Ainu gods and beliefs / Tatsujiro Kuzuno -- Some early circumpolar studies / Frederica de Laguna -- The animal cult of northern hunter-gatherers : patterns and their ecological implications / Hitoshi Watanabe -- Animals as the intersection of religion with ecology : an Ainu example / Takako Yamada -- Animal cults and ecology : Ainu and East Siberian examples / Alexander B. Spevakovsky -- Shamanism : a religion of nature? / Roberte N. Hamayon -- The annual cycle of the ancient Emishi / Taryo Obayashi -- The relation between symbol and ecology / Katsuyoshi Fukui -- The effect of contact on the religion of Inupiat Eskimos / Edith Turner -- Rationality and resource use among hunters / Ernest S. Burch Jr. -- Brother Moon, Sister Sun, and the direction of the world : from Arctic cosmography to Inuit cosmology / Bernard Saladin d'Anglure -- Religious syncretism as cultural dynamic / Lydia T. Black -- Why become Christian? Hypotheses on the Christianization of the Canadian Inuit / Nobuhiro Kishigami -- The Yupik world seen through linguistic demonstratives / Osahito Miyaoka -- Social linkage of ecology and religion in ecological anthropological studies / Makoto Kakeya -- Inverted sacrifice / Henry S. Sharp -- Tools in the mind : northern Athapaskan ecology, religion, and technology / Robin Ridington -- Dreaming of animals : the Waswanipi Cree shaking tent ceremony in relation to environment, hunting, and missionization / Harvey A. Feit -- Religion, ecology, and behavioral strategy : a comparison of Ainu and northern Athapaskan / Takashi Irimoto -- The mythological world of Jomon culture / Masaki Nishida -- Religion and environment among the Saami : an ecological study / Åke Hultkrantz -- Shamanism as the expression of Northern identity / Juha Pentikäinen -- Economic-cultural types and historical-ethnographic regions in the lower Amur Basin and Sakhalin Island / Shiro Sasaki -- Long-term survival and changing social organization among the Gidra Papuaus : comparison with peoples of the North / Ryutaro Ohtsuka -- Anthropology of the North / Takashi Irimoto