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BOB — University of Nebraska Press / Page 325 / / 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] [325], (1) Lines: 0 to 17 ——— 0.0pt PgVar ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX [325], (1) Notes on Contributors Hetty Jo Brumbach is associate curator of anthropology, Department of Anthropology , University at Albany, and research associate at the New York State Museum. She received a doctorate in anthropology from the State University of New York. Her research and publications focus on archaeology and ethnoarchaeology . She has undertaken archaeological field research at sites in the Hudson and Susquehanna River drainages in New York State and other areas of the Northeast,concentrating on ecology,economy,and ceramic technology. She also holds strong interests in the archaeology of women and the roles of women in subsistence systems. Recent publications in the journal American Antiquity include the co-authored “Phytolith Evidence for Early Maize (Zea mays) in the Northern Finger Lakes Region of New York” and “The Death of Owasco.” Elena Glavatskaya is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Urals State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia, and earned a doctorate in history from the same institution for a dissertation on Russian policies toward indigenous peoples in Northwest Siberia in the 17th century. Recently she was a visiting professor at Rosemont, Cabrini and Beaver College (Arcadia University), and she also has a position at the University of Aberdeen. Her primary research interests are religious traditions and ethno–religious change among indigenous societies of the Urals and Siberia among whom she has conducted considerable ethnographic as well as archival work. She has collaborated with other scholars in research on these themes and recently wrote “Religious and Ethnic Revitalization among the Siberian Indigenous People: The Khanty Case.” She is also the author of the forthcoming book Religious Traditions of the Khanty in the 17th–20th Centuries. Robert Jarvenpa is a professor of anthropology and former chair of the Department of Anthropology, University at Albany, State University of New York, and holds a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Minnesota. He was a Fulbright professor at the University of Helsinki and a faculty member at the University of Alaska. His research and publications focus on ecology BOB — University of Nebraska Press / Page 326 / / 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 [Last Page] [326], (2) Lines: 17 to 23 ——— 165.58002pt PgVar ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX [326], (2) and culture,political ecology,economic and social change,interethnic relations, socio–spatial organization, decision making, gender, and ethnoarchaeology. He has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in indigenous Circumpolar communities in several northern countries as well as Costa Rica and the eastern united States. He is author of the book Northern Passage: Ethnography and Apprenticeship Among the Subarctic Dene (Waveland Press, 1998), among other recent publications. Carol Zane Jolles is a research associate professor in the Anthropology Department , University of Washington, Seattle, where she received her doctorate. Her current research focuses on sociocultural and economic change associated with globalization processes inAlaska Native Iñupiat communities in the northern Bering Strait region. These communities include Ingaliq on Little Diomede Island and Wales on the Seward Peninsula coast. She also has a long-term interest in the Yupik communities on St. Lawrence Island. She is author of the book Faith, Food and Family in an Eskimo Whaling Village (University of Washington Press, 2002), among other recent publications. Jukka Pennanen is a professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Oulu, Finland, and a docent of cultural anthropology at the University of Helsinki, where he received his doctorate. He was a visiting professor at McGill University and a visiting scholar at University at Albany,State University of New York. His main scholarly interests include cultural ecology, structuralism, fisheries and reindeer breeding, and Circumpolar societies, particularly the Sámi, among whom he has conducted extensive ethnographic research. Among other recent publications, he is the author and co-editor of the volume Siiddastallan: From Lapp Communities to Modern Sámi Life (Gummerus Kirjapaino Oy,2003). 326 contributors ...

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