Social Science Regional Studies
Human Ecology
Issues in the North (Volume I)
- Publisher
- The University of Alberta Press, Faculty of Home Economics
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1992
- Category
- Regional Studies, Research
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781772121834
- Publish Date
- Jan 1993
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919058873
- Publish Date
- Jan 1993
- List Price
- $15.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919058781
- Publish Date
- Jan 1992
- List Price
- $15.00
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Description
1991-92 lectures: Themes in this volume are Traditional Native Nutrition and Spirituality; Health, Housing and Social Problems; Inuit bird skin clothing construction, environmental and social impacts of development on the aboriginal peoples of the Soviet Far East. Papers by: Milton M.R. Freeman; Eleanor E. Wein, Jean H. Sabry, and Frederick T. Evers; David E. Young and Elizabeth Olsen; Jane Ash Poitras; Bryce Larke; Rosemarie Kuptana; Catherine M. Twinn and Dexter B. Dombro; Carol A. Morgaine; Hal Logson and Debbie Seto; Jill Oakes; and Rick Riewe.
About the authors
Rick Riewe's research interests include human interactions with climate change in the Hudson Bay Region; impacts of northern development upon circumpolar peoples; wildlife ecology; boreal ecology; northern wildlife management; northern native harvesting and utilization of wildlife; northern land claims; environmental impact assessment; and the ecology of prairie grasslandsl; wildlife products utilized by Circumpolar Aboriginal peoples; the roles of aboriginal women in the domestic economy; and the ethnology of Circumpolar Peoples. He received a Ph.D. in Zoology from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and the University of Manitoba.
Dr. Oakes is Professor in the Department of Environment and Geology at the University of Manitoba. She studies the relationships between people, belief systems, and the environment. She is also interested in the meaning and importance of traditional activities, and works to document the traditional knowledge of First Nations elders.
