Close world-system encounters on the western/central Canadian Arctic periphery: long-term historic Copper Inuit-European and Eurocanadian intersocietal interaction

• Main Author: Johnson, Donald
• Other Authors: Oakes, Jillian (Environment and Geography), Riewe, Roderick (Biological Sciences) Koolage, William (Anthropology)
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Copper Inuit; Arctic; Royal Navy; World-System; Ulukhaktok; Archaeology; H.M.S. Enterprise; H.M.S. Investigator; Anthropology; Exploration; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4143

This study examines long-term direct and indirect Historic Copper Inuit-European and European intersocietal interaction in the western/central Canadian Arctic periphery. Utilizing theoretical perspectives deriving from World-System Theory and moderate relativist orientations, and, embracing ethnogra...