recently spearheaded efforts at cultural revitalization through gatherings with younger community members. In describing the content of traditional instruction as well as its central motivation??We talk to you because we love you??elders not only educate Yup?ik young people but also open a window into their view of the world for all of us. ø Wise Words of the Yup?ik People will serve as a valuable resource for the Yup'ik people and those who wish to learn more about their lives and values.

This Is Our Life

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Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774825421
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Book Synopsis This Is Our Life by : Cara Krmpotich

Download or read book This Is Our Life written by Cara Krmpotich and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 2009, twenty-one members of the Haida Nation went to the Pitt Rivers Museum and the British Museum to work with several hundred heritage treasures. Featuring contributions from all the participants and a rich selection of illustrations, This Is Our Life details the remarkable story of the Haida Project � from the planning to the encounter and through the years that followed. A fascinating look at the meaning behind objects, the value of repatriation, and the impact of historical trajectories like colonialism, this is also a story of the understanding that grew between the Haida people and museum staff.

Historical Dictionary of the Inuit

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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810879123
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of the Inuit by : Pamela R. Stern

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Inuit written by Pamela R. Stern and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Inuit provides a history of the indigenous peoples of North Alaska, arctic Canada including Labrador, and Greenland. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Inuits.

Qanemcit Amllertut/Many Stories to Tell

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Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602233365
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Qanemcit Amllertut/Many Stories to Tell by : Alice Rearden

Download or read book Qanemcit Amllertut/Many Stories to Tell written by Alice Rearden and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This bilingual collection shares new translations of old stories recorded over the last four decades though interviews with Yup’ik elders from throughout southwest Alaska. Some are true qulirat (traditional tales), while others are recent. Some are well known, like the adventures of the wily Raven, while others are rarely told. All are part of a great narrative tradition, shared and treasured by Yup’ik people into the present day. The elders and translators who contributed to this collection embrace the great irony of oral traditions: that the best way to keep these stories is to give them away. By retelling these stories, they hope to create a future in which the Yup’ik view of the world will be both recognized and valued."--Provided by publisher.

Words of the Real People

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Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602230048
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Words of the Real People by : Ann Fienup-Riordan

Download or read book Words of the Real People written by Ann Fienup-Riordan and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the oral literature, poetry, and life stories of Alaska's Native speakers of Yupik, Inupiaq, and Alutiiq, including ancient tales spanning generations as well as new traditions, accompanied by essays on each Native group's background.--(Source of description unspecified.)

Yup'ik Words of Wisdom

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080326917X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Yup'ik Words of Wisdom written by Ann Fienup-Riordan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bilingual volume focuses on the teachings, experience, and practical wisdom of expert Native orators as they instruct a younger generation about their place in the world. In carefully crafted presentations, Yup?ik elders speak about their "rules for right living"?values, beliefs, and practices?which illuminate the enduring and still relevant foundations of their culture today. While the companion volume Wise Words of the Yup'ik People weaves together hundreds of statements by Yup?ik elders on the values that guide human relationships, Yup?ik Words of Wisdom highlights the words of expert orators and focuses on key conversations that took place among elders and younger community members as the elders presented their perspectives on the moral underpinnings of Yup?ik social relations. ø The orators in this volume?including Frank Andrew from Kwigillingok, David Martin from Kipnuk, and Nelson Island elders Paul John and Thersea Moses?were raised in isolated Yup'ik communities in southeastern Alaska and were educated much like their parents and grandparents. ø Translated, edited, and organized for a general audience, this bilingual edition is for those who want to know not only what the elders have to say but also how they say it.

Collections as Relations

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040210074
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Collections as Relations by : Hansjörg Dilger

Download or read book Collections as Relations written by Hansjörg Dilger and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores anthropological and global art collections as a catalyst, a medium, and an expression of relations. Relations—between and among objects and media, people, and material and immaterial contexts—define, configure, and potentially transform collection-related social and professional networks, discourses and practices, and increasingly museums and other collecting institutions themselves. The contributors argue that a focus on the—often contested—making and remaking of relations provides a unique conceptual entrypoint for understanding collections’—and ‘their’ objects’ and media’s—complex histories, contemporary webs of interactions, and potential futures. The chapters examine the local, translocal, and transregional relations of collections with regard to their affective, aesthetic, performative, and socio-moral qualities and situate them in the larger geopolitical constellations of precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial settings. Together they investigate ongoing shifts in the relations of collections and collecting institutions by identifying alternative approaches to conceive of, and deal with, anthropological and global art collections, objects, and media in the future. The book is of interest to scholars from anthropology, global art history, museum studies, and heritage studies.

