Kenneth L Pratt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3607574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth L Pratt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth L |
| FAMILY NAME | Pratt |
| SIGNATURE | PRATT K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | ANCSA Office, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Alaska Region, 3601 C Street, Suite 1100, Anchorage, AK 99503-5947, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
"They Never Ask the People": Native Views About the Nunivak Wilderness
This chapter focuses on the Nunivak Wilderness in southwestern Alaska, and examines the legal definition of wilderness and the wilderness evaluation process relative to indigenous cultural use and occupancy of proposed wilderness lands. Nunivak Island is located in the central Bering Sea region of southwestern Alaska. Volcanic in origin, it is roughly ninety-seven kilometers wide by sixty-five kilometers long (north to south) and is separated fro…
Demographic adversities and Indigenous resilience in Western Alaska
Indigenous peoples in the Arctic have historically experienced a broad range of demographic and ecological adversities, the impacts of which sometimes included high mortalities and population dislocations. The anthropological literature has tended to emphasise the dramatic, negative impacts of such events on human groups-to an extent that implies the fabric of social life was typically devastated. This study takes a markedly different perspective…
Ernest S. (Tiger) Burch, Jr. (1938–2010)
Rifles, Blankets, and Beads: Identity, History, and the Northern Athapaskan Potlatch
Legendary Birds in the Physical Landscape of the Yup'ik Eskimos
This account describes a unique research problem experienced by the author in the summer of 1985 conducting fieldwork on a federal, cultural resource management project in southwestern Alaska. The discussion the complex roleofthe anthropologist in the implementation of one specific component of Alaska Native Land Claims legislation, and testifies to the continued vitality of the oral tradition in contemporary Central Yup'ik Eskimo life
Bashful No Longer: An Alaskan Eskimo Ethnohistory, 1778-1988
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Bashful No Longer: An Alaskan Eskimo Ethnohistory, 1778-1988
Legendary Birds in the Physical Landscape of the Yup'ik Eskimos
This account describes a unique research problem experienced by the author in the summer of 1985 conducting fieldwork on a federal, cultural resource management project in southwestern Alaska. The discussion the complex roleofthe anthropologist in the implementation of one specific component of Alaska Native Land Claims legislation, and testifies to the continued vitality of the oral tradition in contemporary Central Yup'ik Eskimo life
Rifles, Blankets, and Beads: Identity, History, and the Northern Athapaskan Potlatch
Ernest S. (Tiger) Burch, Jr. (1938–2010)
Demographic adversities and Indigenous resilience in Western Alaska
Indigenous peoples in the Arctic have historically experienced a broad range of demographic and ecological adversities, the impacts of which sometimes included high mortalities and population dislocations. The anthropological literature has tended to emphasise the dramatic, negative impacts of such events on human groups-to an extent that implies the fabric of social life was typically devastated. This study takes a markedly different perspective…
"They Never Ask the People": Native Views About the Nunivak Wilderness
This chapter focuses on the Nunivak Wilderness in southwestern Alaska, and examines the legal definition of wilderness and the wilderness evaluation process relative to indigenous cultural use and occupancy of proposed wilderness lands. Nunivak Island is located in the central Bering Sea region of southwestern Alaska. Volcanic in origin, it is roughly ninety-seven kilometers wide by sixty-five kilometers long (north to south) and is separated fro…
Archaeology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (4 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · History (2 works)