Do Glaciers Listen?

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Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination
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AuthorJulie Cruikshank
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
SeriesBrenda and David McLean Canadian Studies
GenreAnthropology
Published2005
PublisherUBC Press
Pages328
ISBN 9780774811866

Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination is a 2005 book by Canadian anthropologist Julie Cruikshank. Focusing on the Mount Saint Elias region where Alaska, the Yukon, and British Columbia meet, Cruikshank highlights the physical and cultural changes of the region by examining glaciers. The late stages of the Little Ice Age brought about significant physical changes to glaciers in the region, and Cruikshank examines the cosmologies and interpretations of both local Indigenous populations - in particular the Tlingit and Athapaskan peoples - and European explorers who began entering the region at that time. [1]

Awards

Do Glaciers Listen won the 2006 Vic Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology; [2] the 2006 Clio Prize (North) from the Canadian Historical Association; [3] and the 2006 Julian Steward Award from the American Anthropological Association. [4]

References

  1. Zarger, R. K. (2007). Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination. Journal of Ecological Anthropology, 11(1), 80-81.
  2. "SHA Prize Winners | Society for Humanistic Anthropology". sha.americananthro.org. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  3. "CHA Prizes". cha-shc.ca. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  4. "Julian Steward Award | Anthropology and Environment Society". ae.americananthro.org. Retrieved 17 July 2020.