Upside down seasons among the Nunamiut / Margaret B. Blackman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blackman, Margaret B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Alaska--Anaktuvuk Pass.

Ethnology.

Nunamiut Eskimos--Alaska--Anaktuvuk Pass--Social life and customs.

Nunamiut Eskimos.

Nunamiut Eskimos--Alaska--Anaktuvuk Pass--History.

Anaktuvuk Pass (Alaska)--Social life and customs.

Anaktuvuk Pass (Alaska).

Anaktuvuk Pass (Alaska)--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the roadless Brooks Range Mountains of northern Alaska sits Anaktuvuk Pass, a small, tightly knit Nunamiut Eskimo village. Formerly nomadic hunters of caribou, the Nunamiut of Anaktuvuk now find their destiny tied to that of Alaska's oil-rich North Slope, their lives suddenly subject to a century's worth of innovations, from electricity and bush planes to snow machines and the Internet. Anthropologist Margaret B. Blackman has been doing summer fieldwork among the Nunamiut over a span of almost twenty years, an experience richly and movingly recounted in this book. A vivid descriptio

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; August; Tulugak Lake and Beyond; Maps; Anaktuvuk Pass, You Copy?; They Come In; They Go Out; Picking; The Upside Down Season; Fieldnotes; Writing History from the Pass; The "New" Eskimo; Of Meat and Hunger and Everlasting Gob Stoppers; Staying Home; Masks; The Only Road That Goes There Is the Information Superhighway; Remembering Susie Paneak; The Exhibition; Airplane! Airplaaane!; Dispatches from the Field; Fifty Years in One Place; Weekend Nomads; The Things We Carry; Town

May-North of NorthEd's Place; Happy July Fourth; Faces of the Nunamiut; Notes; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-206).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610374274

9780803265073

0803265077

9781280374272

1280374276

9780803203945

0803203942

OCLC:

54662942