Memory and Landscape (Paperback)

Kenneth Pratt

ISBN 10: 1771993154 / ISBN 13: 9781771993159

Published by AU Press, EDMONTON, 2023

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Paperback. The North is changing at an unprecedented rate as industrial development and the climate crisis disrupt not only the environment but also long-standing relationships to the land and traditional means of livelihood. Memory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North explores the ways in which Indigenous peoples in the Arctic have adapted to challenging circumstances, including past cultural and environmental changes. In this beautifully illustrated volume, contributors document how Indigenous communities in Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, and Siberia are seeking ways to maintain and strengthen their cultural identity while also embracing forces of disruption. Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors bring together oral history and scholarly research from disciplines such as linguistics, archaeology, and ethnohistory. With an emphasis on Indigenous place names, this volume illuminates how the landand the memories that are inextricably tied to itcontinue to define Indigenous identity. The perspectives presented here also serve to underscore the value of Indigenous knowledge and its essential place in future studies of the Arctic. Contributions by Vinnie Baron, Hugh Brody, Kenneth Buck, Anna Bunce, Donald Butler, Michael A. Chenlov, Aron L. Crowell, Peter C. Dawson, Martha Dowsley, Robert Drozda, Gary Holton, Colleen Hughes, Peter Jacobs, Emily Kearney-Williams, Igor Krupnik, Apayo Moore, Murielle Nagy, Mark Nuttall, Evon Peter, Louann Rank, William E. Simeone, Felix St-Aubin, and Will Stolz. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Memory and Landscape (Paperback)
• Publisher: AU Press, EDMONTON
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1771993154
• ISBN 13: 9781771993159
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Industrial development in the north has disrupted the environment and Indigenous livelihoods. Memory and Landscape explores how Indigenous peoples in the Arctic are adapting to such rapid change. In this beautifully illustrated volume, Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors use oral history and scholarly research from disciplines such as linguistics, archaeology, and ethnohistory to reveal the complex ways communities in the north—Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Siberia—strengthen their identities in the face of cultural disruption. The authors demonstrate why the resilience of Indigenous memory, marked in the land by place names and stories, must form the bedrock of Arctic studies.
 

About the Authors

Kenneth L. Pratt is an anthropologist and ethnohistorian with the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs and a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution’s Arctic Studies Center. He is based in Anchorage, Alaska.

Scott A. Heyes is a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution’s Arctic Studies Center and an adjunct professor at Monash University’s Indigenous Studies Centre in Australia.