Main entry:

Cruikshank, Julie.

Title & Author:

Do glaciers listen? : local knowledge, colonial encounters, and social imagination / Julie Cruikshank.

Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2005.

Description:

xii, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Brenda and David McLean Canadian studies series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-302) and index.
Introduction : the stubborn particulars of voice -- Memories of the Little Ice Age -- Constructing life stories : glaciers as social spaces -- Listening for different stories -- Two centuries of stories from Lituya Bay : nature, culture, and La Pérouse -- Bringing icy regions home : John Muir in Alaska -- Edward James Glave, the Alsek, and the Congo -- Mapping boundaries : from stories to borders -- Melting glaciers and emerging histories.

Summary:

"Do Glaciers Listen? explores the conflicting depictions of glaciers to show how natural and cultural histories are objectively entangled in the Mount Saint Elias ranges. This rugged area, where Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory now meet, underwent significant geophysical change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which coincided with dramatic social upheaval resulting from European exploration and increased travel and trade among Aboriginal peoples." "Focusing on contrasting views during the late stages of the Little Ice Age (1550-1900), Cruikshank demonstrates how local knowledge is produced, rather than discovered, through colonial encounters, and how it often conjoins social and biophysical processes. She then traces how the divergent views weave through contemporary debates about cultural meanings as well as current discussions about protected areas, parks, and the new World Heritage site. Readers interested in anthropology and Native and northern studies will find this a rich addition to circumpolar literature."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0295985135 (alk. paper)
9780295985138 (alk. paper)
0295985143 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780295985145 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780774811873 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0774811870 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0774811862
9780774811866

Subject:

Tlingit Indians Saint Elias Mountains Folklore.
Athapascan Indians Saint Elias Mountains Folklore.
Glaciers Saint Elias Mountains Folklore.
Ice fields Saint Elias Mountains Folklore.
Human ecology Saint Elias Mountains.
Oral tradition Saint Elias Mountains.
Glaciers Social aspects Saint Elias Mountains.
Climatic changes Saint Elias Mountains.
Glaciers Aspect social Saint-Elias, Monts.
Tlingit Saint-Elias, Monts Folklore.
Athapascan Saint-Elias, Monts Folklore.
Glaciers Saint-Elias, Monts Folklore.
Écologie humaine Saint-Elias, Monts.
Tradition orale Saint-Elias, Monts.
Climat Changements Saint-Elias, Monts.
Glaciers dans la littérature.
Champs de glace Saint-Elias, Monts Folklore.
Climatic changes
Athapascan Indians
Discoveries in geography
Ecology
Glaciers
Human ecology
Ice fields
Oral tradition
Tlingit Indians
Gletscher
Klimaänderung
Naturverständnis
Athapasken
Tlingit
Tlingit (volk)
Mondelinge overlevering.
Gletsjers.
Mündliche Tradition Mount Saint Elias.
Gletscher Nordamerika Geschichte Neuzeit.
Gletscher Lokales Wissen Mündliche Überlieferung Indianer Mount Saint Elias.
Saint Elias Mountains Discovery and exploration.
Saint Elias Mountains Folklore.
Saint Elias Mountains Environmental conditions.
Saint-Elias, Monts Découverte et exploration.
Saint-Elias, Monts Folklore.
Saint-Elias, Monts Conditions environnementales.
North America Saint Elias Mountains
Saint Elias Mountains
Alaska.
Yukon Territory.
Mount Saint Elias.
Mount Saint Elias Gletscher Lokales Wissen Mündliche Überlieferung Indianer.
Indianer Mount Saint Elias Gletscher Lokales Wissen Mündliche Überlieferung.

Form/genre:

Folklore

Added entries:

Brenda and David McLean Canadian studies series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main
Copy: 1
Status: On Order