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1 online resource (x, 206 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206). |
| Contents |
August -- Tulugak Lake and beyond -- Maps -- Anaktuvuk pass, you copy? -- They come in; They go out -- Picking -- The upside down season -- Fieldnotes -- Writing history from the pass -- The "new" Eskimo -- Of meat and hunger and everlasting gob stoppers -- Staying home -- Masks -- The only road that goes there the information superhighway -- Remembering Susie Paneak -- The exhibition -- Airplane! Airplaaane! -- Dispatches from the field -- Fifty years in one place -- Weekend nomads -- The things we carry -- Town -- May--north of north -- Ed's place -- Happy July fourth -- Faces of the Nunamiut. |
| Summary |
In the roadless Brooks Range Mountains of northern Alaska sits Anaktuvuk Pass, a small, tightly knit Nunamiut Eskimo village. Formerly nomadic hunters of caribou, the Nunamiut of Anaktuvuk now find their destiny tied to that of Alaska's oil-rich North Slope, their lives suddenly subject to a century's worth of innovations, from electricity and bush planes to snow machines and the Internet. Anthropologist Margaret B. Blackman has been doing summer fieldwork among the Nunamiut over a span of almost twenty years, an experience richly and movingly recounted in this book. A vivid description of the people and the life of Anaktuvuk Pass, the essays in "Upside Down" are also an absorbing mediation on the changes that Blackman herself underwent during her time there, most wrenchingly the illness of her husband, a fellow anthropologist, and the breakup of their marriage. Throughout, Blackman reflects in unexpected and enlightening ways on the work of anthropology and the perspective of an anthropologist evermore invested in the lives of her subjects. Whether commenting on the effect of this place and its people on her personal life or describing the impact of "progress" on the Nunamiut--the CB radio, weekend nomadism, tourism, the Information Superhighway--her essays offer a unique and deeply evocative picture of an at once disappearing and evolving world. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nunamiut Eskimos -- Alaska -- Anaktuvuk Pass -- History.
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Nunamiut Eskimos. |
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Alaska -- Anaktuvuk Pass. |
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History. |
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Nunamiut Eskimos -- Alaska -- Anaktuvuk Pass -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Ethnology -- Alaska -- Anaktuvuk Pass.
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Ethnology. |
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Anaktuvuk Pass (Alaska) -- History.
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Anaktuvuk Pass (Alaska) -- Social life and customs.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Blackman, Margaret B. Upside down. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2004 0803213352 (DLC) 2003013924 (OCoLC)52478510 |
| ISBN |
0803203942 (electronic book) |
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9780803203945 (electronic book) |
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1280374276 |
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9781280374272 |
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0803213352 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780803213357 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Sudoc No. |
U5001 T983 -2004 |
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