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Crowell, Aron

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Crowell, Aron

National Museum of Natural History staff

Arctic archaeology and anthropology, museum anthropology.

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Selected Publications

  • Article

  • Audio-Visual Document

  • Book

  • Chapter

    • Crowell, Aron L. 2022. "Indigenous Peoples, Museums, and Anthropology." In Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 1, Introduction. Krupnik, Igor, editor. 119–135. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Scholarly Press. 2022
    • Crowell, Aron L. 2022. "What Really Happened: A Migration Narrative from Southeast Alaska Compared to Archaeological and Geological Data." In Memory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North. Pratt, Ken and Heyes, Scott, editors. 2–35. Edmonton, Alberta: Athabasca University Press. 2022
    • Crowell, Aron L. 2020. "The 1960s - 1970s Harbor Seal Crash in Alaska: A Historical and Ecological Perspective." In Arctic Crashes: People and Animals in the Changing North. Krupnik, Igor and Crowell, Aron L., editors. 317–335. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2020
    • Crowell, Aron L. 2018. "Inuit-Dene Cultural Ecology in Cook Inlet, Alaska since 1000 B.C." In Imagining Anchorage: The Making of America’s Northernmost Metropolis. James Barnett and Ian Hartman, editors. 2–19. Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska Press. 2018
    • Crowell, Aron L. 2018. "Sugpiaq (Alutiiq) History and Archaeology on the Kenai Peninsula's Outer Coast." In 150 Years: Proceedings of the 2017 Kenai Peninsula History Conference. Loshbaugh, Shana F., editor. 223–230. Seattle, Washington: Skookum Creek. 2018
    • Crowell, Aron L. 2016. "Museums and Alaska Native Artists." In Alaska Passé/Present. Céline Ramios, editor. 65–72. Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France: Château Museé. 2016
    • Crowell, Aron L. 2015. "Sharing Knowledge thorugh the Looking Both Ways Exhibition." In Kal'unek--From Karluk, Kodiak Alutiiq History and the Archaeology of Karluk One. Steffian, Amy F., Leist, Marnie A., and Haakanson, Sven D., editors. 301–303. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. 2015
    • Crowell, Aron L. 2015. "The Glacier's Eternal Gift: Sealing, Science, and Indigenous Knowledge at Yakutat Bay, Alaska." In Keeping Our Traditions Alive: Compendium of Best Practices in Promoting the Traditional Ways of Life of Arctic Indigenous Peoples. 48–49. Ottawa: The Arctic Council Secretariat. 2015
    • Crowell, Aron L. and Kay, Sharon. 2014. "Aleut Basketry at the Kunstkamera: Linking Traditional and Contemporary Arts." In Catalog of the Aleut Collections of the Kunstkamera, St. Petersburg. Korsun, Sergei, editor. 39–46. St. Petersburg, Russia: Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences. 2014
    • Crowell, Aron L. 2014. "Cook and Russian Colonialism in Southern Alaska." In Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage. Barnett, James K. and Nicandri, David, editors. 149–169. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2014
    • Crowell, Aron L. 2011. "Ethnicity and Periphery: The Archaeology of Identity in Russian America." In The Archaeology of Capitalism in Colonial Context. Croucher, Sarah K. and Weiss, Lindsay, editors. 85–104. New York: Springer. 2011
    • Crowell, Aron L. 2010. "Introduction." In Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska. Crowell, Aron L., Worl, Rosita, Ongtooguk, Paul, and Biddison, Dawn D. , editors. 12–27. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books. 2010
    • Fitzhugh, William W. and Crowell, Aron L. 2009. "Ancestors and Ivories: Art of the Ancient Bering Sea." In Gifts for the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories From Bering Sea. Hollowell, Julie and Crowell, Aron L., editors. 18–41. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University. 2009
    • Crowell, Aron L. 2009. "Archaeology of a Borderland: Prince William Sound and Cook Inlet, Southern Alaska Coast." In Archaeology in America (Vol. 4). McManamon, Francis P., Cordell, Linda S., Lightfoot, Kent G., and Milner, George R., editors. 258–260. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 2009
    • Crowell, Aron L. 2009. "Russian Colonization of Alaska and the Northwest Coast." In Archaeology in America (Vol. 4). McManamon, Francis P., Cordell, Linda S., Lightfoot, Kent G., and Milner, George R., editors. 282–286. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 2009
    • Crowell, Aron L. 2009. "Sea Mammals in Art, Ceremony, and Belief: Knowledge Shared by Yupik and Iñupiaq Elders." In Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait. Fitzhugh, William W., Hollowell, Julie, and Crowell, Aron L., editors. 206–225. New Haven, CT: Princeton University Art Museum. 2009
    • Crowell, Aron L. 2009. "The Art of Iñupiaq Whaling: Elders' Interpretations of International Polar Year Ethnological Collections." In Smithsonian at the Poles: Contributions to International Polar Year Science. Krupnik, Igor, Lang, Michael A., and Miller, Scott E., editors. 99–114. In IPY. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.097884601X.9. 2009
    • Crowell, Aron L. 2008. "The St. Lawrence Island Famine and Epidemic, 1878-80: A Yupik Narrative in Cultural and Historical Context." In Living with Stories: Telling, Re-telling, and Remembering. Schneider, William, editor. 36–67. Logan: Utah State University Press. 2008

  • Conference Paper

    • Crowell, Aron L., Krupnik, Igor, Fitzhugh, William W., Engelstad, Bernadette, Dean, Bernadette, Harper, Kenneth, MacKenzie, Scott, Michelsen, Knud, Kleist, Mari, Griebel, Brendan, Sonne, Birgitte, Pratt, Kenneth, Shokarev, Sergei, Schwalbe, Daria, Appelt, Martin, Nielsen, Bent, Norbert, Eileen, and Bronshtein, Michael. 2021. "From Greenland to the Pacific: Centennial of the Fifth Thule Expedition, 1921-1924." in Alaska Journal of Anthropology. 19 (1-2), iii–269. 46th Annual meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association (Nome, Alaska) 2019-02-28. Alaska Anthropological Association. 2021

  • Review

    • Crowell, Aron L. 2012. [Book review] "Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast: Colonial Encounters on the Fraser Valley." American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 36, (4), 175–177. 2012

Editor Of

  • Book

    • Krupnik, Igor and Crowell, Aron, editors. 2020. Arctic Crashes: People and Animals in the Changing North. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2020
    • Shutt, Lauren, Biddison, Dawn, and Crowell, Aron L. 2014. Listen and Learn: Iñupiaq Language and Culture Video Lessons, Crowell, Aron L. and Biddison, Dawn, editors. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. 2014
    • Shutt, Lauren, Biddison, Dawn, and Crowell, Aron L. 2014. Listen and Learn: St. Lawrence Island Yupik Language and Culture Video Lessons, Crowell, Aron L. and Biddison, Dawn, editors. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. 2014
    • Crowell, Aron L., Worl, Rosita, Ongtooguk, Paul C., and Biddison, Dawn D. , editors. 2010. Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books. 2010
    • Crowell, Aron L., Worl, Rosita, Ongtooguk, Paul, and Biddison, Dawn D. , editors. 2010. Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books. 2010
    • Hollowell, Julie and Crowell, Aron L., editors. 2009. Gifts From the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories From Bering Strait. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University. 2009

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