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Book Arctic Expressions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Joan Gustavison
  • Publisher : Kleinburg, Ont. : McMichael Canadian Art Collection
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 154 pages

Download or read book Arctic Expressions written by Susan Joan Gustavison and published by Kleinburg, Ont. : McMichael Canadian Art Collection. This book was released on 1994 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Glossary of Arctic and Subarctic Terms

Download or read book Glossary of Arctic and Subarctic Terms written by Air University (U.S.). Arctic, Desert, and Tropic Information Center and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Atiqput

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  • Author : Carol Payne
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2022-09-16
  • ISBN : 0228013356
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Atiqput written by Carol Payne and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our names – Atiqput – are very meaningful. They are our identification. They are our Spirits. We are named after what's in the sky for strength, what’s in the water ... the land, body parts. Every name is attached to every part of our body and mind. Yes, every name is alive. Every name has a meaning. Much of our names have been misspelled and many of them have lost their meanings forever. Our Project Naming has been about identifying Inuit, who became nameless over the years, just "unidentified eskimos ..." With Project Naming, we have put Inuit meanings back in the pictures, back to life." Piita Irniq For over two decades, Inuit collaborators living across Inuit Nunangat and in the South have returned names to hundreds of previously anonymous Inuit seen in historical photographs held by Library and Archives Canada as part of Project Naming. This innovative photo-based history research initiative was established by the Inuit school Nunavut Sivuniksavut and the national archive. Atiqput celebrates Inuit naming practices and through them honours Inuit culture, history, and storytelling. Narratives by Inuit elders, including Sally Kate Webster, Piita Irniq, Manitok Thompson, Ann Meekitjuk Hanson, and David Serkoak, form the heart of the book, as they reflect on naming traditions and the intergenerational conversations spurred by the photographic archive. Other contributions present scholarly insights and research projects that extend Project Naming’s methodology, interspersed with pictorial essays by the artist Barry Pottle and the filmmaker Asinnajaq. Through oral testimony and photography, Atiqput rewrites the historical record created by settler societies and challenges a legacy of colonial visualization.

Book Technical Documentary Report

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory (U.S.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Technical Documentary Report written by Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arctic Dreams

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  • Author : Barry Lopez
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2024-07-23
  • ISBN : 1668080028
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Arctic Dreams written by Barry Lopez and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Award This bestselling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing. The Arctic is a perilous place. Only a few species of wild animals can survive its harsh climate. In this modern classic, Barry Lopez explores the many-faceted wonders of the Far North: its strangely stunted forests, its mesmerizing aurora borealis, its frozen seas. Musk oxen, polar bears, narwhal, and other exotic beasts of the region come alive through Lopez’s passionate and nuanced observations. And, as he examines the history and culture of its indigenous communities, along with parallel narratives of intrepid, often underprepared and subsequently doomed polar explorers, Lopez drives to the heart of why the austere and formidable Arctic is also a constant source of breathtaking beauty, mystery, and wonder. Written in prose as pure as the land it describes, Arctic Dreams is a timeless mediation on the ability of the landscape to shape our dreams and to haunt our imaginations.

Book Correct English

Download or read book Correct English written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Annotated Bibliography of Inuit Art

Download or read book An Annotated Bibliography of Inuit Art written by Richard C. Crandall and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-25 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological digs have turned up sculptures in Inuit lands that are thousands of years old, but "Inuit art" as it is known today only dates back to the beginning of the 1900s. Early art was traditionally produced from soft materials such as whalebone, and tools and objects were also fashioned out of stone, bone, and ivory because these materials were readily available. The Inuit people are known not just for their sculpture but for their graphic art as well, the most prominent forms being lithographs and stonecuts. This work affords easy access to information to those interested in any type of Inuit art. There are annotated entries on over 3,761 articles, books, catalogues, government documents, and other publications.

Book Military Small Group Performance Under Isolation and Stress

Download or read book Military Small Group Performance Under Isolation and Stress written by Saul B. Sells and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canada s Changing North

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  • Author : William C. Wonders
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2003-08-27
  • ISBN : 0773571329
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book Canada s Changing North written by William C. Wonders and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003-08-27 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many recent developments explored in Canada's Changing North is the legal recognition of aboriginal rights by the Canadian state, which has led directly to significant increases in their political and economic power. It also examines how economic development, which has long focused on non-renewable natural resources, particularly minerals, has grown to an enormous scale. Development of arctic oil and gas, which hinges on world supplies and national and international politics, has meant major changes across the North. Some of the new national parks in the Canadian North are already under threat from mineral development. Northern tourism has made it possible for a wide variety of affluent visitors to visit hitherto remote areas, affecting the ecology. The final selection, on northern challenges, discusses critical issues such as the impact of climatic change, the social needs (e.g. housing, education) of a rapidly increasing aboriginal population, environmental protection of unique regions, and defence of Arctic sovereignty. Of the sixty-two readings in this edition, forty-one are new.

Book  Craft  Community and the Material Culture of Place and Politics  19th 20th Century

Download or read book Craft Community and the Material Culture of Place and Politics 19th 20th Century written by Janice Helland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Craft practice has a rich history and remains vibrant, sustaining communities while negotiating cultures within local or international contexts. More than two centuries of industrialization have not extinguished handmade goods; rather, the broader force of industrialization has redefined and continues to define the context of creation, deployment and use of craft objects. With object study at the core, this book brings together a collection of essays that address the past and present of craft production, its use and meaning within a range of community settings from the Huron Wendat of colonial Quebec to the Girls? Friendly Society of twentieth-century England. The making of handcrafted objects has and continues to flourish despite the powerful juggernaut of global industrialization, whether inspired by a calculated refutation of industrial sameness, an essential means to sustain a cultural community under threat, or a rejection of the imposed definitions by a dominant culture. The broader effects of urbanizing, imperial and globalizing projects shape the multiple contexts of interaction and resistance that can define craft ventures through place and time. By attending to the political histories of craft objects and their makers, over the last few centuries, these essays reveal the creative persistence of various hand mediums and the material debates they represented.

Book Diversity Counts

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  • Author : Anne Dymond
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2019-06-30
  • ISBN : 0773557830
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Diversity Counts written by Anne Dymond and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the common belief that art galleries will naturally become more gender equitable over time, the fact is that many art institutions in Canada have become even less so over the last decade, with female artists making up less than 25 per cent of the contemporary exhibitions of several major galleries. In the first large-scale overview of gender diversity in Canadian art exhibitions, Anne Dymond makes a persuasive plea for more consciously equitable curating. Drawing on data from nearly one hundred institutions, Diversity Counts reveals that while some galleries are relatively equitable, many continue to marginalize female and racialized artists. The book pursues an interdisciplinary approach, considering the art world's resistance to numeric data, discourses on representation and identity, changing conceptualizations of institutional responsibility over time, and different ways particular institutions manage inclusion and exclusion. A thoughtful examination of the duty of public galleries to represent underserved communities, Dymond's study bravely navigates the unspoken criteria for acceptance in the curatorial world. Demonstrating how important hard data is for inclusivity, Diversity Counts is a timely analysis that brings the art world up to date on progressive movements for social transformation.

Book Saratoga Backtalk

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  • Author : Stephen Dobyns
  • Publisher : Sphere
  • Release : 2013-08-01
  • ISBN : 1405529431
  • Pages : 147 pages

Download or read book Saratoga Backtalk written by Stephen Dobyns and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morally flexible sidekick Victor Plotz takes centre stage in the eighth mystery for everyman detective Charlie Bradshaw in Saratoga Springs. Wealthy stable owner Bernard Logan comes to Charlie and Victor for help, believing his young wife is trying to kill him. Three days later, a horse kicks him to death. With Charlie away, Victor throws himself into solving the case himself, finding all manner of rats coming out of the woodwork who wanted Bernard dead. The question is, who did it?

Book A Sense of Duty

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  • Author : Sheelagh Kelly
  • Publisher : Canelo
  • Release : 2017-08-21
  • ISBN : 1911591959
  • Pages : 798 pages

Download or read book A Sense of Duty written by Sheelagh Kelly and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first of an extraordinary trilogy of love, tragedy, and hope, there’s a high price to pay for happiness, from the author of the Feeney Family Saga. While her brothers and sisters resign themselves to a life of drudgery, Katherine “Kit” Kilmaster yearns for better things. When she is tempted into dangerous situations with young men above her station, the family are scandalized. Kit revels in London Society, until an unexpected consequence of her free-and-easy lifestyle stops her in her tracks. Thrust back into village life, Kit falls prey to malicious gossip. Overwhelmed, she finally heeds her family’s advice and is almost destroyed. But then a chance encounter promises to deliver the husband and children she has always wanted—provided her shameful secret is not revealed . . . Praise for the writing of Sheelagh Kelly “Sheelagh Kelly surely can write.” —Sunderland Echo “Genuinely perceptive portrayals of human relationships.” —Irish Independent

Book Presenting and Representing Environments

Download or read book Presenting and Representing Environments written by Graham Humphrys and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The presentation and representation of the environment occurs throughout academia and across all news media. The strict protocols of science often clash with environmental information available from sources that dwell on subjective aesthetic, emotional and personal sensitivities. This book challenge the reader, as student, teacher, researcher or policy maker, to reflect critically on the ways that environments are studied, interpreted, presented and represented, in education and public policy.

Book Happy People Live Here

Download or read book Happy People Live Here written by C. Sean McGee and published by C. Sean McGee. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the ninth floor of an upscale apartment, a young couple will come to terms with the loss of their son and the impending release of their daughter from a psychiatric clinic on her fourth birthday. In the three days leading to Korine being released from the clinic, The Mother, The Father and Linda will each, in their escapism, deal with their own demons. And each will captain their negation and ridicule before eventually, on the third day, falling into some kind of teary and blissful acceptance. This is a story of happiness, regardless of the hurt and suffering of which it is sometimes garbed.

Book Mapping Modernisms

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  • Author : Elizabeth Harney
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2018-11-01
  • ISBN : 0822372614
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Mapping Modernisms written by Elizabeth Harney and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping Modernisms brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists. Expanding the contours of modernity and its visual products, the contributors illustrate how these artists engaged with ideas of Primitivism through visual forms and philosophical ideas. Although often overlooked in the literature on global modernisms, artists, artworks, and art patrons moved within and across national and imperial borders, carrying, appropriating, or translating objects, images, and ideas. These itineraries made up the dense networks of modern life, contributing to the crafting of modern subjectivities and of local, transnationally inflected modernisms. Addressing the silence on indigeneity in established narratives of modernism, the contributors decenter art history's traditional Western orientation and prompt a re-evaluation of canonical understandings of twentieth-century art history. Mapping Modernisms is the first book in Modernist Exchanges, a multivolume project dedicated to rewriting the history of modernism and modernist art to include artists, theorists, art forms, and movements from around the world. Contributors. Bill Anthes, Peter Brunt, Karen Duffek, Erin Haney, Elizabeth Harney, Heather Igloliorte, Sandra Klopper, Ian McLean, Anitra Nettleton, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Ruth B. Phillips, W. Jackson Rushing III, Damian Skinner, Nicholas Thomas, Norman Vorano

Book Problems of Polar Research

    Book Details:
  • Author : American Geographical Society of New York
  • Publisher : New York : American Geographical Society
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book Problems of Polar Research written by American Geographical Society of New York and published by New York : American Geographical Society. This book was released on 1928 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ways and means of polar exploration and problems needing further study.