Travels Among The Dena

Author : Frederica de Laguna
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295801056

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Travels Among the Dena by Frederica de Laguna Pdf

This robust and engaging travel narrative re-creates a remarkable adventure in the summer of 1935, when Frederica de Laguna, then in her late 20s, led a party of three other scientists down the rivers of the middle and lower Yukon valley, making a geological and archaeological reconnaissance. De Laguna has based her story on her field notes, journals, and letters home. She augments this first-hand account with excerpts from the reports of earlier explorers and data published after her trip. The result is a fascinating and informative cross-cut of historical events along the Yukon River and its tributaries. Travels Among the Dena chronicles the expedition from its outfitting in Seattle and the trip by steamer and railway to Fairbanks and Nenana, through an 80-day journey on skiffs down the Tanana and Yukon rivers to Holy Cross near the coast, with side trips on the Koyukuk, Khotol, and Innoko rivers, before a one-day return flight to Fairbanks with pioneer bush pilot Noel Wien. Maps illustrate the route taken downriver, and the author’s photographs capture images of the time. The resulting volume is both a delightful addition to the literature of travel adventure in Alaska and an important contribution to the discipline of anthropology.

Author : Frederica De Laguna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0295742151

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Travels Among the Dena by Frederica De Laguna Pdf

This robust and engaging travel narrative re-creates a remarkable adventure in the summer of 1935, when Frederica de Laguna, then in her late 20s, led a party of three other scientists down the rivers of the middle and lower Yukon valley, making a geological and archaeological reconnaissance. De Laguna has based her story on her field notes, journals, and letters home. She augments this first-hand account with excerpts from the reports of earlier explorers and data published after her trip. The result is a fascinating and informative cross-cut of historical events along the Yukon River and its tributaries. Travels Among the Dena chronicles the expedition from its outfitting in Seattle and the trip by steamer and railway to Fairbanks and Nenana, through an 80-day journey on skiffs down the Tanana and Yukon rivers to Holy Cross near the coast, with side trips on the Koyukuk, Khotol, and Innoko rivers, before a one-day return flight to Fairbanks with pioneer bush pilot Noel Wien. Maps illustrate the route taken downriver, and the author's photographs capture images of the time. The resulting volume is both a delightful addition to the literature of travel adventure in Alaska and an important contribution to the discipline of anthropology.

Author : Dena Davida
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781554583775

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Fields in Motion by Dena Davida Pdf

Fields in Motion: Ethnography in the Worlds of Dance examines the deeper meanings and resonances of artistic dance in contemporary culture. The book comprises four sections: methods and methodologies, autoethnography, pedagogies and creative processes, and choreographies as cultural and spiritual representations. The contributors bring an insiders insight to their accounts of the nature and function of these artistic practices, giving voice to dancers, dance teachers, creators, programmers, spectators, students, and scholars. International and intergenerational, this collection of groundbreaking scholarly research points to a new direction for both dance studies and dance anthropology. Traditionally the exclusive domain of aesthetic philosophers, the art of dance is here reframed as cultural practice, and its significance is revealed through a chorus of voices from practitioners and insider ethnographers.

Author : Frederica De Laguna
Publisher : UBS Publishers' Distributors
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0295974354

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Tales from the Dena by Frederica De Laguna Pdf

A collection of 41 Alaskan Indian tales, transcribed in 1935 by Frederica de Laguna and Norman Reynolds during an archaeological survey of the middle and lower Yukon River valley, are beautifully illustrated with 71 original wood engravings by Dale DeArmond. The stories, set in Distant Time when animals and birds were "human," range from serious myths to slyly humorous misadventures, including the exploits of the roguish Crow. -- from Barnes & Noble.

Author : Marie Mauzä,Michael Eugene Harkin,Sergei Kan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803282964

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Coming to Shore by Marie Mauzä,Michael Eugene Harkin,Sergei Kan Pdf

The Northwest Coast of North America was home to dozens of Native peoples at the time of its first contact with Europeans. The rich artistic, ceremonial, and oral traditions of these peoples and their preservation of cultural practices have made this region especially attractive for anthropological study. Coming to Shore provides a historical overview of the ethnology and ethnohistory of this region, with special attention given to contemporary, theoretically informed studies of communities and issues. The first book to explore the role of the Northwest Coast in three distinct national traditions of anthropology- American, Canadian, and French-Coming to Shore gives particular consideration to the importance of Claude Levi-Strauss and structuralism, as well as more recent social theory in the context of Northwest Coast anthropology. In addition contributors explore the blurring boundaries between theoretical and applied anthropology as well as contemporary issues such as land claims, criminal justice, environmentalism, economic development, and museum display. The contribution of Frederica de Laguna provides a historical background to the enterprise of Northwest Coast anthropology, as do the contributions of Claude Levi-Strauss and Marie Mauze. Marie Mauze is a senior researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Her books include Present Is Past: Some Uses of Tradition in Native Societies. Michael E. Harkin is a professor of anthropology at the University of Wyoming and the editor of Reassessing Revitalization Movements: Perspectives from North America and the Pacific Islands (Nebraska 2004). Sergei Kan is a professor of anthropology and Native American studies at Dartmouth College and author of Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries.

Author : Mark Nuttall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2306 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-23
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781136786808

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Encyclopedia of the Arctic by Mark Nuttall Pdf

With detailed essays on the Arctic's environment, wildlife, climate, history, exploration, resources, economics, politics, indigenous cultures and languages, conservation initiatives and more, this Encyclopedia is the only major work and comprehensive reference on this vast, complex, changing, and increasingly important part of the globe. Including 305 maps. This Encyclopedia is not only an interdisciplinary work of reference for all those involved in teaching or researching Arctic issues, but a fascinating and comprehensive resource for residents of the Arctic, and all those concerned with global environmental issues, sustainability, science, and human interactions with the environment.

