1994. Circumpolar Religion and Ecology - An Anthropology of the North. (eds. Irimoto, T. and T. Yamada) Tokyo，University of Tokyo Press. 462 pp.
Contents
Preface ix
Part I Northern Studies: Past and Present
1. Ainu Gods and Beliefs / Tatsujiro Kuzuno 3
2. Some Early Circumpolar Studies / Frederica de Laguna 7
Part II Religion and Ecology in the North and among the Ainu
3. The Animal Cult of Northern Hunter-Gatherers: Patterns and Their Ecological Implications / Hitoshi Watanabe 47
4. Animals as the Intersection of Religion with Ecology: An Ainu Example / Takako Yamada 69
5. Animal Cults and Ecology: Ainu and East Siberian Examples / Alexander B. Spevakovsky 103
6. Shamanism: A Religion of Nature? / Roberte N. Hamayon 109
7. The Annual Cycle of the Ancient Emishi / Taryo Obayashi 125
8. The Relation between Symbol and Ecology / Katsuyoshi Fukui 137
Part III Religion and Ecology of Alaskan Eskimo and Canadian Inuit
9. The Effect of Contact on the Religion of Inupiat Eskimos / Edith Turner 143
10. Rationality and Resource Use among Hunters / Ernest S. Burch, Jr. 163
11. Brother Moon, Sister Sun, and the Direction of the World: From Arctic Cosmography to Inuit Cosmology / Bernard Saladin d’Anglure 187
12. Religions Syncretism as Cultural Dynamic / Lydia T. Black 213
13. Why Become Christian? Hypotheses on the Christianization of the Canadian Inuit / Nobuhiro Kishigami 221
14. The Yupik World Seen through Linguistic Demonstratives / Osahito Miyaoka 237
15. Social Linkage of Ecology and Religion in Ecological Anthropological Studies / Makoto Kakeya 247
Part IV Religion and Ecology of North American Indians
16. Inverted Sacrifice / Henry S. Sharp 253
17. Tools in the Mind: Northern Athapaskan Ecology, Religion, and Technology / Robin Ridington 273
18. Dreaming of Animals: The Waswanipi Cree Shaking Tent Ceremony in Relation to Environment, Hunting, and Missionization / Harvey A. Feit 289
19. Religion, Ecology and Behavioral Strategy: A Comparison of Ainu and Northern Athapaskan / Takashi Irimoto 317
20. The Mythological World of Jomon Culture / Masaki Nishida 341
Part V Religion and Ecology of Northern Eurasian / Siberian Peoples
21. Religion and Environment among the Saami: An Ecological Study / Åke Hultkrantz 347
22. Shamanism as the Expression of Northern Identity / Juha Pentikainen 375
23. Economic-Cultural Types and Historical-Ethnographic Regions in the Lower Amur Basin and Sakhalin Island / Shiro Sasaki 403
24. Long-term Survival and Changing Social Organization among the Gidra Papuaus: Comparison with Peoples of the North / Ryutaro Ohtsuka 415
