Historical configurations of knowledge among the Iñupiat in Arctic Alaska

• Main Author: Van Drei, Joshua A
• Other Authors: Zanotti, Laura
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Purdue University 2014
• Subjects: American studies|Cultural anthropology|American history; Arctic; Yankee; north slope; Alaska
• Online Access: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI1565363

This thesis explores how the Iñupiat of the North Slope of Alaska have responded to cultural pressures, specifically those arising from the introduction of missions and schools, and characterized by an increase in permanent outsider settlement, and how they have internalized these pressures into the...