Circumpolar Lives and Livelihood

Robert Jarvenpa is a professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany. His books include Northern Passage: Ethnography and Apprenticeship among the Subarctic Dene. Hetty Jo Brumbach is an associate curator of anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany. She is the author of many reports and articles, which have appeared in such journals as Arctic Anthropology, Man in the Northeast, American Antiquity, and Human Ecology.

"This is a highly readable and useful study that adds to the understanding of the ways that social relations inhere and are embedded in tasks. The explication of the research methodology and the structured approach to the reporting add to the strength of the combined case studies. . . . Circumpolar Lives and Livelihood is a significant contribution to the growing literature about circumpolar peoples that has been made possible by the end of the Cold War."—Pamela Stern, Polar Record"The subject matter, organization, and editorial control exercised in pulling together this volume make it a 'must' for academics interested in circumpolar peoples. It is also a great classroom text for courses on the ethnography, ethnoarchaeology, or archaeology of foragers. Each case study is valuable in its own right, and the complementary chapters (one ethnographic, the other presenting the task differentiation analysis) work well as stand-alones. . . . The editors' Introduction and concluding chapters do more than simply tie the studies together—they draw out tantalizing and well-reasoned generalities while tempering each with the caveat that archaeologists desiring a gender attribution 'road map' should look elsewhere."—Arctic

• List of Tables; List of Maps; List of Figures; Preface; Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Gender, Subsistence and Ethnoarchaeology Robert Jarvenpa (University of Albany) and Hetty Jo Brumbach (University of Albany); 2 Chipewyan Society and Gender Relations Hetty Jo Brumbach and Robert Jarvenpa; 3 Chipewyan Hunters: A Task Differentiation Analysis Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach; 4 Khanty Society and Gender Relations Elena Glavatskaya (Urals State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia); 5 Khanty Hunter-Fisher-Herders: A Task Differentiation Analysis of Trom'Agan Women's and Men's Subsistence Activities Elena Glavatskaya; 6 Sami Society and Gender Relations Jukka Pennanen (University of Oulu, Finland); 7 Sami Reindeer Breeders: A Task Differentiation Analysis Jukka Pennanen; 8 Inupiaq Society and Gender Relations Carol Zane Jolles (University of Washington, Seattle); 9 Inupiaq Maritime Hunters: Subsistence Work in Diomede Carol Zane Jolles; 10 Conclusion: Toward a Comparative Ethnoarchaeology of Gender Hetty Jo Brumbach and Robert Jarvenpa