Essays on the Ethnography of the Aleuts

Download or read book Essays on the Ethnography of the Aleuts written by Roza Gavrilovna Li͡apunova and published by Rasmuson Library. This book was released on 1996 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work translated here is Ocherki po etnografii aleutov (konets XVIII-pervaia polovina XIX v.) (Leningrad: Nauka, 1975), one of Roza G. Liapunova's two monographs on the Aleuts of Alaska. Liapunova discusses the archaeology of Aleut origins, Aleut life as documented in early historical sources, and Aleut material culture based on historical sources and in museum collections. Essays remains a valuable synthesis of English- and Russian-language sources on these topics. It also showcases the wide-ranging interests and broad expertise of a Soviet scholar whose work deserves to be read by an English-speaking audience. The volume includes a brief biography and bibliography of selected works of the author and an index.