CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. MANY FACES: AN INTRODUCTION TO GENDER RESEARCH IN INDIGENOUS NORTHERN NORTH AMERICA -- I. CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH -- 2. KIPIJUITUQ IN NETSILIK SOCIETY -- 3. GENDER EQUALITY IN A CONTEMPORARY INDIAN COMMUNITY -- 4. CELEBRATION OF A LIFE -- II. HISTORICAL AND ETHNOARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACHES -- 5. CHANGING RESIDENCE PATTERNS AND INTRADOMESTIC ROLE CHANGES -- 6. RE-PEOPLING THE HOUSE -- 7. FISH TALES -- III. MATERIAL AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS -- 8. CHILD AND INFANT BURIALS IN THE ARCTIC -- 9. PUZZLING OUT GENDER-SPECIFIC "SIDES" TO A PREHISTORIC HOUSE IN BARROW,ALASKA -- 10. BROKEN EYES AND SIMPLE GROOVES -- 11. GENDER,HOUSEHOLDS,AND THE MATERIAL CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIAL DIFFERENCE -- IV. SYNTHESIS AND PROJECTIONS FOR INDIGENOUS NORTHERN GENDER RESEARCH -- 12. GENDER DYNAMICS IN NATIVE NORTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.