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MARC recordAhtna travel narratives: a demonstration of shared geographic knowledge among Alaska Athabascans / Kari James, ed.
| Title: | Ahtna travel narratives: a demonstration of shared geographic knowledge among Alaska Athabascans / Kari James, ed. |
| Author(s): | James, Kari, |
| Date: | 2010. |
| Publisher: | Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Native Language Center |
| Abstract: | Presents edited travel narratives by five Ahtna experts, describing walking tours of nearly 1,200 miles of traditional routes and trails in Ahtna language area. Narratives demonstrate precise imagery and landscape classification of Ahtna place names and riverine directionals, profound geographic knowledge system that has underpinned travel and spatial cognition in Ahtna and other Alaskan Athabascan languages. |
| Keywords: | 39 -- Ethnography: Indians. Athapaskan. 113/119 -- Attitudes to nature. 398 -- Native peoples, folk beliefs and tales. 639 -- Hunting, fishing and associated activities. 811.811 -- Athapaskan-Eyak languages. 81'373.21 -- Place names. Toponymy. T -- Social anthropology and ethnography. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*49) -- Alaska. |
| Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*49) : 39(=811) : 113/119[2010] |
| ISBN: | 9781555001056 |
| SPRI record no.: | 195272 |
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