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Do Glaciers Listen? : Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination by Cruikshank, Julie. is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Do Glaciers Listen? : Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination about?
Focusing on the contrasting views of nature in indigenous oral traditions, early travellers' journals, and the work of geophysical scientists during the late stages of the Little Ice Age (1550-1900), Cruikshank demonstrates how local knowledge is produced, rather than-discovered, through colonial encounters, and how it often conjoins with social and biophysical processes. She then traces the divergent views as they continue to weave through contemporary debates about cultural meanings as well as
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Cruikshank, Julie.
- Publisher
- UBC Press ; University of Washington Press, 2005.
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780774811866
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Anthropology, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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