Zusatztext From CHOICE Prepared to accompany the Smithsonian exhibition titled Living Our Cultures! Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska! which will be on display at the Anchorage Museum until at least 2017! this handsomely illustrated volume presents illustrations and descriptions of one-third of the approximately 600 objects on display from at least 20 different cultural groups within Alaska. Selected from collections at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and National Museum of the American Indian! many of these objects were obtained by the diverse expeditions that began to collect Native artifacts from Alaska in the mid-19th century. Perspective on these objects is provided not only by a succinct introduction to Alaska! its landscape! history! culture! and peoples! but also by having Native representatives of the First Peoples comment on the fundamental features of their lives and what was essential in their specific culture. Including these essays by Alaskan Natives is a particularly engaging method for providing their insights into and perspectives on their lives and the changes that are overwhelming their cultures. The work is enhanced as well by numerous historical! period! and contemporary photographs and illustrations of the lives of the distinct cultural communities within Alaska. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates! general readers! and professionals/practitioners. -- P. D. Thomas! emeritus! Wichita State University " Living Our Cultures: Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska is one of the finest recent publications on Native American art and culture. It is gorgeous! interesting! educational! and a model for how established major museums can work successfully with originating communities to create an exhibition and a catalog that replaces thetroubled history of museums and Native people with a celebration of collaboration and cultural vitality."-- Museum Anthropology Review "The power! creativity! and functionality of Indigenous societies is defined beautifully in this book."-- American Indian Quarterly Richly illustrated and beautifully written! this book embraces Alaska Native art and design masterworks with insight from Alaska Native elders! artists! and scholars. It is a communal welcome! an acknowledgment of the spiritual and social meaning of traditional objects and their importance to Alaskans' lives today and to our future.Fran Ulmer! Chancellor! University of Alaska Anchorage Likoodzí (fantastic) yaa x'úx' (this book). Tlingit is my first language! so these were the words in my mind. Haa Shaagoon aya haa eet x'eiwatán it is as if our Ancestors have spoken to us. When community experts viewed these objects for the first time! the sacret objects awakened in them the ancestors' spirits.Elaine Chewshaa Abraham! Chairperson of the Board! Alaska Native Science Commission. Living Our Cultures! Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska is a fine example of the new collaborative work that brings together Native Americans and anthropologists as equal partners. One learns so much about Alaska Native lives! beliefs! and values.Sergei Kan! Professor of Anthropology and Native American Studies! Dartmouth College Informationen zum Autor Aron L. Crowell is an anthropologist who works with indigenous communities of the north in the fields of cultural research, archaeology, oral history, and collaborative heritage. As Alaska Director for the Smithsonian's Arctic Studies Center, he has curated or co-led major exhibitions including Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People , Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska , and Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait . Crowell lives in Anchorage, Alaska. Klappentext "Companion volume to the e...

From CHOICE

Prepared to accompany the Smithsonian exhibition titled Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska, which will be on display at the Anchorage Museum until at least 2017, this handsomely illustrated volume presents illustrations and descriptions of one-third of the approximately 600 objects on display from at least 20 different cultural groups within Alaska. Selected from collections at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and National Museum of the American Indian, many of these objects were obtained by the diverse expeditions that began to collect Native artifacts from Alaska in the mid-19th century. Perspective on these objects is provided not only by a succinct introduction to Alaska, its landscape, history, culture, and peoples, but also by having Native representatives of the First Peoples comment on the fundamental features of their lives and what was essential in their specific culture. Including these essays by Alaskan Natives is a particularly engaging method for providing their insights into and perspectives on their lives and the changes that are overwhelming their cultures. The work is enhanced as well by numerous historical, period, and contemporary photographs and illustrations of the lives of the distinct cultural communities within Alaska. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates, general readers, and professionals/practitioners. -- P. D. Thomas, emeritus, Wichita State University "Living Our Cultures: Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska is one of the finest recent publications on Native American art and culture. It is gorgeous, interesting, educational, and a model for how established major museums can work successfully with originating communities to create an exhibition and a catalog that replaces thetroubled history of museums and Native people with a celebration of collaboration and cultural vitality."--*Museum Anthropology Review

"The power, creativity, and functionality of Indigenous societies is defined beautifully in this book."--*American Indian Quarterly

*“Richly illustrated and beautifully written, this book embraces Alaska Native art and design masterworks with insight from Alaska Native elders, artists, and scholars. It is a communal welcome, an acknowledgment of the spiritual and social meaning of traditional objects and their importance to Alaskans' lives today and to our future.”—Fran Ulmer, Chancellor, University of Alaska Anchorage

“Likoodzí (fantastic) yaa x’úx’ (this book). Tlingit is my first language, so these were the words in my mind. Haa Shaagoon aya haa eet x’eiwatán—it is as if our Ancestors have spoken to us. When community experts viewed these objects for the first time, the sacret objects awakened in them the ancestors' spirits.”—Elaine Chewshaa Abraham, Chairperson of the Board, Alaska Native Science Commission.

“Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska is a fine example of the new collaborative work that brings together Native Americans and anthropologists as equal partners. One learns so much about Alaska Native lives, beliefs, and values.”—Sergei Kan, Professor of Anthropology and Native American Studies, Dartmouth College*

Autorentext
Aron L. Crowell is an anthropologist who works with indigenous communities of the north in the fields of cultural research, archaeology, oral history, and collaborative heritage. As Alaska Director for the Smithsonian's Arctic Studies Center, he has curated or co-led major exhibitions including Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People, Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska, and Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait. Crowell lives in Anchorage, Alaska.

Klappentext

"Companion volume to the exhibition of the same name opening at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, May 2010"--T.p. verso.

Zusammenfassung
*Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Her…