Nature

Do Glaciers Listen?

Julie Cruikshank 2007-10

Publisher : UBC Press

ISBN-13 : 0774851406

Page : 326 pages

Rating : 4.5/5 from 406 voters

Focusing on these contrasting views of glaciers between Aboriginal peoples and European visitors in northern Canada and Alaska, Julie Cruikshank demonstrates how local knowledge is produced, rather than discovered, through colonial encounters, and how it often conjoins social and biophysical processes.

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