The product of an international conference held in Sapporo, Japan in 1991, this volume reassesses the significance of northern religion and ecology by comparing the indigenous cultures of northern Eurasia and northern North America. It also contributes theoretically to the study of the relationships between religion and ecology in the North. The subjects range geographically from the Indians and Inuit of northern Canada and Alaska to the indigenous peoples of Siberia and the Ainu of northern Japan, and thematically from shamanism and cosmology to linguistics and indigenous uses of technology. Distributed by Columbia U. Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.