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Book Being and Place among the Tlingit

Download or read book Being and Place among the Tlingit written by Thomas F. Thornton and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Being and Place among the Tlingit, anthropologist Thomas F. Thornton examines the concept of place in the language, social structure, economy, and ritual of southeast Alaska's Tlingit Indians. Place signifies not only a specific geographical location but also reveals the ways in which individuals and social groups define themselves. The notion of place consists of three dimensions - space, time, and experience - which are culturally and environmentally structured. Thornton examines each in detail to show how individual and collective Tlingit notions of place, being, and identity are formed. As he observes, despite cultural and environmental changes over time, particularly in the post-contact era since the late eighteenth century, Tlingits continue to bind themselves and their culture to places and landscapes in distinctive ways. He offers insight into how Tlingits in particular, and humans in general, conceptualize their relationship to the lands they inhabit, arguing for a study of place that considers all aspects of human interaction with landscape. In Tlingit, it is difficult even to introduce oneself without referencing places in Lingit Aani (Tlingit Country). Geographic references are embedded in personal names, clan names, house names, and, most obviously, in k-waan names, which define regions of dwelling. To say one is Sheet'ka K-waan defines one as a member of the Tlingit community that inhabits Sheet'ka (Sitka). Being and Place among the Tlingit makes a substantive contribution to the literature on the Tlingit, the Northwest Coast cultural area, Native American and indigenous studies, and to the growing social scientific and humanistic literature on space, place, and landscape.

Book Proceedings of the Third Glacier Bay Science Symposium  1993

Download or read book Proceedings of the Third Glacier Bay Science Symposium 1993 written by Daniel R. Engstrom and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inhabited Wilderness

Download or read book Inhabited Wilderness written by Theodore Catton and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land reborn -- The privileged and the dispossessed -- Fallen indians -- "A game country without rival in America" -- The saga of the seventy-mile kid -- Bob Marshall's Alaska -- The lost tribe -- "We Eskimos would like to join the Sierra Club"

Book Navigating Troubled Waters

Download or read book Navigating Troubled Waters written by James R. Mackovjak and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Alaska Game Commission to the Secretary of the Interior for the Period

Download or read book Annual Report of the Alaska Game Commission to the Secretary of the Interior for the Period written by United States. Alaska Game Commission and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alaska Subsistence

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  • Author : Frank Blaine Norris
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  • Release : 2002
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  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Alaska Subsistence written by Frank Blaine Norris and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study is a chronicle of how subsistence management in Alaska has grown and evolved"--P. viii.

Book Pacific Builder   Engineer

Download or read book Pacific Builder Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the United States Forest Service in Alaska

Download or read book A History of the United States Forest Service in Alaska written by Lawrence Rakestraw and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The U S  Forest Service

Download or read book The U S Forest Service written by Harold K. Steen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Forest Service celebrates its centennial in 2005. With a new preface by the author, this edition of Harold K. Steen’s classic history (originally published in 1976) provides a broad perspective on the Service’s administrative and policy controversies and successes. Steen updates the book with discussions of a number of recent concerns, among them the spotted owl issue; wilderness and roadless areas; new research on habitat, biodiversity, and fire prevention; below-cost timber sales; and workplace diversity in a male-oriented field.

Book Haa Tuwun  agu Y  s  for Healing Our Spirit

Download or read book Haa Tuwun agu Y s for Healing Our Spirit written by Nora Dauenhauer and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of Tlingit oratory recorded in performance, featuring Tlingit texts with facing English translations and detailed annotations; photographs of the orators and the settings in which the speeches were delivered; and biographies of the elders. Most speeches were recorded on Canada's Northwest Coast, primarily in British Columbia, between 1968 and 1988, but two date from 1899. Includes references and glossary.

Book Report on Population and Resources of Alaska at the Eleventh Census  1890

Download or read book Report on Population and Resources of Alaska at the Eleventh Census 1890 written by United States. Census Office and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geologic Studies in Alaska by the U S  Geological Survey During 1987

Download or read book Geologic Studies in Alaska by the U S Geological Survey During 1987 written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska

Download or read book Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska written by Henry C. Berg and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inventory of the mines and prospects of Alaska and their geologic settings.

Book Pacific American Fisheries  Inc

Download or read book Pacific American Fisheries Inc written by August C. Radke and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2002-01-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work documents the rise and fall of Pacific American Fisheries, a salmon packing company based in Bellingham, Washington, which also had a substantial presence in Alaska. It covers the company's history from its beginnings when Roland Onffroy arrived in early 1898 and saw an opportunity to start a business and make a mint using the abundant supply of salmon in nearby Puget Sound, up until its closing in 1966. The company's story is presented chronologically as unfolding local, regional, national, and international events impacted the fortunes of the company, its employees, and the town that housed it. It also takes a close look at the entrepreneurs, developers, businessmen, and Asian labor force that were associated with the company. PAF's history can also be read as the story of how the United States was developed as people moved from the Atlantic to Pacific coasts and how the Pacific coast was targeted for development due to its natural resources that could easily be exploited for profit.

Book Alaska Railroad Record

Download or read book Alaska Railroad Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Haa atxaayi haa kusteeyix sitee

Download or read book Haa atxaayi haa kusteeyix sitee written by Richard G. Newton and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: