| Ernest
S. Burch, Jr.
Ernest S. Burch, Jr.
National Museum of Natural History, Arctic Studies Center
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Ernest Burch is
a historical ethnographer specializing in the study of northern
peoples, especially those of northwestern Alaska and the central
Canadian subarctic. He received his B.A. in sociology from Princeton
University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the
University of Chicago. Burch has published extensively on the
Iñupiat, the Caribou Inuit, kinship, and hunter-gatherer
social organization. His recent books include The Iñupiaq
Eskimo nations of Northwest Alaska (University of Alaska
Press, 1998), Alliance and conflict: The world system of
the Iñupiaq Eskimos (University of Nebraska Press,
2005), and Social Life in Northwest Alaska: The structure
of Iñupiaq Eskimo nations (University of Alaska
Press, 2006). Since 1979 Burch has been a research associate
of the Smithsonian Institution’s Arctic Studies Center. |
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