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Native Cultures in Alaska: Looking Forward, Looking Back de Tricia Brown

Native Cultures in Alaska: Looking Forward, Looking Back: Alaska Geographic

Editat de Tricia Brown, Alaska Northwest Publishing, Alaska Geographic
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 feb 2012
In the minds of most Americans, Native culture in Alaska amounts to Eskimos and igloos....The latest publication of the Alaska Geographic Society offers an accessible and attractive antidote to such misconceptions. Native Cultures in Alaska blends beautiful photographs with informative text to create a striking portrait of the state's diverse and dynamic indigenous population.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780882407562
ISBN-10: 0882407562
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 154 x 228 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: ALASKA NORTHWEST BOOKS
Seria Alaska Geographic

Cuprins

Introduction       Uniquely Alaskan
Map
Chapter 1        Alaska’s Native Cultures and Homelands
Chapter 2        Looking Forward, Looking Back
Chapter 3        Unanga{ (Aleut)
            Riding Ungiikan Home, by Barbara Švarný Carlson
Chapter 4        Sugpiaq (Alutiiq)
            Who Are We, Anyway? by Gordon Pullar
Chapter 5        Yup’ik
            The Four Seasons of Manokotak, by Anecia Lomack
           Yup’ik Dance Masks: Stories of Culture
Chapter 6        Siberian Yupik
Chapter 7        Iñupiat
            A Time for Whaling, by Sheila Frankson
Chapter 8        Athabascan
            People of the Yukon Flats, by Velma Wallis
Chapter 9        Eyak
Chapter 10      Tlingit
            Carving Traditions, by Nathan Jackson
Chapter 11      Tsimshian
Chapter 12      Haida
            Delores Churchill: The Weaver’s Daughter
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

"It is a real treat to encounter this book. . . It gives the origin of the people as far as known, tells something of their traditional crafts and arts, illustrates with photographs of those and the people, and best of all, addresses their home territories and proper names. . . This little book gives a clear picture of the Native Alaskans working on a nice balance between the modern world and their traditional one, ‘Looking forward and looking back’. . . Buy one to keep and one for a friend Outside."
—Dee Longenbaugh, ObservatoryBooks.com, Sitka Sentinel

“. . . lavishly illustrated with lots of beautiful photographs . . . a good volume for school libraries.”
—David A. James, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Notă biografică

Tricia Brown is a full-time writer and editor.  She received her bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from the University of Alaska Anchorage. Since 1978, she has traveled nearly every inch of Alaska's road system and flown into its remotest places while writing and editing for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, the Anchorage Daily News and Alaska magazine. She has written books for adults and children on Alaska life, travel and history.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Alaska Natives are not a single, homogeneous entity. Broadly identified by anthropologists as Aleuts, Eskimos, and Indians, Alaska Natives belong, more specifically, to one of twenty language and culture groups. Within those are particular village and tribal affiliations. And though many Natives have moved to Alaska’s urban areas, each identifies with a different geographic region where their ancestors lived and where their home villages are today.
This book takes a closer look at the rich and diverse cultures of Alaska’s various Native groups, and how they continue cultural practices and activities within the context of contemporary society.
                                                                                                —from the Introduction
 
As the first people crossed the Bering Land Bridge into North America, they arrived in what is now called Alaska. Today, many of the descendants of those migrating peoples who stayed in Alaska still live here, speaking their ancestral languages, performing ancestral dances, telling ancestral stories, and following values handed down from generation to generation. Since the short time span of about twenty-seven decades ago when the first Europeans discovered and explored parts of the Alaskan coastline under the command of Vitus Bering, Alaska Natives have met the challenges and solved the problems of today’s world while more and more looking within their cultures for solutions.
Using updated maps, historical pictures, new contemporary photographs, and updated text, the revised edition of Native Cultures in Alaska: Looking Forward, Looking Back is now available in an elegant and accessible format. We are pleased to publish this work in collaboration with the Alaska Geographic Society.

Descriere

In the minds of most Americans, Native culture in Alaska amounts to Eskimos and igloos. This book offers an attractive antidote to such misconceptions. Blending beautiful photographs with informative text, this book creates a striking portrait of the state's diverse indigenous population.