Circumpolar Lives and Livelihood: A Comparative Ethnoarchaeology of Gender and Subsistence

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BOB — University of Nebraska Press / Page xi / / Circumpolar Lives / Jarvenpa and Brumbach 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 [First Page] [-11], (1) Lines: 0 to 17 ——— 0.0pt PgVar ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX [-11], (1) Acknowledgments The seeds of this volume were planted in the early 1990s, when we began experimenting with ethnoarchaeological approaches to gender and subsistence in northern Canada. We are especially grateful for the patient guidance and insights of our Chipewyan friends and colleaguesAlbertAubichon,CecileAubichon , Margaret Aubichon, Albert Black, Mary Black, Rose Campbell, Mary Djonaire, Bernadette George, Christine George, the late John John, Mary Jane John, Christine Lariviere, Mathias Maurice, J. B. McIntyre, and the late Agnes Roy of Patuanak and Knee Lake, Saskatchewan. Their testimony and everyday lives revealed unexpected intricacies and flexibility in women’s and men’s work roles. They challenged many of our previous assumptions about the sexual division of labor and suggested new ways of thinking about gender and the archaeological landscape. Ultimately, these experiences were pivotal in developing the perspective and methods for carrying the research forward to the comparative, cross-cultural analysis presented in this book. This work would not have been possible without a dedicated international team of professional collaborators in Russia, Finland, and Alaska. We are indebted to Dr. Elena Glavatskaya, Dr. Jukka Pennanen, and Dr. Carol Zane Jolles for joining us in this (ad)venture. Their creativity and insight, their expertise and hospitality in the field,and their considerable efforts in interpreting the data and writing their respective chapters for this volume made a logistically complex project viable and rewarding. Graduate assistants Riitta-Marja Leinonen and Scott Williams provided invaluable help in Finland for which we are grateful , and Scott also skillfully prepared the final version of many of the maps in this volume. The bulk of our research was generously supported over several years by a National Science Foundation grant (No. opp-9805136). Dr. Fae Korsmo, former director of the Arctic Social Sciences Program, Office of Polar Programs at nsf, has our gratitude for her consistent encouragement and advice. We also received support from the Canadian Studies Faculty Research Program, Aca- BOB — University of Nebraska Press / Page xii / / Circumpolar Lives / Jarvenpa and Brumbach 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 [-12], (2) Lines: 17 to 29 ——— * 186.58002pt PgVar ——— Normal Page * PgEnds: PageBreak [-12], (2) demic Relations Office,Canadian Embassy,and from a Faculty ResearchAwards Program grant, University at Albany, suny, for conducting the initial stages of this project. In recent years we have enjoyed a lively interchange of ideas with scholars exploring similar terrain. We owe special thanks to Janet Spector for her pioneering work on gender and task differentiation. We are also grateful to Alice Kehoe, Sarah M. Nelson, the late Susan Kent, Barry Isaac, Cheryl Claassen, Rosemary A. Joyce, Lynne Goldstein, Nancy L. Wicker, Bettina Arnold, MarciaAnne Dobres, Robert Janes, Lisa Frink, Rita S. Shepard, Gregory A. Reinhardt, Rita Wright, and Cathy Costin. We are deeply grateful to Gary Dunham at the University of Nebraska Press for his kind encouragement and insightful suggestions for enhancing our book. We also appreciate the anonymous reviewers, much of whose thoughtful advice helped in revising our work. Renae Carlson at Nebraska and Mary M. Hill deserve special thanks for their fine handling of the production and copyediting processes. Our largest debt is to the people of the communities who collaborated in this project and kindly invited us into their homes. The Chipewyan of the English River First Nation, Canada, the Khanty of the Trom’Agan and Surgut region, Russia, the Sámi of Kultima, Finland, and the Iñupiaq of Little Diomede Island, Alaska, have our deepest respect and gratitude. We trust that readers of this book will share this respect as they learn of these peoples’ lives and livelihood. Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach xii acknowledgments BOB — University of Nebraska Press / Page xiii / / Circumpolar Lives / Jarvenpa and Brumbach 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22...