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Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Stubborn Particularities of VoicePart 1: Matters of Locality1 Memories of the Little Ice Age2 Constructing Life Stories: Glaciers as Social Spaces3 Listening for Different StoriesPart 2: Practices of Exploration4 Two Centuries of Stories from Lituya Bay: Nature, Culture, and La Pérouse5 Bringing Icy Regions Home: John Muir in Alaska6 Edward James Glave, the Alsek, and the CongoPart 3: Scientific Research in Sentient Places7 Mapping Boundaries: From Stories to Borders8 Melting Glaciers and Emerging HistoriesNotesBibliographyIndex
