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Tanana and Chandalar: The Alaska Field Journals of Robert A. McKennan
by Craig Mishler and William E. Simeone, Editors

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Tanana and Chandalar: The Alaska Field Journals of Robert A. McKennan 
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  One of Alaska’s premier ethnographers, Robert A. McKennan (1903–1982) spent the years between 1929 and 1933 in several remote Native villages where he documented Interior Athabaskan life in a series of books and journals. McKennan’s journals are an extraordinary window onto Athabaskan culture before it was radically transformed by social changes following World War II. While McKennan’s two major ethnographies—on the Tanana and the Gwich’in (Kutchin)—represent the scientific aspects of his work, his voluminous letters and journals form an equally significant part of anthropology’s humanistic tradition.

McKennan chronicles both his day-to-day struggles to survive in the Alaska wilderness as well as his frustrations as an anthropologist. He recorded his field methods and the difficulties he encountered in pursuing his research. The result is a personal memoir of a dedicated researcher and sensitive observer.

Editors Mishler and Simeone have annotated McKennan’s journals and provided a wealth of contextual material in two substantive introductory chapters. Historic photographs, maps, and a bibliography of McKennan’s publications honor his legacy and highlight his lasting contributions to Alaska Native history and anthropology.

Anthropologists and historians of the North will find McKennan’s journals an invaluable resource, while readers of Alaskana will appreciate a rare perspective on a vanishing way of life.

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Weight:0.64 kg
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ISBN-10:155238201X
ISBN-13/EAN:9781552382011
Author:Craig Mishler and William E. Simeone, Editors
Publisher:University of Calgary Press
Calgary
Publication Date:2006
Pages:266 pp
Size/Dimensions:6 x 9
Binding:Hardcover

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