Author : Alice Beck Kehoe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781315431604

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Controversies in Archaeology by Alice Beck Kehoe Pdf

Offers to introductory students a method of evaluating and assessing these claims about the past in this reader-friendly, concise text. She shows how to use the methods of science to challenge the legitimacy of pseudoscientific proclamations and develop reasonable interpretations on controversial issues.

Author : Frederica De Laguna,Alfred Irving Hallowell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803280084

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American Anthropology, 1888-1920 by Frederica De Laguna,Alfred Irving Hallowell Pdf

The formative years of American anthropology were characterized by intellectual energy and excitement, the identification of key interpretive issues, and the beginnings of a prodigious amount of fieldwork and recording. The American Anthropological Association (AAA) was born as anthropology emerged as a formal discipline with specialized subfields; fieldwork among Native communities proliferated across North America, yielding a wealth of ethnographic information that began to surface in the flagship journal, the American Anthropologist; and researchers increasingly debated and probed deeper into the roots and significance of ritual, myth, language, social organization, and the physical make-up and prehistory of Native Americans. The fifty-five selections in this volume represent the interests of and accomplishments in American anthropology from the establishment of the American Anthropologist through World War I. The articles in their entirety showcase the state of the subfields of anthropology?archaeology, linguistics, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology?as they were imagined and practiced at the dawn of the twentieth century. Examples of important ethnographic accounts and interpretive debates are also included. Introducing this collection is a historical overview of the beginnings of American anthropology by A. Irving Hallowell, a former president of the AAA.

Author : Lydia Black
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781889963044

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Russians in Alaska, 1732-1867 by Lydia Black Pdf

This definitive work, the crown jewel in the distinguished career of Russian America scholar Lydia T. Black, presents a comprehensive overview of the Russian presence in Alaska. Drawing on extensive archival research and employing documents only recently made available to scholars, Black shows how Russian expansion was the culmination of centuries of social and economic change. Black s work challenges the standard perspective on the Russian period in Alaska as a time of unbridled exploitation of Native inhabitants and natural resources. Without glossing over the harsher aspects of the period, Black acknowledges the complexity of relations between Russians and Native peoples. She chronicles the lives of ordinary men and women the merchants and naval officers, laborers and clergy who established Russian outposts in Alaska. These early colonists carried with them the Orthodox faith and the Russian language; their legacy endures in architecture and place names from Baranof Island to the Pribilofs. This deluxe volume features fold-out maps and color illustrations of rare paintings and sketches from Russian, American, Japanese, and European sources many have never before been published. An invaluable source for historians and anthropologists, this accessible volume brings to life a dynamic period in Russian and Alaskan history. A tribute to Black s life as a scholar and educator, "Russians in Alaska" will become a classic in the field."

Author : Thomas Alton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Alaska
ISBN : 9781602233843

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Alaska in the Progressive Age by Thomas Alton Pdf

"Alaska emerged from obscurity in the late 1890s, and the growth of its population and economy occurred during an era of Progressive change when the centers of power were shifting from giant business conglomerates to government-mandated regulation and socio-economic reform. The territory benefitted greatly, but progress arrived piecemeal over the course of decades. The pioneers were eager to see Alaska develop. They wanted systems of transportation, communication, and effective law, and they wanted them now. When Congress was slow to act, Alaskans responded with cries of neglect and abuse, and those complaints festered and persisted. Such feelings were not wrong or misplaced. Alaskans living in the moment had no way of peering into the future. But from today's perspective we can see that over time Alaska as both a territory and a state has been enriched far more than neglected or abused by the United States government. The journalist and the historian view the same events through different colored glasses. Each writer brings a unique point of view, and it is these fresh interpretations that keep history alive and vital."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Alex Benson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469674643

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Sound-Blind by Alex Benson Pdf

In the 1880s, a new medical term flashed briefly into public awareness in the United States. Children who had trouble distinguishing between similar speech sounds were said to suffer from "sound-blindness." The term is now best remembered through anthropologist Franz Boas, whose work deeply influenced the way we talk about cultural difference. In this fascinating work of literary and cultural history, Alex Benson takes the concept as an opening onto other stories of listening, writing, and power—stories that expand our sense of how a syllable, a word, a gesture, or a song can be put into print, and why it matters. Benson interweaves ethnographies, memoirs, local-color stories, modernist novels, silent film scripts, and more. Taken together, these seemingly disparate texts—by writers including John M. Oskison, Helen Keller, W. E. B. Du Bois, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Elsie Clews Parsons—show that the act of transcription, never neutral, is conditioned by the histories of race, land, and ability. By carefully tracing these conditions, Benson argues, we can tease out much that has been left off the record in narratives of American nationhood and American literature.

Author : Melissa DeVaughn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780470228999

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The Unofficial Guide to Adventure Travel in Alaska by Melissa DeVaughn Pdf

From the publishers of The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World "A Tourist's Best Friend!" --Chicago Sun-Times "Indispensable" --The New York Times Four Great Features and Benefits offered ONLY by The Unofficial Guide: * Lodging and dining rated for quality and value * Great ideas for family travel * An insider's guide to the top outfitters for every activity * Complete planning information for escorted tours or travel on your own

Author : Mariana Starke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Europe
ISBN : MINN:31951002311585B

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Travels in Europe by Mariana Starke Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112934901

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American Indian Culture and Research Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Stream measurements
ISBN : UCR:31210024758458

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Measurement of Time of Travel and Dispersion in Streams by Dye Tracing by Anonim Pdf