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Tanana and Chandalar

  • The Alaska Field Journals of Robert A. McKennan
  • edited by Craig Mishler and William E. Simeone
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Imprint: University of Alaska Press
University Press of Colorado - Tanana and Chandalar
  • Hardcover Price: $50.00

"A vivid picture of a dedicated ethnographer. . . . highly recommended."
—Edward Hosley, Arctic

 

Robert A. McKennan (1903-1982) spent 1929 to 1933 in several remote Native villages where he documented Interior Athabaskan life. His writings are an extraordinary window onto Athabaskan culture before World War II and form a significant part of anthropology's humanistic tradition.

Editors Mishler and Simeone have annotated McKennan's journals and provided a wealth of contextual material in two substantive introductory chapters. Readers will appreciate this rare perspective on a vanishing way of life.

  • Craig Mishler

    William E. Simeone

    William E. Simeone is an anthropologist who has traveled and worked in Tanacross and the upper Tanana for fifty years. He has also worked for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the National Park Service, AEcom, the Chickaloon Tribal Council, the Cheesh’ na Tribal Council, and Ahtna Incorporated. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of four books.
  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-889963-77-8
  • Publication Month: February
  • Publication Year: 2006
  • Pages: 304
  • Discount Type: Trade
  • ECommerce Code: 9781889963778
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