Twenty-three heritage management specialists, heritage administrators and scholars, cultural anthropologists, and indigenous researchers from the U.S., Canada, Russia, Norway, Iceland, and Australia contribute 20 essays in a book project on ethnographic landscape preservation in the North, as part of a collaborative effort by the U.S. Dept. of Interior's National Park Service and the Smithsonian Institution's Arctic Studies Center. Coverage includes the established, official approaches and heritage management systems of individual polar countries; local examples of specific research, documentation, and management of both indigenous and non-aboriginal ethnographic landscapes; regional approaches to documentation and protection; and, for comparison purposes, heritage landscapes preservation in another part of the world, Australia. Distributed in the U.S. by the University of Alaska Press. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less