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Creative Alaska A Ten-Year Retrospective of Support for Alaska Artists, 2004-2013
ISBN: HB: 9781602232853, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
340 pp., 27.3x27.3 cm, 232 colour plates
Alaska has long been a nurturing home for artists, with its stunning natural beauty, rich cultural life, and unique communities. In recent years, artists in Alaska have had an additional source of support: the awarding of annual grants to craftsmen,...
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£37,50
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Ciulirnerunak Yuuyaqunak/Do Not Live Without an Elder The Subsistence Way of Life in Southwest Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602232976, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2016
400 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 52 halftones, 4 maps
In October of 2010, six men who were serving on the board of the Calista Elders Council (CEC) gathered in Anchorage with CEC staff to spend three days speaking about the subsistence way of life. The men shared stories of their early years growing up...
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£30,00
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Made of Salmon Alaska Stories from the Salmon Project
ISBN: PB: 9781602232839, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates
All over the world, salmon populations are in trouble, as overfishing and habitat loss have combined to put the once-great Atlantic and Pacific Northwest runs at serious risk. Alaska, however, stands out as a rare success story: its salmon population...
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£16,50
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Anguyiim Nalliini / Time of Warring The History of Bow-and-Arrow Warfare in Southwest Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602232914, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2016
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 16 colour plates, 8 maps
This book draws on little-known oral histories from the Yup'ik people of southwest Alaska to detail a period of bow-and-arrow warfare that took place in the region between 1300 and 1800. The result of more than thirty years of research, discussion, a...
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£30,00
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More Than God Demands Politics and Influence of Christian Missions in Northwest Alaska, 1897-1918
ISBN: PB: 9781602232938, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2016
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 1 map
Near the turn of the twentieth century, the territorial government of Alaska put its support behind a project led by Christian missionaries to convert Alaska Native peoples – and, along the way, bring them into "civilized" American citizenship. Estab...
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£37,50
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Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground An Ethnography of Climate Change in Shishmaref, Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602232662, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2015
175 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 maps, 4 photos, 10 figures
With three roads and a population of just over 500 people, Shishmaref, Alaska seems like an unlikely center of the climate change debate. But the island, home to Inupiaq Eskimos who still live off subsistence harvesting, is falling into the sea, and...
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£19,00
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Dangerous Idea The Alaska Native Brotherhood and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights
ISBN: PB: 9781602232396, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2014
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones
Decades before the marches and victories of the 1960s, a group of Alaska Natives were making civil rights history. Throughout the early twentieth century, the Alaska Native Brotherhood fought for citizenship, voting rights, and education for all Alas...
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£19,00
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Caribou Herds of Northwest Alaska, 1850-2000
ISBN: PB: 9781602231795, ISBN: HB: 9781602231788, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
216 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 20 maps
In his final, major publication Ernest S".Tiger" Burch Jr. reconstructs the distribution of caribou herds in northwest Alaska using data and information from research conducted over the past several decades as well as sources that predate western sci...
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£22,50
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£34,00
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Treadwell Gold An Alaska Saga of Riches and Ruin
ISBN: PB: 9781602231184, ISBN: HB: 9781602230750, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
271 pp., 25.1x17.8 cm, 80 halftones
A century ago, Treadwell, Alaska, was a featured stop on steamship cruises, a rich, up-to-date town that was the most prominent and proud in all Alaska. Its wealth, however, was founded on the remarkably productive gold mines on Douglas Island, and w...
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£13,50
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£26,50
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Alutiit/Sugpiat A Catalog of the Collections of the Kunstkamera
ISBN: HB: 9781602231771, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2012
440 pp., 29x24 cm, 654 colour illus.
This beautifully photographed book catalogs the collection of nearly five hundred Alutiiq cultural items held by the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, or the Kunstkamera, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Gathered between 1780 and 1867...
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