PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE ED - Krupnik, Igor ED - Pratt, Kenneth L. AU - John R. Bockstoce TI - Conversations with Tiger: Forty Years of Dialogue . . . and One Uncompleted Project AID - 10.1353/arc.2012.0033 DP - 2012 Sep 19 TA - Arctic Anthropology PG - 196--200 VI - 49 IP - 2 4099 - http://aa.uwpress.org/content/49/2/196.short 4100 - http://aa.uwpress.org/content/49/2/196.full SO - Arctic Anthropol2012 Sep 19; 49 AB - Here I describe four decades of my collaboration with Ernest S. “Tiger” Burch, Jr., principally concerning the editing of three late 19th-century reports on the Iñupiat of northwestern Alaska, reports which were compiled at a time when Iñupiaq societies were undergoing severe stresses from foreign intrusions and influences. The correspondence sheds light on Burch’s research methodology, precision of thought, honesty, and ethical standards.