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Do Glaciers Listen?
Language: en
Pages: 327
Authors: Julie Cruikshank
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-01 - Publisher: UBC Press

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Do Glaciers Listen? explores the conflicting depictions of glaciers to show how natural and cultural histories are objectively entangled in the Mount Saint Elia
Do Glaciers Listen?
Language: en
Pages: 326
Authors: Julie Cruikshank
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-10 - Publisher: UBC Press

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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 ho
Do Glaciers Listen?
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Julie Cruikshank
Categories: Athapascan Indians
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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The glaciers creep Like snakes that watch their prey, from their far fountains, Slow rolling on. - Percy Shelley, "Mont Blanc," 1816 Glaciers in America's far n
The Social Life of Stories
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Julie Cruikshank
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-08 - Publisher: UBC Press

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In this illuminating and theoretically sophisticated study of indigenous oral narratives, Julie Cruikshank moves beyond the text to explore the social power and
Under the Glacier
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Halldor Laxness
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-18 - Publisher: Vintage

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Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness’s Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset,