"Nancy Turner has studied Indigenous peoples' knowledge of plants and environments in northwestern North America for over forty years. In Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge, she integrates her research into a two-volume ethnobotanical tour-de-force. Drawing on information sha…
Volume 1: The History and Practice of Indigenous Plant Knowledge Volume 2: The Place and Meaning of Plants in Indigenous Cultures and Worldviews Nancy Turner has studied Indigenous peoples' knowledge of plants and environments in northwestern North America for over forty years. …
"Was Vilhjalmur Stefansson a prophet or a profiteer, a victim or a villain? Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic reveals the truth about this fascinating and complex Northern pioneer." "Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962) was Canada's greatest modern arctic explorer as well as a the…
"Was Vilhjalmur Stefansson a prophet or a profiteer, a victim or a villain? Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic reveals the truth about this fascinating and complex Northern pioneer." "Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962) was Canada's greatest modern arctic explorer as well as a the…
On Thin Ice explores the shifting relationship between the Inuit and the modern state in the North American Arctic, and it pays tribute to pioneering IR theorist Ken Waltz's elucidation of the 'Three Images, ' with the addition of a new 'Fourth Image' to describe a tribal level …
Examines Inuit history and culture and the experiences of new arrivals in the Arctic. In addition, the effect that climate change is having on the Arctic is explored
