Circumpolar Lives and Livelihood

“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