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Anthropology

Shem Pete's Alaska The Territory of the Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina

Kari James, Fall James A.

ISBN: PB: 9781602233065, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2017
432 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 27 colour plates, 324 halftones, 66 maps

Shem Pete (1896-1989), a colorful and brilliant raconteur from Susitna Station, Alaska, left a rich legacy of knowledge about the Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina world. Shem was one of the most versatile storytellers and historians in twentieth century Ala...

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Anthropology

Travel

Ahtna Travel Narratives A Demonstration of Shared Geographic Knowledge among Alaska Athabascans

Kari James

ISBN: PB + CD: 9781555001056, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2011
143 pp., 27x22 cm, 22 maps, 23 halftones

Among the world's foremost pedestrian foragers, the Ahtna tribe possesses a profound system of geographic knowledge that has facilitated travel and spatial cognition in Ahtna and other Athabascan languages. Shedding light on a number of precise lands...

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