This remarkable biography recounts the life and work of Otto Geist, an archaeologist who spent his career studying Eskimo cultures. Given the name 'Aghvook,' meaning bowhead whale, by St. Lawrence Islanders, Geist did pioneering fieldwork with Alaska Native cultures, and his journal notes are reproduced in the book. Charles J. Keim also chronicles Geist's personal accomplishments, from his German childhood to his service in both world wars to his amassing of a vast collection of Alaskan artifacts and natural specimens that was donated to the University of Alaska. Wholly readable and compelling, "Aghvook, White Eskimo" offers a fascinating biographical study of one of America's pioneering scientists.
- ISBN10 1602230366
- ISBN13 9781602230361
- Publish Date 1 September 2008
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 17 November 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Alaska Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 327
- Language English