Photo taken at Point Hope, Alaska, 1940, by Froelich Rainey,
first professor of anthropology at UAF

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The Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
is the only department in North America with general concentation on the social and cultural anthropology of the circumpolar North.

THEORETICAL SPECIALIZATIONS IN:

Narrative and discourse analysis

Art history of the northwest coast of North America

Native Alaskan, Eskimo and Inuit art of the historical and contemporary periods.

Inuit/Yup'ik ethnography

Social organization and ethnohistory of Siberia and Alaska

Anthropological study of children; history of ethnography and circumpolar exploration

Socio-legal studies; culture and politics

Folklore

Ritual and symbolism

Culture, history and identity, social transformation; historical and national/ethnic consciousness

National, international and transnational social movements

AREA SPECIALIZATIONS IN:

Alaska, Norh Pacific, Russian Far East (Kamchatka, Chukotka),

Siberia, Canada,

North Atlantic (Iceland, Greenland)

Faculty by research area