North : finding place in Alaska / edited by Julie Decker.

Anchorage, Alaska : Anchorage Museum ; Seattle and London : University of Washington, 2017.

300 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Alaska is part of an international circumpolar North, which makes the United States an Arctic nation. Alaska is a place of Indigenous ingenuity and adaptation, a place where environmental extremes challenge the ways of living. In its more recent history, Alaska has been a place of resources and influx--a land known best for what it provides. This frontier persona, with its sourdoughs and prospectors, has not been easily shed, but Alaska today is pivotal because it represents America's North and a complex and changing Arctic. North: Finding Place in Alaska explores the state's various facets through exhibitions and artifacts at the Anchorage Museum and the words of a diverse selection of writers, curators, historians, anthropologists, and artists. From romantic landscapes by Rockwell Kent and Thomas Hill, to the art and spirituality of Alaska's Native peoples represented by a bentwood feast dish and a uniquely carved hook for catching halibut, this collection examines connections throughout the circumpolar North. No longer as remote as once thought, Alaska serves as a narrative for our future.

9780295741840 (pbk. ; ak. paper)
0295741848 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center Exhibitions.
Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center.
Alaska.
Alaska History.
Alaska Exhibitions.
Alaska Histoire.
Alaska Expositions.

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Decker, Julie, editor.

Location: Library main 316726
Call No.: 316726
Copy: 1
Status: Available