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Edmund Searles, PhD Office Home Department of Sociology and Anthropology 33 North Front Street Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA 17837 Lewisburg, PA 17837 570-522-1060 570-577-1070 esearles@bucknell.edu Current Position Assistant Professor of Anthropology RESEARCH INTERESTS Social, historical and religious dimensions of human-environment relations of Native North Americans; self, society and cultural identity; memory, narrative, and historical consciousness; tradition, modernity, cultural identity, and ethnicity of Canadian Inuit. Quality of Life and social indicators; social cohesion in indigenous communities. AREA SPECIALIZATION Canada (Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Labrador), Alaska EDUCATION University of Washington Ph.D., Sociocultural Anthropology, 1998 Dissertation: From Town to Outpost Camp: Symbolism and Social Action in the Canadian Eastern Arctic. A study of Inuit ethnicity and symbolic action in Nunavut. M.A., Anthropology, 1993 Thesis: The Subsistence Uses of Vegetal Resources in Lake Clark National Park and Adjacent Villages. An analysis of the cultural dimensions of subsistence practices of Athapaskan, Yupiit and non-Natives in rural southwest Alaska. Bowdoin College B.A., Anthropology and Environmental Studies, 1989 Honor’s Thesis: An Ethnohistorical Account of the Crocker Land Expedition, North Greenland, 1914-1918. An ethnohistorical analysis of Polar Inuit-explorer relations in Northwest Greenland. PUBLICATIONS Articles and Book Chapters (peer-reviewed) Anthropology in an Era of Inuit Empowerment. Pp. 89-101. In Critical Inuit Studies in an Era of Globalization, Pam Stern and Lisa Stevenson, eds. University of Nebraska Press. 2006. “Inuit: Canada and Greenland.” Pp. 279-281 in the Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, Volume 1. Solomon H. Katz, ed. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 2003. “Noms, Récits, et Mémoire au Nunavut [The Embodiment of Cultural Memory and Meaning i