Do Glaciers Listen?

Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, And Social Imagination

by Julie Cruikshank
language: english
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS, May of 2005 ‧
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Focusing on these contrasting views of glaciers between Aboriginal peoples and European visitors in northern Canada and Alaska, Julie Cruikshank demonstrates how local knowledge is produced, rather than discovered, through colonial encounters, and how it often conjoins social and biophysical processes.

Do Glaciers Listen?

Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, And Social Imagination

by Julie Cruikshank

Property Description
ISBN: 9780774811866
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Release Date: May of 2005
Language: English
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Format: Book
Collection: Brenda & David Mclean Canadian Studies
Categories: Books in English > Social Sciences and Humanities > Sociology
EAN: 9780774811866

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