Upside Down Seasons among the Nunamiut First Edition by Margaret Blackman ISBN 978-0803213357 0803213352

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ISBN 10:    0803213352

ISBN 13: 978-0803213357

Author:  Margaret B. Blackman

In the roadless Brooks Range Mountains of northern Alaska sits Anaktuvuk Pass, a small, tightly knit Nunamiut Eskimo village. Formerly nomadic hunters of caribou, the Nunamiut of Anaktuvuk now find their destiny tied to that of Alaska’s oil-rich North Slope, their lives suddenly subject to a century’s worth of innovations, from electricity and bush planes to snow machines and the Internet. Anthropologist Margaret B. Blackman has been doing summer fieldwork among the Nunamiut over a span of almost twenty years, an experience richly and movingly recounted in this book.
A vivid description of the people and the life of Anaktuvuk Pass, the essays in Upside Down are also an absorbing meditation on the changes that Blackman herself underwent during her time there, most wrenchingly the illness of her husband, a fellow anthropologist, and the breakup of their marriage. Throughout, Blackman reflects in unexpected and enlightening ways on the work of anthropology and the perspective of an anthropologist evermore invested in the lives of her subjects. Whether commenting on the effect of this place and its people on her personal life or describing the impact of “progress” on the Nunamiut—the CB radio, weekend nomadism, tourism, the Information Superhighway—her essays offer a unique and deeply evocative picture of an at once disappearing and evolving world.

Table of contents: 

1. List of Illustrations

2. Acknowledgments

3. Introduction

4. August

5. Tulugak Lake and Beyond

6. Maps

7. Anaktuvuk Pass, You Copy?

8. They Come In; They Go Out

9. Picking

10. The Upside Down Season

11. Fieldnotes

12. Writing History from the Pass

13. The “New” Eskimo

14. Of Meat and Hunger and Everlasting Gob Stoppers

15. Staying Home

16. Masks

17. The Only Road That Goes There

18. Is the Information Superhighway

19. Remembering Susie Paneak

20. The Exhibition

21. Airplane! Airplaaane!

22. Dispatches from the Field

23. Fifty Years in One Place

24. Weekend Nomads

25. The Things We Carry

26. Town

27. May–North of North

28. Ed’s Place

29. Happy July Fourth

30. Faces of the Nunamiut

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