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2 Table of Contents 1 New Books 6 New in Paperback 8 Distributed Titles 12 Popular Backlist 14 Bestsellers 16 Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 17 Other University of Alaska Publications 20 Digital Books Ordering Information (back page) Our front cover image is from one of the season s new titles, I Think Again of Those Ancient Chinese Poets by Tom Sexton. A Note to Our Readers Tracing its origins to 1927, the University of Alaska Press has published exceptional scholarly and general interest books about the history, cultures, languages, literature, environment, and natural resources of the state and circumpolar North. UA Press is one of the vital ways in which the University of Alaska serves the people of Alaska and northern regions of the world. As a nonprofit publisher, UA Press depends on the support of readers and friends like you. By purchasing our books or making a taxdeductible gift to UA Press, you help to ensure that we will continue to extend the reach of important ideas and excite many more passionate readers. For additional information on any title listed in this catalog or on how you can help support UA Press, please call, write, or visit our website. Many thanks. We look forward to hearing from you. University of Alaska Press P.O. Box Fairbanks, AK toll-free in U.S. and Canada: phone: fax: fypress@uaf.edu website: Staff Joan Braddock, Director jfbraddock@alaska.edu Amy Simpson, Assistant to the Director amy.simpson@alaska.edu Elisabeth Dabney, Acquisitions Editor & Marketing Manager e.dabney@alaska.edu Sue Mitchell, Production Editor sue.mitchell@alaska.edu Laura Walker, Sales & Distribution Coordinator laura.walker@alaska.edu Dawn Montano, Marketing Assistant dawn.montano@alaska.edu Authors: Please follow the submission guidelines online at

3 N E W BOOKS Khanty, People of the Taiga Surviving the Twentieth Century Andrew Wiget and Olga Balalaeva Drawing on nearly twenty years of fieldwork, as well as ethnohistory, politics, and economics, this volume takes a close look at changes in the lives of the indigenous Siberian Khanty people and draws crucial connections between those changes and the social, cultural, and political transformation that swept Russia during the transition to democracy. Delving deeply into the history of the Khanty who were almost completely isolated prior to the Russian revolution the authors show how the customs, traditions, and knowledge of indigenous people interact with and are threatened by events in the larger world. anthropology may paperback $ x 9, 327 pages, 100 b&w illustrations & maps isbn e-book isbn Dr. Andrew Wiget is professor of English and director of the New Mexico Heritage Center at New Mexico State University. Dr. Olga Balalaeva is a folklorist and specialist in Finno-Ugric studies. She started working in Siberia in 1988 and was joined by Andrew Wiget in Yupiit Yuraryarait: Yup ik Ways of Dancing James H. Barker, Ann Fienup-Riordan, and Theresa Arevgaq John anthropology/photography cloth $ x 9.75, 272 pages, 150 halftones, dvd isbn Giinaquq: Like a Face Sugpiaq Masks of the Kodiak Archipelago Sven D. Haakanson Jr. and Amy F. Steffian, eds. art/native studies paperback $ x 10.5, 272 pages, full color, maps, notes, index isbn related titles toll-free

4 N E W BOOKS Finding MARS Ned Rozell Ned Rozell is a science writer for the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. He has written for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Anchorage Daily News, Mushing magazine, Kenai Peninsula Clarion, and other venues. Finding Mars Ned Rozell Finding Mars is an interwoven tale of science, travel, and adventure, as science writer Ned Rozell accompanies permafrost researcher and inveterate wanderer Kenji Yoshikawa on a 750-mile trek by snowmachine through the Alaska wilderness. Along the way, Rozell learns about Yoshikawa s fascinating life, from his boyhood in Tokyo to the youthful wanderlust that led him to push a wheeled cart across the Sahara, ski to the South Pole, and take a sailboat into the frozen reaches of the Arctic Ocean, spending a winter frozen into the ice near Barrow. It s an always-on-the-move account of a man driven not just by the desire to fill in the blank spots on a map, but also to learn everything he can about them and a ringing testament to the power of science, enthusiasm, and individual inspiration. biography march paperback $ x 9, 200 pages, b&w photos and maps isbn e-book isbn The Changing Arctic Landscape Ken D. Tape related titles Photographer Ken Tape sets changes in the landscape in stark relief, pairing decades-old photos of the arctic landscape of Alaska with photos of the same scenes taken in the present. The resulting volume is a stunning reminder of inexorable change. science cloth $ x 9, 64 pages, 89 color and b&w photos isbn Innocents in the Dry Valleys An Account of the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, Colin Bull science paperback $ x 9, 267 pages, 81 color plates, 4 maps isbn SPRING 2011 CATALOG University of Alaska Press

5 N E W BOOKS Outside Passage A Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood Julia Scully A simple reminder of the immense power of a child s love, which can last through terrible neglect. Time When Julia Scully was nine years old, her father committed suicide, and she and her sister were remanded to an orphanage. Two years later, emotionally damaged by the isolation and brutality of the orphanage, the girls followed their mother to the near-wilderness of the gold-mining territory north of Nome, Alaska, where she had leased a roadhouse in the tiny town of Taylor. Julia had no idea what to expect when she arrived, but to her surprise, she found a healing power in the stark beauty of the vast tundra, while she reveled in the boisterous, chaotic boomtown atmosphere that prevailed when thousands of American troops descended on the town at the outbreak of World War II. Outside Passage is a lyrical and affecting memoir of those years, simultaneously an emotional portrait of a young girl s first steps into adulthood and a unique portrait of a vanished frontier life. memoir february paperback $ x 8, 233 pages isbn e-book isbn Julia Scully was editor of Modern Photography for twenty years and is the author or editor of several books. A Woman in the Polar Night Christiane Ritter Introduction by Lawrence Millman nature paperback $ x 8.5, 224 pages isbn The Land Beyond A Memoir Jack D. Ives memoir paperback $ pages color plates, appendices, notes, references, index isbn related titles toll-free

