Browsing by Subject "Alaska"

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    In Alaska, it's always been Denali
    (The Conversation, 2015-09-04) Cusack-McVeigh, Holly
    For millennia, the Koyukon Athabascan have called the 20,000-foot mountain “the tall one.”
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    In Alaska, it’s always been Denali
    (The Conversation US, Inc., 2015-09-04) Cusack-McVeigh, Holly; Anthropology, School of Liberal Arts
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    Learning to Listen: Community Collaboration in an Alaska Native Village
    (Collaborative Anthropologies, 2016) Cusack-McVeigh, Holly
    Eight anthropology and museum studies graduate and undergraduate students from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, who were participating in a summer field school, had traveled some four thousand miles to the Sugpiaq/Alutiiq coastal village of Nanwalek, Alaska, to participate in a three-week-long community-based collaborative project. His encouragement to go with the flow in an unfamiliar cultural setting could never match their experience of uncertainty. After a while and much to their relief, they were greeted at the airport by their hosts -- only to learn that the trail up the mountain to their cabins had been inaccessible all week due to melting snow in the mountains and the resultant mud. Before leaving Indianapolis he had met with the students to give them a brief introduction to the culture and history of the region. Having previously worked in the community on multiple environmental and cultural heritage projects with several different families and individual community members, he had already established rapport.
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    Preface. My First Day in Hooper: A Cautionary Tale for the Anthropologist
    (University of Utah Press, 2017) Cusack-McVeigh, Holly
    Grounded in existing understandings of Yup’ik cosmology and worldview, this work is the first to look at how a Yup’ik community uses stories of place in social life. On the Bering coast of southwest Alaska, Cusack-McVeigh accompanied storytellers during their daily activities. Hearing many narratives repeatedly over a span of years, she came to understand how stories reflected interactions of people and places. For the Yup’ik people, places are also social actors that react to human actions and emotions. Stories tell how people learn about each other through encounters on the land, and thereby places also learn about people. Places comment on human behavior through the land's responses to specific actions. Stories variously reveal ideas about human associations and relationships between humans and nonhuman beings. Pointing to a systematic correlation between places and narrative elements that has not been previously explored, this volume makes a unique contribution to the literature on place. Winner of the Brian McConnell Book Award from the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research.