Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination |
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| Author:
| Cruikshank, Julie |
| Series title: | Brenda and David Mclean Canadian Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7748-5976-9 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2010 |
| Publisher: | University of British Columbia Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
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Book Description:
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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.
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.