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Alaska Native Policy in the Twentieth Century

Alaska Native Policy in the Twentieth Century

This book explores the application of federal Indian policy to Alaska Natives in the 20th century a process driven by the federal government's desire to acquire Indian land. Twentieth century Indian policy as applied in Alaska has oscillated between encouraging the privatization of land and assimilation of Native Alaskans into the dominant society and allowing for Native autonomy and self-government. The Alaska Reorganization Act of 1936 better known as the Alaska Native New Deal promoted Native self-government through constitutions and native self-sufficiency through corporations within geographic limits of designated reservations. In Alaska the federal government's termination policy extended state jurisdiction over Native peoples after World War Two. A new policy of self-determination was initiated by the passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. With this act 40 million acres were conveyed to newly created Native corporations. Alaska Natives would achieve self-determination by participation in corporate decisions. This history of the legislation and implementation of federal Indian policy in Alaska explores the tensions and reversals expressed through successive legislative acts and focuses upon the implications of this policy for Native Alaskans. | Alaska Native Policy in the Twentieth Century

GBP 39.99
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The Permafrost Environment

The Permafrost Environment

Originally published in 1986 The Permafrost Environment examines how the search for oil gas and minerals in the arctic region instigated new and vitally important needs to understand the permafrost environment. The construction of roads airfields buildings and pipelines in this inhospitable environment has posed enormous problems for engineers and geologists. This book is a comprehensive review of the nature of the permafrost environment and its utilization. It looks at environmental processes and their effects and examines the management problems which result. It provides a detailed look at how normal procedures for construction etc. need to be modified to cope with the special conditions and it gives examples from throughout the arctic region including Canada Siberia Alaska Greenland and Northern Scandinavia.

GBP 29.99
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Active Landscape Photography Diverse Practices

Active Landscape Photography Diverse Practices

Diverse Practices the third book in the Active Landscape Photography series presents a set of unique photographic examples for site-specific investigations of landscape places. Contributed by authors across academia practice and photography each chapter serves as a rigorous discussion about photographic methods for the landscape and their underlying concepts. Chapters also serve as unique case studies about specific projects places and landscape issues. Project sites include the Miller Garden Olana XX Miller Prize and the Philando Castile Peace Garden. Landscape places discussed include the archeological landscapes of North Peru watery littoral zones the remote White Pass in Alaska Sau Paulo and New York City’s Chinatown. Photographic image-making approaches include the use of lidar repeat photography collage mapping remote image capture portraiture image mining of internet sources visual impact assessment cameraless photography transect walking and interviewing. These diverse practices demonstrate how photography when utilized through a set of specific critical methods becomes a rich process for investigating the landscape. Exploring this concept in relationship to specific contemporary sties and landscape issues reveals the intricacy and subtlety that exists when photography is used actively. Practitioners academics students and researchers will be inspired by the underlying concepts of these examples and come away with a better understanding about how to create their own rigorous photographic practices. | Active Landscape Photography Diverse Practices

GBP 32.99
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Reimagining Human-Animal Relations in the Circumpolar North

Reimagining Human-Animal Relations in the Circumpolar North

This volume provides fresh insight into northern human–animal relations and illustrates the breadth and practical utility of archaeological human–animal studies. It surveys recent archaeological research in northern North America and Eurasia that frames human–animal relations as not merely economically exploitative but often socially complex and deeply meaningful and attuned to the intelligence and agency of nonhuman prey and domesticates. The case studies sample a wide swath of the circumpolar region from Alaska Nunavut and Greenland to northern Fennoscandia and western Siberia and span sites finds and scenarios ranging in age from the Mesolithic to the twenty-first century. Many taxa on which northern lives hinged figure in these analyses including large marine mammals polar bear reindeer marine fish and birds and are variously approached from relational multispecies semiotic osteobiographical and political economic perspectives. Animals themselves are represented by osteological remains harvesting gear and depictions of animal bodies that include zoomorphic figurines petroglyphs ornamentation and intricate portrayals of human–animal harvesting encounters. Far from settling the problem of how archaeologists should approach northern human–animal relations these chapters reveal the irreducible complexity of northern worlds and highlight the diversity of human and nonhuman animal lives. This book will be of particular interest to northern archaeologists and zooarchaeologists and all those interested in the possibilities of a multispecies approach to the archaeological record. | Reimagining Human-Animal Relations in the Circumpolar North

GBP 130.00
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