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Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. The Wakashan family: coast vs. inlet
3. Tsimshianic: riverine and coastal
4. Haida: an isolated “large island” system
5. Alaskan Na-Dene
6. Eskimo orientation revisited
7. Aleut: an archipelagoan system
8. Chukotian systems: nomadic vs. sedentary
9. Eskimo-Chukchi interaction at Bering Strait
10. Nomadic and riverine neighbours of the Chukotians
11. Nivkh: fishers and hunters of the lower Amur—and beyond
12. Of fire and water
13. Conclusions
Appendix 1: The languages of the survey
Appendix 2: Directional affixes and clitics in the languages of the Northwest Coast
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