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Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination (Brenda and David McLean Canadian Studies) by Julie Cruikshank is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination (Brenda and David McLean Canadian Studies) about?
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 northwest figure prominently in indigenous oral traditions, early travelers’ journals, and the work of geophysical scientists. By following such stories across three centuries, this book explores local knowledge, colonial encounters, and environmental change. Do Glaciers Listen? examines conflicting depictions of glaciers to show how natur
Who reads Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination (Brenda and David McLean Canadian Studies)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Julie Cruikshank
- Publisher
- UBC Press ; University of Washington Press
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780774811866
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Anthropology, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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