Stephen Langdon

Department of Anthropology

Professor & Department Chair

afsjl@uaa.alaska.edu

Stephen Langdon began teaching at UAA in 1976. Through his career he has conducted a wide variety of research projects throughout Alaska on both basic and applied topics. His primary focus has been on southeast Alaska where he has worked on topics related to precontact, historic and contemporary fisheries of the Tlingit and Haida people. He has also conducted substantial research on subsistence practices of Alaska Natives, fisheries policies and their impacts on Alaska Natives, and on a variety of topics on ethnohistoric and contemporary social and cultural dimensions of Alaska Native life.

The Native People of Alaska, 2002

This book explains how Alaska's many different Native people have survived for more than 500 generations in one of the world's most challenging environments, long before the arrival of European technology.

Topics include traditional housing, dress, food, social systems, ceremonies, beliefs, tools and more. Supplemented with seven maps, 26 illustrations, and 55 historic photos. 6 x 9 inches; 128 pages.