News
Volume 15 (1-2) 2017
Part I Special Section: Maritime Anthropology
Guest Editors: Jason Rogers and Evguenia Anichtchenko
The Magoun Clam Garden Near Sitka, Alaska: Niche Construction Theory Meets Traditional Ecological Knowledge, but What about the Risks of Shellfish Toxicity?
Madonna Moss and Hannah Wellman
Reconstructing the St. Lawrence Island Kayak: From Forgotten Watercraft to a Bering Sea Maritime Network
Evguenia Anichenko
Archaeological Remains of Precontact Watercraft on the Northwest Coast
Kathryn Bernick
Report of 2012-2015 Research Relating to the Russian-American Company Ship Neva and Potential Shipwreck Survivor Camp, Alaska
David McMahan
The “Beeswax Wreck”: A Manila Galleon Wreck on the North Oregon Coast
Scott Williams
The Lost Treasures of Ipiutak
Jacques Marc
Part II
Late Precontact Settlement on the northern Seward Peninsula Coast: Results from Recent Fieldwork
Shelby Anderson and Justin Junge
Haa Daat Akawshixit/”He Wrote about Us”: Contextualizing Anthropologist John R. Swanton’s Fieldwork and Writings on the Tlingit Indians, 1904-1909
Zachary Jones
Catching Gold Fever: A Social History of Typhoid Fever among the Klondike Gold Rushers, 1896-1904
Megan J. Highet
Thesis and Dissertation Abstracts
Compiled by Monty Rogers
Book Reviews
Marking the Land: Hunter-Gatherer Creation of Meaning in Their Environment
(Edited by William A. Lovis and Robert Whallon)
Reviewed by Aubrey Cannon
The Archaeology of Coffman Cove: 5500 Years of Settlement in the Heart of Southeast Alaska
(Madonna L. Moss, Justin M. Hays, Peter M. Bowers, and Douglas Reger)
Reviewed by Andrew Martindale
The Enigmatic World of Ancient Graffiti: Rock Art in Chukotka, the Chaunskaya Region, Russia
(Margarita Kiryak [Dikova])
Reviewed by Karisa Terry
Face the Sea: In Memory of Lyudmila Bogoslovskaya
(Edited by Igor I. Krupnik)
Reviewed by Olga Romanenko
Volume 16 (1) 2018
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
ANTHROPOLOGY ON THE ROCKS: PORTRAITS OF THE GWICH’IN
BY AMERICAN FIELD GEOLOGISTS, 1898–1927
Craig Mishler
ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE UPPERMOST TANANA: RESULTS OF A SURVEY OF THE
NABESNA AND CHISANA RIVERS, EAST-CENTRAL ALASKA
Joshua J. Lynch, Ted Goebel, Kelly E. Graf, and Jeffrey T. Rasic
THE ERODAWAY SITE: LITHIC TECHNOLOGICAL VARIABILITY AT A
LATE GLACIAL CAMP IN THE CENTRAL ALASKA RANGE
Charles E. Holmes, Josh Reuther, Jacob S. Adams, Peter Bowers, and Allison Little
INTRODUCTION TO “THEY ARE INVETERATE USERS OF TOBACCO”: DR. JAMES TAYLOR WHITE’S 1898 MANUSCRIPT ON TOBACCO USE AND PIPE CONSTRUCTION AMONG ALASKA NATIVES
Gary C. Stein
“THEY ARE INVETERATE USERS OF TOBACCO”
Edited and annotated by Gary C. Stein
REPORT
LATE HOLOCENE LAND-USE ALONG THE MIDDLE FORK OF THE FORTYMILE RIVER, ALASKA
Sam Coffman, Robin Mills, and Scott Shirar
BOOK REVIEWS
WALTER HARPER, ALASKA NATIVE SON (MARY F. EHRLANDER) 107
Reviewed by William Simeone
SHEM PETE’S ALASKA: THE TERRITORY OF THE UPPER COOK INLET DENA’INA
(REVISED SECOND EDITION) (JAMES KARI, JAMES A. FALL, AND SHEM PETE) 109
Reviewed by Scott Heyes
THESIS AND DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS
Monty Rogers
ALASKA JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY STYLE GUIDE
Volume 16 (2) 2018
ARTICLES
Sinew thread production and stitch properties in Arctic Alaskan clothing construction. . . . . . . .1
Diana R. Ewing and Christyann M. Darwent
Constructing rock cairns: modifying and signifying the alpine landscape of southeast Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Ralph J. Hartley, William J. Hunt, Jr. and Amanda Renner
One word, many worlds: the polyvocality of subsistence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Susanna Gartler
TRANSLATIONS
Introduction to uicimaalleq (walter kelly): Pilot Station, Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Kenneth L. Pratt
Two oral history narratives by uicimaalleq (Walter Kelly). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Translated by Monica Shelden; edited and annotated by Kenneth L. Pratt
Four short Russian translations related to the Eskimo region. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Translated by Richard L. Bland
ESSAY
Memoir of the Japanese sea otter hunting vessel kaisei-maru. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
Yoko Kugo
BOOK REVIEWS
Stories find you, places know: Yup’ik narratives of a sentient world (Cusack-mcveigh). . . . . . 101
Reviewed by Ellen Carrlee
Many stories to tell / qanemcit amllertut (Fienup-Riordan, ed. and Rearden, trans.). . . . . . 103
Reviewed by Wanni W. Anderson
The last house at Bridge River: the archaeology of an aboriginal household in British Columbia
(Prentiss, ed.). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 105
Reviewed by T. Max Friesen
Naut’staarpet / our plants: a Kodiak Alutiiq plantlore (Russell). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..107
Reviewed by Kevin Jernigan
Menadelook: an Inupiat teacher’s photographs of Alaska village life, 1907–1932 (Eileen Norbert, ed.) . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Reviewed by Richard Stern
2017-2018 Research notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Edited by Anne M. Jensen
Thesis and dissertation abstracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Monty Rogers