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Northern Athabascan Survival: Women, Community, and the Future - Couverture rigide

Fast, Phyllis A.

 
9780803220171: Northern Athabascan Survival: Women, Community, and the Future
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0803220170 ISBN 13 : 9780803220171
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2002

Synopsis

The Northern Athabascan peoples of the Alaskan interior and the Yukon have survived centuries of contact and attempted domination by outsiders. Their lives today are rich in meaning and tradition yet are also complicated by numerous challenges such as poverty, alcoholism, domestic violence, suicide, and troubled leadership.

Combining scholarly analysis, first-person accounts, and her own experiences and insights as a Koyukon Athabascan artist and anthropologist, Phyllis Ann Fast illuminates the modern Athabascan world. Her conversations with Athabascan women offer revealing glimpses of their personal lives and a probing assessment of their professional opportunities and limitations. Also showcased is the crucial but ambiguous role of Athabascan leaders, who are needed to champion reform and social healing but are often undermined by conflicting notions of decision making, personhood, and leadership in Athabascan society.

A troubling observation of this study is the vast extent to which addiction--manifested as both substance abuse and economic dependency--pervades Northern Athabascan society and threatens to curtail its cohesion and aspirations. But Northern Athabascans are far from victims. As Fast discovers, Northern Athabascan men and women are well aware of these widespread social problems, and many have undertaken initiatives to deal with and heal them. Rigorous and compassionate, Northern Athabascan Survival provides an uncompromising view of a remarkable and troubled world.

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À propos de l'auteur

Phyllis Ann Fast is a Koyukon Athabascan artist and a professor in the Native studies department at the University of Alaska.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803220170
ISBN 13 
9780803220171
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
305
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Personne responsable
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