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Personal Author:
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Cruikshank, Julie, author.
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Title:
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Do glaciers listen? : local knowledge, colonial encounters, and social imagination / Julie Cruikshank.
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Publication:
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Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press, [2005]
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Copyright date:
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©2005
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Physical description:
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1 online resource (xii, 312 pages) : illustrations, maps
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text txt
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computer c
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online resource cr
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data file
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Series Added Entry-U:
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Brenda and David McLean Canadian studies series.
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Subject term:
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Glaciers--Social aspects--Saint Elias Mountains.
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Tlingit Indians--Saint Elias Mountains--Folklore.
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Athapascan Indians--Saint Elias Mountains--Folklore.
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Glaciers--Saint Elias Mountains--Folklore.
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Human ecology--Saint Elias Mountains.
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Oral tradition--Saint Elias Mountains.
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Glaciers in literature.
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Climatic changes--Saint Elias Mountains.
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Tlingit Indians--Saint Elias Mountains--Folklore.
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Glaciers dans la littérature.
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Climat--Changements--Saint-Elias, Monts.
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Tradition orale--Saint-Elias, Monts.
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Écologie humaine--Saint-Elias, Monts.
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Glaciers--Saint-Elias, Monts--Folklore.
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Athapascan--Saint-Elias, Monts--Folklore.
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Tlingit--Saint-Elias, Monts--Folklore.
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Subject term:
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Glaciers--Aspect social--Saint-Elias, Monts.
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Subject term:
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Tlingit--Saint-Elias, Monts--Folklore.
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Geographic term:
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Saint Elias Mountains--Discovery and exploration.
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Geographic term:
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Saint Elias Mountains--Folklore.
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Geographic term:
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Saint-Elias, Monts--Découverte et exploration.
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Saint-Elias, Monts--Folklore.
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Bibliography note:
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-302) and index.
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Summary:
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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. European visitors brought with them varying conceptions of nature as sublime, as spiritual, or as a resource for human progress. They saw glaciers as inanimate, subject to empirical investigation and measurement. Aboriginal oral histories, conversely, described glaciers as sentient, animate, and quick to respond to human behaviour. In each case, however, the experiences and ideas surrounding glaciers were incorporated into interpretations of social relations. Focusing on these 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 fascinating read and a rich addition to circumpolar literature.--
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Biographical note:
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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
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Series Statement:
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(Brenda and David McLean Canadian studies series)
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ISBN:
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9780774851404 (electronic book)
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ISBN:
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0774851406 (electronic book)
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ISBN:
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9780774811873 (electronic book)
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ISBN:
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0774811870 (electronic book)
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ISBN:
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(ISBN invalid)0774811862 (cloth)
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ISBN:
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(ISBN invalid)9780774811866 (cloth)
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ISBN:
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(ISBN invalid)0295985135 (alk. paper)
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ISBN:
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(ISBN invalid)9780295985138
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ISBN:
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(ISBN invalid)0295985143
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ISBN:
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(ISBN invalid)9780295985145
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Standard identifier#:
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2383529
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Standard identifier#:
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3012534
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Publisher #:
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404168 CaOOCEL
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key:
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7473134
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