Hardback

160 Pages

$44.95 USD

Format	Hardback
Published	October 25, 2016
ISBN-13	9780295999333
Language	English
Pages	160
Illustrations	100 illus.
Height	8.00 Inches (US)
Width	10.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	1.85 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$44.95 USD, £36.00 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference

Menadelook

Name: Menadelook
Price: 44.95 USD
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Author: Eileen Norbert
ISBN: 9780295999333

An Inupiat Teacher's Photographs of Alaska Village Life, 1907-1932

By Eileen Norbert

University of Washington Press

Menadelook showcases nearly one hundred photographs taken by the Inupiat photographer Charles Menadelook that document life in Wales in the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia, in the early 1900s. Photographs of Inupiat life in the early twentieth century are rare, and photographs taken by an indigenous person are nearly nonexistent. These photographs provide a unique view into the Inupiat world during the early twentieth century and give both a pictorial and Native perspective on Inupiat traditions and historical events.

About the Author

Charles Menadelook, an Inupiat, was born in Wales, Alaska, in 1892. One of the first Alaskan Natives to become a teacher, he taught in Diomede, Shishmaref, Shaktoolik, Kotzebue, Noatak, Sinuk, Nome, Gambell, and Unalaska. The book is edited by Menadelook's granddaughter, Eileen Norbert, who first started collecting these photographs as a senior in anthropology at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Norbert realized the value of this historic collection, and for more than thirty years she meticulously researched and recorded the stories behind the photographs.

Reviews

"The story of Menadelook's life is fascinating and well told and would be a worthy book even without the photographs, but to have the pictures as well makes this volume a treasure. . . . Much like the Menadelook we meet in these pages, this book is modest on the surface, but its contribution to Alaska is profound. It presents a world that would be completely vanished but for the presence of one man and his camera."—David A. James, Alaska Dispatch News

Publisher	University of Washington Press
BISAC Subject Headings	HISTORY / Native American (72 Titles) PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical (36 Titles) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies (165 Titles)

Format	Hardback
Published	October 25, 2016
ISBN-13	9780295999333
Language	English
Pages	160
Illustrations	100 illus.
Height	8.00 Inches (US)
Width	10.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	1.85 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$44.95 USD, £36.00 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference