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The Man Who Became a Caribou de Craig Mishler

The Man Who Became a Caribou

Autor Craig Mishler, Kenneth Frank
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 ian 2019
"Dinjii Vadzaih Dhidlit: The Man Who Became a Caribou is a new bilingual volume based on a series of oral interviews with Gwich'in elders living in rural northeast Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Richly illustrated, the book covers a wide range of topics based on traditional harvesting and use of caribou from ancient to contemporary times. It also reveals traditional beliefs and taboos about caribou and includes a detailed naming system for caribou anatomy."--
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ISBN-13: 9780996748070
ISBN-10: 0996748075
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: 16 pages color + b&W throughout
Dimensiuni: 170 x 239 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.95 kg
Ediția:Bilingvă
Editura: International Polar Institute

Notă biografică

Craig Mishler has been doing ethnographic field work in Alaska since 1972. He received his doctorate in folklore and anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981. Craig made a career as an historian with the Alaska Department of Natural Resources and later as a subsistence resource specialist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Subsistence where he did extensive field work in Kodiak. Later, he was a research professor at the Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He is also the author, co-author, or editor of ten books, including Dinjii Vadzaih Dhidlit: The Man Who Became a Caribou, published with Kenneth Frank in 2020 by the IPI Press.

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The goal of The Man Who Became a Caribou is to transmit to the reader the vast knowledge of the Gwich'in of caribou and its role in their lives, how it shapes their worldview and how they live and how it is used.