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North

Finding Place in Alaska
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Alaska is part of an international circumpolar North, which makes the United States an Arctic nation. Alaska is a place of Indigenous ingenuity and adaptation, a place where environmental extremes challenge the ways of living. In its more recent history, Alaska has been a place of resources and influx-a land known best for what it provides. This frontier persona, with its sourdoughs and prospectors, has not been easily shed, but Alaska today is pivotal because it represents America's North and a complex and changing Arctic. North: Finding Place in Alaska explores the state's various facets through exhibitions and artifacts at the Anchorage Museum and the words of a diverse selection of writers, curators, historians, anthropologists, and artists. From romantic landscapes by Rockwell Kent and Thomas Hill, to the art and spirituality of Alaska's Native peoples represented by a bentwood feast dish and a uniquely carved hook for catching halibut, this collection examines connections throughout the circumpolar North. No longer as remote as once thought, Alaska serves as a narrative for our future.
Julie Decker is director of the Anchorage Museum. The other contributors to the volume are Kirsten J. Anderson, Alan Boraas, Michael Brubaker, David Holthouse, Priscilla Naungagiaq Hensley Holthouse (Inupiaq), Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi (Alutiiq), Mara Kimmel, Aaron Leggett, John Pearce, Sandra Talbot, and Walter Van Horn.
Introduction / Julie Decker 1. The Romantic Landscape / Julie Decker 2. Materials of Place / Alan Boraas 3. Culture and Continuity / Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi 4. The Technology of Adaptation / Walter Van Horn 5. The Northerner / Priscilla Naungagio Hensley Holthouse 6. Place of Periphery / Kirsten J. Anderson 7. Just North of Wild / Julie Decker 8. Cold as Hell / David Holthouse 9. Environment and Science / John Pearce and Sandra Talbot 10. Polar Pop / Aaron Leggett 11. Through the Lens / Julie Decker 12. The Art of Environment / Julie Decker 13. The New Frontier in the Last Frontier / Mara Kimmel and Michael Brubaker Contributors
North: An Anthology of Place explores the various facets of Alaska through the lenses of exhibitions and artifacts at the Anchorage Museum and the words of a diverse selection of writers, curators, historians, anthropologists, and artists.
"North isn't a comprehensive book about the entirety of Alaska, but it might be the most inclusive one yet." - David James (Daily News-Miner)
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