| Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact Volume 5 Contributor(s): Dick, Lyle (Author) |
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ISBN: 1552380505 ISBN-13: 9781552380505 Publisher: University of Calgary Press OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2001 Annotation: Historian Lyle Dick analyses relations between Native People and Europeans in the Ellesmere Island region of Canada's High Arctic during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This is a revealing work on both polar exploration and the sensitive issue of cultural contact. Muskox Land is a comprehensive study of European -- Inuit contact in the High Arctic, including the roles played by the natural environment, culture, circumstance, and historical change arising during the era of exploration. Highlighted are discussions of material exchanges and adaptations, coupled with the many stresses precipitated by natural forces, the dynamics of contact and the progression of events during this period. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Canada - General - History | Expeditions & Discoveries - History | Native American |
| Dewey: 971.95 |
| LCCN: 2002421373 |
| Series: Parks and Heritage |
| Physical Information: 1.58" H x 6.06" W x 8.98" (2.21 lbs) 631 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Arctic/Antarctic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Critical forces of culture and nature collide in this comprehensive history of Ellesmere Island in the age of contact. Surveying the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lyle Dick presents an impressive treatment of European-Inuit contact in the High Arctic (the area of what is now the Quttinirpaaq National Park) while considering the roles of the natural environment and cultures as factors in human history. As he charts the dynamic interplay between change and continuity in this forbidden land, Dick unravels the complexities of cultural exchange and human relationships to the Arctic landscape. Muskox Land provides a meticulously researched and richly illustrated treatment of Canada's High Arctic as it interweaves insights from historiography, Native studies, ecology, anthropology, and polar exploration. Winner of the Harold Adams Innis Prize for Best English Language Book in the Social Sciences, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dick, Lyle: - Lyle Dick is the West Coast Historian for Parks Canada and president of the Canadian Historical Association. He has published extensively in the fields of Arctic history, western Canadian history, and historiography. Lyle Dick has also received numerous awards for endeavours and accomplishments in his chosen fields. |