Alaska, Inuit -- Alaska -- Social life and customs, Inuit -- Social life and customs, Inuit -- Kinship, Inuit -- Economic Conditions, Inuit, Inuit -- Folklore, Alaska -- Languages, Human ecology, Inuit -- Religion, Spirituality -- Indigenous 

viii, 490 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 24 cm. 

Contents:
The land and the people --
The land --
North Alaskan Eskimo settlements --
Human relation to the biota --
Flora --
Fauna --
Language --
Houses and settlements --
Houses of the nuuamiut --
Houses of the tareumuit --
Family and kinship --
The nuclear family --
The extended family --
Kinship terminology --
Marriage --
Divorce --
Wife lending and wife exchange --
Adoption --
Abandonment --
Customary law --
Economy and society --
Human ecology of the Alaskan Arctic slope --
Property, wealth, and status --
Ownership --
Wealth --
Competition and cooperation --
Voluntary associations --
Partnerships --
Joking partnerships --
Women's partnerships --
The karigi --
Trade --
Open trade --
Structured trade --
The Messenger Feast (kimn̳ic) --
The individual and the life cycle --
The supernatural --
Shamanism --
The cults --
Culture change --
Folklore --
Appendices. Tobacco ; Dogs ; Pottery ; Time reckoning, enumeration.