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Culture summary: Alutiiq
HRAF • New Haven, Conn. • Published In 2005 • Pages:
By: O'Leary, Timothy J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a culture summary of the Alutiiq, and Eskimo group on the south coast of Alaska. Information is presented on major aspects of Alutiiq culture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Alutiiq
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1774-2000
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- south coast of Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Timothy J. O'Leary
- This Culture summary is a slightly edited version of the article 'Pacific Eskimo' in the Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. 1, North America, edited by Timothy O'Leary and David Levinson. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall and Co., 1991.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pacific Gulf Yupik Eskimos