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 "e,progress"e, 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.
Zusammenfassung
In 1969 Kim Janik was a young man shining with promise-handsome, brilliant, studying at Harvard on a physics scholarship-and he was in love with Laurie Alberts, a troubled teenager from a wealthy Boston suburb. Twenty-five years later, when Kim's naked and decomposing body was discovered on the Wyoming prairie, one photograph-that of the Harvard junior and the seventeen-year-old-was found in his abandoned car. This book is Alberts's attempt to piece together what happened in between. An accomplished novelist, Alberts brings to her task the searching intelligence, clear-eyed candor, and narrative grace that have marked her previous books. She painstakingly recreates her turbulent relationship with Kim and traces the twisted course that led to his eventual ruin. A story of obsessive love, societal upheaval, and the warring impulses of survival and self-destruction, Fault Line moves beyond the limits of the traditional memoir into the realms of biography and literary journalism. With interviews and letters, Alberts augments her lucid reflections in an effort to comprehend Kim's life and death and her place in both. The result is a singular work that melds the inner and outer worlds with a seamless intensity.
Zusammenfassung
In 1969 Kim Janik was a young man shining with promise-handsome, brilliant, studying at Harvard on a physics scholarship-and he was in love with Laurie Alberts, a troubled teenager from a wealthy Boston suburb. Twenty-five years later, when Kim's naked and decomposing body was discovered on the Wyoming prairie, one photograph-that of the Harvard junior and the seventeen-year-old-was found in his abandoned car. This book is Alberts's attempt to piece together what happened in between. An accomplished novelist, Alberts brings to her task the searching intelligence, clear-eyed candor, and narrative grace that have marked her previous books. She painstakingly recreates her turbulent relationship with Kim and traces the twisted course that led to his eventual ruin. A story of obsessive love, societal upheaval, and the warring impulses of survival and self-destruction, Fault Line moves beyond the limits of the traditional memoir into the realms of biography and literary journalism. With interviews and letters, Alberts augments her lucid reflections in an effort to comprehend Kim's life and death and her place in both. The result is a singular work that melds the inner and outer worlds with a seamless intensity.
Titel
Upside Down
Untertitel
Seasons among the Nunamiut
Autor
EAN
9780803203945
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PDF
Hersteller
Veröffentlichung
01.03.2004
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
2.53 MB
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