Upside Down Seasons among the Nunamiut |
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| Author:
| Blackman, Margaret B. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-280-37427-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2004 |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $27.95 |
Book Description:
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In the roadless Brooks Range Mountains of northern Alaska sits Anaktuvuk Pass, a small, tightly knit Nunamiut Eskimo village. Formerly nomadic hunters of caribou, the Nunamiut of Anaktuvuk now find their destiny tied to that of Alaska s oil-rich North Slope, their lives suddenly subject to a century s worth of innovations, from electricity and bush planes to snow machines and the Internet. Anthropologist Margaret B. Blackman has been doing summer fieldwork among the Nunamiut over a...
More DescriptionIn the roadless Brooks Range Mountains of northern Alaska sits Anaktuvuk Pass, a small, tightly knit Nunamiut Eskimo village. Formerly nomadic hunters of caribou, the Nunamiut of Anaktuvuk now find their destiny tied to that of Alaska s oil-rich North Slope, their lives suddenly subject to a century s worth of innovations, from electricity and bush planes to snow machines and the Internet. Anthropologist Margaret B. Blackman has been doing summer fieldwork among the Nunamiut over a span of almost twenty years, an experience richly and movingly recounted in this book."