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Essay Preview: AnthReport this essayJust below the Arctic Circle in the boreal forest of interior Alaska; an amber afternoon in mid-November; the temperature -20˚; the air adrift with frost crystals, presaging the onset of deeper cold. Five men–Koyukon Indians–lean over the carcass of an exceptionally large black bear. For two days theyve traversed the Koyukuk.