Ciulinerunak Yuuyaqunak

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Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602232970
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Ciulinerunak Yuuyaqunak by : Ann Fienup-Riordan

Download or read book Ciulinerunak Yuuyaqunak written by Ann Fienup-Riordan and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the knowledge provided by six Calista Elders Council board members: John Phillip of Kongiganak, Paul John of Toksook Bay, Nick Andrew of Marshall, Moses Paukan of St. Marys, Martin Moore of Emmonak, and Bob Aloysius of Kalskag.

Remembering Histories of Trauma

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350240648
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Remembering Histories of Trauma by : Gideon Mailer

Download or read book Remembering Histories of Trauma written by Gideon Mailer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembering Histories of Trauma compares and links Native American, First Nation and Jewish histories of traumatic memory. Using source material from both sides of the Atlantic, it examines the differences between ancestral experiences of genocide and the representation of those histories in public sites in the United States, Canada and Europe. Challenging the ways public bodies have used those histories to frame the cultural and political identity of regions, states, and nations, it considers the effects of those representations on internal group memory, external public memory and cultural assimilation. Offering new ways to understand the Native-Jewish encounter by highlighting shared critiques of public historical representation, Mailer seeks to transcend historical tensions between Native American studies and Holocaust studies. In linking and comparing European and American contexts of historical trauma and their representation in public memory, this book brings Native American studies, Jewish studies, early American history, Holocaust studies, and museum studies into conversation with each other. In revealing similarities in the public representation of Indigenous genocide and the Holocaust it offers common ground for Jewish and Indigenous histories, and provides a new framework to better understand the divergence between traumatic histories and the ways they are memorialized.

Sharing Knowledge & Cultural Heritage

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Publisher : Sidestone Press
ISBN 13 : 9088900663
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (889 download)

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Book Synopsis Sharing Knowledge & Cultural Heritage by : Laura N. K. Van Broekhoven

Download or read book Sharing Knowledge & Cultural Heritage written by Laura N. K. Van Broekhoven and published by Sidestone Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharing Knowledge & Cultural Heritage (SK & CH), First Nations of the Americas, testifies to the growing commitment of museum professionals in the twenty-first century to share collections with the descendants of people and communities from whom the collections originated. Thanks to collection histories and the documenting of relations with particular indigenous communities, it is well known that until as recently as the 1970s, museum doors - except for a handful of cases - were shut to indigenous peoples. This volume is the result of an ""expert meeting"" held in November 2007 at the National M ...

Mutuality

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081224656X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Mutuality written by Roger Sanjek and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people do social-cultural anthropology? Beyond professional career motivations, what values underpin anthropologists' commitments to lengthy training, fieldwork, writing, and publication? Mutuality explores the values that anthropologists bring from their wider social worlds, including the value placed on relationships with the people they study, work with, write about and for, and communicate with more broadly. In this volume, seventeen distinguished anthropologists draw on personal and professional histories to describe avenues to mutuality through collaborative fieldwork, community-based projects and consultations, advocacy, and museum exhibits, including the American Anthropological Association's largest public outreach ever—the RACE: Are We So Different? project. Looking critically at obstacles to reciprocally beneficial engagement, the contributors trace the discipline's past and current relations with Native Americans, indigenous peoples exhibited in early twentieth-century world's fairs, and racialized populations. The chapters range widely—across the Punjabi craft caste, Filipino Igorot, and Somali Bantu global diasporas; to the Darfur crisis and conciliation efforts in Sudan and Qatar; to applied work in Panama, Micronesia, China, and Peru. In the United States, contributors discuss their work as academic, practicing, and public anthropologists in such diverse contexts as Alaskan Yup'ik communities, multiethnic New Mexico, San Francisco's Japan Town, Oakland's Intertribal Friendship House, Southern California's produce markets, a children's ward in a Los Angeles hospital, a New England nursing home, and Washington D.C.'s National Mall. Deeply personal as well as professionally astute, Mutuality sheds new light on the issues closest to the present and future of contemporary anthropology. Contributors: Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Robert R. Alvarez, Garrick Bailey, Catherine Besteman, Parminder Bhachu, Ann Fienup-Riordan, Zibin Guo, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Lanita Jacobs, Susan Lobo, Yolanda T. Moses, Sylvia Rodríguez, Roger Sanjek, Renée R. Shield, Alaka Wali, Deana L. Weibel, Brett Williams.

