Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination [Audiobook] download free by Julie Cruikshank
- Listen audiobook: Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination
- Author: Julie Cruikshank
- Release date: 2010/8/31
- Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780774811873
- Rating: 9.76 of 10
- Votes: 284
- Review by: Harlan Ocasio
- Review rating: 9.84 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/2
- Duration: 4H1M39S in 256 kbps (65.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-15
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, WMA, WAV, AIFF, MP3, AC3, OGG, FLAC (compression RAR, 7Z, GZ, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 328
- Includes a PDF summary of 34 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 25M36S (6.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The glaciers creepLike snakes that watch their prey, from their far fountains,Slow rolling on.- Percy Shelley, 'Mont Blanc,' 1816Glaciers in America's far northwest figure prominently in indigenous oral traditions, early travelers' journals, and the work of geophysical scientists. By following such stories across three centuries, this book explores local knowledge, colonial encounters, and environmental change.Do Glaciers Listen? examines conflicting depictions of glaciers to show how natural and social histories are entangled. During late stages of the Little Ice Age, significant geophysical changes coincided with dramatic social upheaval in the Saint Elias Mountains. European visitors brought conceptions of Nature as sublime, as spiritual, or as a resource for human progress. They saw glaciers as inanimate, subject to empirical investigation and measurement. Aboriginal responses were strikingly different. From their perspectives, glaciers were sentient, animate, and quick to respond to human behaviour. In each case, experiences and ideas surrounding glaciers were incorporated into interpretations of social relations. Focusing on these contrasting views, Julie Cruikshank demonstrates how local knowledge is produced, rather than 'discovered,' through such encounters, and how oral histories conjoin social and biophysical processes. She traces how divergent views continue to weave through contemporary debates about protected areas, parks and the new World Heritage site that encompasses the area where Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory now meet.Students and scholars of Native studies and anthropology as well as readers interested in northern studies and colonial encounters will find Do Glaciers Listen? a fascinating read and a rich addition to circumpolar literature.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Historical Geography, Indigenous Peoples, Social & Cultural Anthropology, Folklore, Myths & Legends, Natural History Books, History Of Other Lands
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 37.95 USD
- Dimensions: 152x229x22.86mm
- Weight: 480g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Vancouver, Canada
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