The International Polar Institute publishes academic works focusing on the Inuit people and Greenland, as well as poems and folklore from the polar regions. These books capture ways of living that aren’t typically well known to others in the world, and seeks to promote the bountiful history of people living in the arctic’s northern hemisphere.
Karmageitin and Gentukamarið are interconnected poems and a play exploring female identity and memory through intertwined narratives.Karmageitin (Karma Goat) and Gentukamarið (“A Girl’s Room")...
Karmageitin and Gentukamarið explore female identity through interconnected poems and a play with non-linear narratives.Karmageitin (Karma Goat) and Gentukamarið (“A Girl’s Room") are a literary...
Collected Essays on Gwich'in History, Language and Folk Culture
by Craig Mishler
With Kenneth Drizhuu Frank
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9798988473220
Pub Date: 2024-02-28
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: International Polar Institute
432 Pages
“Mishler’s decades of commitment, his long affiliation with the Gwich’in communities and research collaborations with [Kenneth] Frank and other Gwich’in knowledge keepers is evident throughout...
In the 1930s the famous Smithsonian archaeologist Henry B. Collins discovered 2000 year old Eskimo cultures by excavating ancient sites in the Bering Sea region. Since then, archaeologists have pieced together a detailed history of how Eskimos spread east along the arctic coasts of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland to become the region’s Inuit peoples.
Sas Carey is a healer, humanist, filmmaker and child of the '50s. She learns to overcomes cultural expectations, leads others to achieve the same, and integrates herself anew.
Bayarsaikhan’s study provides the path toward the broader anthropological meaning of deer stone stones and their art and iconography, not as ornaments from a vanished people but as highly visible historical and cultural monuments that enrich understandings of Mongolia in the past, present, and future.
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The International Polar Institute publishes academic works focusing on the Inuit people and Greenland, as well as poems and folklore from the polar regions. These books capture ways of living that aren’t typically well known to others in the world, and seeks to promote the bountiful history of people living in the arctic’s northern hemisphere. 
