Do Glaciers Listen? by Julie Cruikshank
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.
Perhaps the crucial word in the title is “Listen” The reader must listen carefully to the words as spoken by others in this beautifully crafted book. Do Glaciers Listen? is a fascinating read. Cruikshank’s discussion of how encounters shape and create perceptions of the world, and how layers of meaning are forced onto landscapes by peoples is thoroughly thought provoking. This book is highly recommended for scientitst, anthropologists, historians, and everyone with an interest in the social construction of landscapes. -- Susan Rowley, Canadian Polar Commission * Meridian, Fall/Winter 2005 *
Cruikshank’s book is sophisticated, rigorous, and exciting. Its pages brim with nuanced takes on epistemology, sensitive descriptions of ice, and rigorous analyses of cultural interactions. This is indeed a tour de force in interdisciplinary studies. -- Eric G. Wilson,Wake Forest University * American Historical Review *
Cruikshank’s book is sophisticated, rigorous, and exciting. Its pages brim with nuanced takes on epistemology, sensitive descriptions of ice, and rigorous analyses of cultural interactions. This is indeed a tour de force in interdisciplinary studies. -- Eric G. Wilson,Wake Forest University * American Historical Review *
Julie Cruikshank is a professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders (Nebraska 1990), winner of the 1992 MacDonald Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780774811873 |
| ISBN 10 | 0774811870 |
| Title | Do Glaciers Listen? |
| Author | Julie Cruikshank |
| Series | Mclean Family Canadian Studies Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of British Columbia Press |
| Year published | 2006-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 328 |
| Prizes | Winner of K.D. Srivastava Award, UBC Press 2006 (Canada), Winner of Vic Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology 2006 (United States), Winner of Clio Award (North), Canadian Historical Association 2007 (Canada), Winner of Julian Steward Award, American Anthropology Association 2006 (United States) |
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