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Poetry

Rabbits Could Sing Poems

Thomas Amber Flora

ISBN: PB: 9781602231597, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2012
67 pp., 25x15 cm

The poems included in "The Rabbits Could Sing" delve farther into territory that Amber Flora Thomas visited in her prize-winning book "Eye of Water", showing even more clearly how "the seam has been pulled so far open on the past" that "the dress wil...

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Anthropology

Indigenous Peoples and Languages of Alaska New Edition

Krauss Michael, Holton Gary, Kerr Jim, Thor West Colin

ISBN: PB: 9781555001131, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2012
720 pp., 49x33 cm

This exquisitely illustrated and extensive map charts the peoples and languages of Alaska natives. The author, who founded the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and directed it until 2000, was responsible for assembl...

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Anthropology

Archaeology & Paleontology

Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries

Moss Madonna L., Cannon Aubrey

ISBN: PB: 9781602231467, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2012
312 pp., 25.5x18 cm

For thousands of years, fisheries were crucial to the sustenance of the First Peoples of the Pacific Coast. Yet human impact has left us with a woefully incomplete understanding of their histories prior to the industrial era. Covering Alaska, British...

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Photography

My Wrangell Mountains

Homberger Ruedi

ISBN: HB: 9781602231368, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2012
225 pp., 23x30.5 cm, 350 colour illus.

High atop cascading waterfalls and deep within the lush green depths of the valleys, Swiss photographer Ruedi Homberger has for more than twenty years captured in photographs the majestic beauty of eastern Alaska's Wrangell Mountain range. In additio...

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Culture Studies

Ecology

North by 2020 Perspectives on Alaska's Changing Social-Ecological Systems

Lovecraft Amy Lauren, Eicken Hajo

ISBN: PB: 9781602231429, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2011
784 pp., 25.5x18 cm, colour illus.

Originating from a series of workshops held at the Alaska Forum of the Fourth International Polar Year, this interdisciplinary volume addresses a host of current concerns regarding the ecology and rapid transformation of the arctic. Concentrating on...

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Anthropology

Gwich'in Athabascan Implements History, Manufacture, and Usage According to Reverend David Salmon

O'Brien Thomas A.

ISBN: PB: 9781602231443, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2011
202 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 73 halftones, 43 line illus.

The most detailed and well-illustrated study of material culture for any northern Athabascan language group to date, "Gwich'in Athabascan Implements" reproduces pre- and early post-contact tools that are historically important to the Athabaskan peopl...

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Poetry

Ice Floe II International Poetry of the Far North

Gramse Shannon, Kirk Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781602231481, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2011
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The long-awaited second volume of the newly revived "Ice Floe" series, "Ice Floe II" features new and exciting works of poetry from a vibrant and diverse group of writers from Alaska, Canada, Russia, Sweden, Iceland, and beyond. All work is presented...

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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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Photography

Anthropology

Yupiit Yuraryarait Yup'ik Ways of Dancing

Barker James H., Fienup-Riordan Ann, Arevgaq John Theresa

ISBN: PB: 9781602231306, ISBN: HB + DVD: 9781602230828, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2011
237 pp., 25.5x25.5 cm, 100 halftones

Far more than just a dance, the dynamic choreography of the Yup'ik provides an illuminating window into the morality, social organization, and colonial history of this indigenous people. In "Yupiit Yurayarait", anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan begin...

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Other

Comparative Eskimo Dictionary With Aleut Cognates (Second Edition)

Fortescue Michael, Jacobson Steven, Kaplan Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9781555001094, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2011
720 pp., 28x21.5 cm

An updated and comprehensive reference to the Aleut-Eskimo languages spoken from the northeastern tip of Siberia all the way east to Greenland, this easy-to-use volume groups related words from the modern Eskimo languages in comparative sets with the...

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