About the Hearth

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857459813
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Book Synopsis About the Hearth by : David G. Anderson

Download or read book About the Hearth written by David G. Anderson and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to changing climates and demographics, questions of policy in the circumpolar north have focused attention on the very structures that people call home. Dwellings lie at the heart of many forms of negotiation. Based on years of in-depth research, this book presents and analyzes how the people of the circumpolar regions conceive, build, memorialize, and live in their dwellings. This book seeks to set a new standard for interdisciplinary work within the humanities and social sciences and includes anthropological work on vernacular architecture, environmental anthropology, household archaeology and demographics.

Anguyiim Nalliini/Time of Warring

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Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 160223292X
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Anguyiim Nalliini/Time of Warring by : Ann Fienup-Riordan

Download or read book Anguyiim Nalliini/Time of Warring written by Ann Fienup-Riordan and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on little-known oral histories from the Yup’ik people of southwest Alaska to detail a period of bow-and-arrow warfare that took place in the region between 1300 and 1800. The result of more than thirty years of research, discussion, and field recordings involving more than one hundred Yup’ik men and women, Anguyiim Nalliini tells a story not just of war and violence, but also of its cultural context—the origins of place names, the growth of indigenous architectural practices, the personalities of prominent warriors and leaders, and the eventual establishment of peaceful coexistence. The book is presented in bilingual format, with facing-page translations, and it will be hailed as a landmark work in the study of Alaska Native history and anthropology.

A Practice of Anthropology

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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773598634
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis A Practice of Anthropology by : Alex Golub

Download or read book A Practice of Anthropology written by Alex Golub and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marshall Sahlins (b. 1930) is an American anthropologist who played a major role in the development of anthropological theory in the second half of the twentieth century. Over a sixty-year career, he and his colleagues synthesized trends in evolutionary, Marxist, and ecological anthropology, moving them into mainstream thought. Sahlins is considered a critic of reductive theories of human nature, an exponent of culture as a key concept in anthropology, and a politically engaged intellectual opposed to militarism and imperialism. This collection brings together some of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists to explore and advance Sahlins’s legacy. All of the essays are based on original research, most dealing with cultural change - a major theme of Sahlins’s research, especially in the contexts of Fijian and Hawaiian societies. Like Sahlins’s practice of anthropology, these essays display a rigorous, humanistic study of cultural forms, refusing to accept comfort over accuracy, not shirking from the moral implications of their analyses. Contributors include the late Greg Dening, one of the most eminent historians of the Pacific, Martha Kaplan, Patrick Kirch, Webb Keane, Jonathan Friedman, and Joel Robbins, with a preface by the late Claude Levi-Strauss. A unique volume that will complement the many books and articles by Sahlins himself, A Practice of Anthropology is an exciting new addition to the history of anthropological study.

People, Places, and Practices in the Arctic

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000772780
Total Pages : 358 pages
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Download or read book People, Places, and Practices in the Arctic written by Cunera Buijs and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection follows anthropological perspectives on peoples (Canadian Inuit, Norwegian Sámi, Yupiit from Alaska, and Inuit from Greenland), places, and practices in the Circumpolar North from colonial times to our post-modern era. This volume brings together fresh perspectives on theoretical concepts, colonial/imperial descriptions, collaborative work of non-Indigenous and Indigenous researchers, as well as articles written by representatives of Indigenous cultures from an inside perspective. The scope of the book ranges from contributions based on unpublished primary sources, missionary journals, and fairly unknown early Indigenous sources and publications, to those based on more recent Indigenous testimonies and anthropological fieldwork, museum exhibitions, and (self)representations in the fields of fashion, marketing, and the arts. The aim of this volume is to explore the making of representations for and/or by Circumpolar North peoples. The authors follow what representations have been created in the past and in some cases continue to be created in the present, and the Indigenous employment of representations that has continuity with the past and also goes beyond "traditional" utilization. By studying these representations, we gain a better understanding of the dynamics of a society and its interaction with other cultures, notably in the context of the dominant culture’s efforts to assimilate Indigenous people and erase their story. People’s ideas about themselves and of "the Other" are never static, not even if they share the same cultural background. This is even more the case in the contact zone of the intercultural arena. Images of "the Other" vary according to time and place, and perceptions of "others" are continuously readjusted from both sides in intercultural encounters. This volume has been prepared by the Research Group Circumpolar Cultures (RGCC) which is based in the Netherlands. Its members conduct research on social and cultural change focusing on topics that are of interest to the Indigenous peoples of the Arctic. The RGCC builds on a long tradition in Arctic studies in the Netherlands (Nico Tinbergen, Geert van den Steenhoven, Gerti Nooter, and Jarich Oosten) and can rely on rich Arctic collections of artefacts and photographs in anthropological museums and extensive library collections. The expertise of the RGCC in Arctic studies is internationally acknowledged by academics as well as circumpolar peoples.