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Do glaciers listen? : local knowledge, colonial encounters, and social imagination
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ISBN: 0295985135 0295985143 0774811862 9780295985138 9780295985145 9780774811873 0774811870 9780774811866 9780774851404 Year: 2005 Publisher: Vancouver Seattle UBC Press University of Washington Press

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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." "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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Tlingit Indians --- Athapascan Indians --- Glaciers --- Ice fields --- Human ecology --- Tlingit (Indiens) --- Athapascan (Indiens) --- Champs de glace --- Ecologie humaine --- Saint Elias Mountains --- Saint-Elias, Monts --- Discovery and exploration. --- Découverte et exploration --- Oral tradition --- Fields, Ice --- Icefields --- Cryosphere --- Ice --- Glaciology --- Meltwater --- Athabascan Indians --- Athabaskan Indians --- Athapaskan Indians --- Indians of North America --- Koloshi Indians --- Koluschan Indians --- Lingít Indians --- Thlinket Indians --- Thlinkithen Indians --- Tlinkit Indians --- Coast Ranges --- Environmental conditions. --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Discovery and exploration --- Environmental conditions --- #SBIB:39A5 --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- 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 --- Saint Elias Mountains - Discovery and exploration --- Saint Elias Mountains - Folklore --- Saint Elias Mountains - Environmental conditions --- Glaciers in literature --- Climatic changes --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Global environmental change --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Environmental aspects

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