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North: Finding Place in Alaska
Contributor(s): Decker, Julie (Editor)
ISBN: 0295741848     ISBN-13: 9780295741840
Publisher: University of Washington Press
OUR PRICE:   $35.96  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: November 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Travel | United States - West - Pacific (ak, Ca, Hi, Or, Wa)
- History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy)
- Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945)
Dewey: 979.8
LCCN: 2016047760
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 8.7" W x 9.9" (2.80 lbs) 304 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
 
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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.