Ahtna Travel Narratives: A Demonstration of Shared Geographic Knowledge Among Alaska Athabascans [With CD (Audio)]

by Katie John, Adam Sanford, Frank Stickwan, et al.

Among the world's foremost pedestrian foragers, the Ahtna tribe possesses a profound system of geographic knowledge that has facilitated travel and spatial cognition in Ahtna and other Athabascan languages. Shedding light on a number of precise landscape classifications, including Ahtna place names and river directionals, these indigenous travel narratives represent walking tours comprising more than one thousand miles of traditional routes and trails...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155500105X
• ISBN13: 9781555001056
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: University of Alaska Press
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.3"