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Conversations with Tiger: Forty Years of Dialogue . . . and One Uncompleted Project
- Arctic Anthropology
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Volume 49, Number 2, 2012
- pp. 196-200
- 10.1353/arc.2012.0033
- Article
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Here I describe four decades of my collaboration with Ernest S. "Tiger" Burch, Jr., principally concerning the editing of three late 19th-century reports on the Iñupiat of northwestern Alaska, reports which were compiled at a time when Iñupiaq societies were undergoing severe stresses from foreign intrusions and influences. The correspondence sheds light on Burch's research methodology, precision of thought, honesty, and ethical standards.