Whale Snow: Iñupiat, Climate Change, and Multispecies Resilience in Arctic Alaska

by Chie Sakakibara

Book Overview

As a mythical creature, the whale has been responsible for many transformations in the world. It is an enchanting being that humans have long felt a connection to. In the contemporary environmental imagination, whales are charismatic megafauna feeding our environmentalism and aspirations for a better and more sustainable future.

Using multispecies ethnography, Whale Snow explores how everyday the relatedness of the I upiat of Arctic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816529612
• ISBN13: 9780816529612
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"