SELECTED THESES ON THE CIRCUMPOLAR ARCTIC

In this thesis an attempt is made to present a Marxist analysis of economic and sociocultural change in the District of Keewatin, Northwest Territories. Three settlements are focused on: Eskimo Point, Baker Lake, and Rankin Inlet. Following a brief overview of the history of white-Eskimo contact, a tentative analysis of the nature of aboriginal Caribou Eskimo social organisation is outlined. In the last chapter, some of the alternative approaches to the study of economic and sociocultural change are considered and there follows a Marxist analysis of socioeconomic conditions in the present-day Canadian Arctic.