Focusing on these contrasting views of glaciers between Aboriginal peoples and European visitors in northern Canada and Alaska, Julie Cruikshank demonstrates how local knowledge is produced, rather than discovered, through colonial encounters, and how it often conjoins social and biophysical processes.
Focusing on these contrasting views of glaciers between Aboriginal peoples and European visitors in northern Canada and Alaska, Julie Cruikshank demonstrates how local knowledge is produced, rather than discovered, through colonial encounters, and how it often conjoins social and biophysical processes.
Julie Cruikshank is professor emerita in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Life Lived Like a Story (winner of the 1992 MacDonald Prize); Reading Voices; and The Social Life of Stories. In 2012 she was awarded a Clio Lifetime Achievement Award for The North by the Canadian Historical Association
Inhaltsangabe
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Stubborn Particularities of Voice Part 1: Matters of Locality 1 Memories of the Little Ice Age 2 Constructing Life Stories: Glaciers as Social Spaces 3 Listening for Different Stories Part 2: Practices of Exploration 4 Two Centuries of Stories from Lituya Bay: Nature, Culture, and La Pérouse 5 Bringing Icy Regions Home: John Muir in Alaska 6 Edward James Glave, the Alsek, and the Congo Part 3: Scientific Research in Sentient Places 7 Mapping Boundaries: From Stories to Borders 8 Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories Notes Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Stubborn Particularities of Voice Part 1: Matters of Locality 1 Memories of the Little Ice Age 2 Constructing Life Stories: Glaciers as Social Spaces 3 Listening for Different Stories Part 2: Practices of Exploration 4 Two Centuries of Stories from Lituya Bay: Nature, Culture, and La Pérouse 5 Bringing Icy Regions Home: John Muir in Alaska 6 Edward James Glave, the Alsek, and the Congo Part 3: Scientific Research in Sentient Places 7 Mapping Boundaries: From Stories to Borders 8 Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories Notes Bibliography Index
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