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Title: The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741-1867
Condition: New
ISBN-10: 0803220715
EAN: 9780803220713
ISBN: 9780803220713
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 01/12/2008
Description: The Tlingits, the largest Indian group in Alaska, have lived in Alaska's coastal southwestern region for centuries and first met non-Natives in 1741 during an encounter with the crew of the Russian explorer Alexei Chirikov. The volatile and complex connections between the Tlingits and their Russian neighbors, as well as British and American voyagers and traders, are the subject of this classic work, first published in Russian and now revised and updated for this English-language edition. Andrei Val’terovich Grinev bases his account on hundreds of documents from archives in Russia and the United States; he also relies on official reports, the notes of travelers, the investigations of historians and ethnographers, museum collections, atlases, illustrations, and photographs. Grinev outlines a picture of traditional Tlingit society before contact with Europeans and then analyzes interactions between the Tlingit people and newcomers. He examines the changes that took place in the Tlingits' traditional material and spiritual culture, as well as military affairs, during the Russian-American period. He also considers the dynamics of the Tlingits' population, the increase in interethnic marriage, their relationships with European immigrants, and their ethnology.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 601g
Author: Andrei Val’terovich Grinëv
Translator: Richard L. Bland, Katerina G. Solovjova
Contributor: Richard L. Bland (Translated by), Katerina G. Solovjova (Translated by)
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences, History
Release Year: 2008

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