By Margaret B. Blackman
Within the roadless Brooks diversity Mountains of northern Alaska sits Anaktuvuk move, a small, tightly knit Nunamiut Eskimo village. previously nomadic hunters of caribou, the Nunamiut of Anaktuvuk now locate their future tied to that of Alaska’s oil-rich North Slope, their lives unexpectedly topic to a century’s worthy of ideas, from electrical energy and bush planes to snow machines and the net. Anthropologist Margaret B. Blackman has been doing summer time fieldwork one of the Nunamiut over a span of just about 20 years, an event richly and movingly acknowledged during this booklet. A bright description of the folks and the lifetime of Anaktuvuk cross, the essays in the other way up also are an soaking up meditation at the adjustments that Blackman herself underwent in the course of her time there, so much wrenchingly the disease of her husband, a fellow anthropologist, and the breakup in their marriage. all through, Blackman displays in unforeseen and enlightening methods at the paintings of anthropology and the viewpoint of an anthropologist evermore invested within the lives of her matters. no matter if commenting at the influence of this position and its humans on her own lifestyles or describing the effect of “progress” at the Nunamiut—the CB radio, weekend nomadism, tourism, the data Superhighway—her essays supply a distinct and deeply evocative photo of an straight away disappearing and evolving international.
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I could get used to such armchair anthropology. Citizens band radios came to Anaktuvuk Pass sometime in the late 1970s, just as their popularity on the nation’s highways was peaking. 2 The village was electrified in 1976, and by early 1978 television, one phone, and a few cbs were present. The Nunamiut have always been quick to adopt new technology, and it seems that they acquired cbs as soon as they were readily available and affordable. cb radios became a village fixture unencumbered by most of the cb culture that had evolved in the lower forty-eight.
The cb reinforces this, extending the opportunities for personal contact and conversation. In the old days, Eskimo men would gather in the qarigi, a community hall of sorts, where they would build and repair sleds and hunting equipment, plan and discuss a hunt, and tell stories and sing songs. Women and children would sometimes join them there. Today the people come together through the cb in an electronic qarigi. Up until the 1950s, the Nunamiut moved across the land in small groups, each unaware of the exact whereabouts of any other at a given time.
They’re too busy out on the land for their own purposes, though there’s no lack of talk about the tourist dollars that such efforts might bring in. 0pt PgVar ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX [37], (22) Heavy steps on the arctic steel grate announce Steve Wells. ” he booms. The tourists respond enthusiastically as they file out of the museum and back onto their planks. Last stop, the Nunamiut “Corp” store, where they can buy the only postcard in town, a winter scene at Chandler Lake some thirty-five miles away.
