Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social ImaginationUBC Press, 2010-10-01 - 328 psl. Do Glaciers Listen? explores the conflicting depictions of glaciers to show how natural and cultural histories are objectively entangled in the Mount Saint Elias ranges. This rugged area, where Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory now meet, underwent significant geophysical change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which coincided with dramatic social upheaval resulting from European exploration and increased travel and trade among Aboriginal peoples. European visitors brought with them varying 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 oral histories, conversely, described glaciers as sentient, animate, and quick to respond to human behaviour. In each case, however, the experiences and ideas surrounding glaciers were incorporated into interpretations of social relations. Focusing on these contrasting views during the late stages of the Little Ice Age (1550-1900), Cruikshank demonstrates how local knowledge is produced, rather than discovered, through colonial encounters, and how it often conjoins social and biophysical processes. She then traces how the divergent views weave through contemporary debates about cultural meanings as well as current discussions about protected areas, parks, and the new World Heritage site. Readers interested in anthropology and Native and northern studies will find this a fascinating read and a rich addition to circumpolar literature. |
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... glacial processes. I thank the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, where I was welcomed for a sabbatical year in 2001-2; the Rare Books Room in the University of Cambridge Library; the Yukon Archives in ...
... glacial landscape during successive generations. Their experiences reinforced a vision that humans and nature mutually make and maintain the habitable world, a view now echoed by environmental historians. Glaciers appear as actors in ...
... glacial caves with swords drawn, and they mounted crosses at the edge of terminal moraines in vain attempts to halt these advances. Volcanic activity also enhanced northern hemispheric cooling. Evidence from temperate regions of North ...
... glacial ice is too pronounced and manifest to be based on any general physical reasons, and must be accounted for wholly by superstition.”42 Here, then, we have a pivotal moment in the history of encounters between residents and ...
... glacial history, background for the chapters that follow. My sources include expedition narratives written by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century North Atlantic travellers as well as oral traditions from northwestern North America. They ...
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Do Glaciers Listen?– Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social ... Julie Cruikshank Peržiūra negalima - 2005 |