6 N E W BOOKS I Think Again of Those Ancient Chinese Poets Tom Sexton Tom Sexton was Alaska s poet laureate from 1995 until He is the author of eleven books of poetry. This all-new collection by former Alaska poet laureate smoothly blends his life in Maine, his years in Alaska, and his love of Chinese poetry which has been a key influence on his work into a lyrical fantasy that will enchant lovers of verse. These tightly rhythmic, compact eight-line poems demonstrate a rare deftness with and an even more uncommon ear for language, revealing poetic form to be neither a puzzle nor an accomplishment in itself, but a compositional tool and a spur to creativity. poetry february paperback $ x 9, 72 pages isbn e-book isbn I Think Again of Those Ancient Chinese Poets Summer with snow still on the mountains and only a few blossoms on the iris again. My neighbor wonders why I tend to them year after year with scant success; to him it s clear I ve failed. I think again of those ancient Chinese poets who climbed for days to reach an alpine meadow on the rumor of an iris as dark as the night, old men calling to each other like cranes in flight. related titles The Rising and the Rain John Straley poetry paperback $ x 9, 88 pages isbn For the Sake of the Light Tom Sexton poetry paperback $ x 9, 208 pages isbn e-book isbn SPRING 2011 CATALOG University of Alaska Press

7 N E W BOOKS Lucy s Dance Deb Vanasse, illustrated by Nancy E. Slagle A charming children s book about the return of traditional dancing to one Yup ik village, Lucy s Dance tells the story of a little girl who is determined to help her grandfather demonstrate for the people of the town the beauty and complexity of traditional Yup ik dancing. Threaded through the story are accounts of Yup ik arts such as drumming, singing, and storytelling through dance, all brought to life with beautiful, full-color illustrations. Also available in a Yup ik language edition. Deb Vanasse is the author of nine books. Nancy E. Slagle is an artist who lives in Denver. children s literature may cloth $ x 11, 32 pages isbn paperback $9.95 isbn yup ik edition: may paperback $ x 11, 32 pages isbn The Little Fox Ram Papish children s cloth $ x 11, 38 pages isbn The Little Seal Ram Papish children s cloth $ x 11, 48 pages isbn Granite Susan Butcher and David Monson Illustrated by Sarah Douglas children s paperback $ x 8.5, 36 pages, 23 color illustrations isbn cloth $18.95 isbn related titles toll-free

8 N E W I N PA PE R BAC K The Kandik Map Linda Johnson NOW IN PAPERBACK! In 1880, Athabaskan Indian Paul Kandik and French explorer Francois Mercier traveled across northeastern Alaska and western Canada to create the earliest known map of the region. In this groundbreaking study with significant implications for Native American scholarship, Linda Johnson delves into the fascinating story behind the Kandik Map, drawing on historical letters, geographical analysis, and the original map itself. Linda Johnson was director of library, archives, and records management at Yukon College. She lives in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. cartography history february paperback $ x 9, 240 pages, 64 b& w photos, map isbn cloth $34.95x isbn When the Laughing Stopped The Strange, Sad Death of Will Rogers NOW IN PAPERBACK! John Evangelist Walsh John Evangelist Walsh is the author of numerous biographies and of the definitive article on the legend of Babe Ruth s called shot. The sudden death of renowned American entertainer Will Rogers inspired a national mourning, and it still resonates today. In this intimate and informed recounting, John Walsh recalls the events of that day and the plane crash that ended it all. When the Laughing Stopped is a gripping and poignant retelling of the death of a beloved American legend, shining a humanizing light on a pivotal moment in American history. literature nonfiction february paperback $ x 9, 198 pages, b&w photos and illustrations isbn cloth $26.95 isbn SPRING 2011 CATALOG University of Alaska Press

9 N E W I N PA PE R BAC K Treadwell Gold An Alaska Saga of Riches and Ruin Sheila Kelly A century ago, Treadwell, Alaska, was a featured stop on steamship cruises, a rich, up-to-date town that was the most prominent and proud in all Alaska. Its wealth, however, was founded on the remarkably productive gold mines on Douglas Island, and when those were depleted in the early decades of the twentieth century, Treadwell sank into relative obscurity. Treadwell Gold presents first-person accounts from the sons and daughters of the miners, machinists, hoist operators, and superintendents who together dug and blasted the gold that made Treadwell rich. Alongside these stories are vintage photos that capture both the industrial vigor of the mines and the daily lives that made up Treadwell society. The book will fascinate anyone interested in Alaska history or the romance of gold mining s past. history february paperback $ x 9, 232 pages, 10 halftones isbn cloth $35.00 isbn e-book Sheila Kelly has been researching and writing about Treadwell for over two decades. She holds a master s of public administration in natural resource policy from the University of Washington Evans School of Public Affairs. She lives in Seattle overlooking Puget Sound where she watches the Alaska-bound cruise ships and wants to tell everyone aboard the fascinating story of Treadwell. NOW IN PAPERBACK! Empire s Edge American Society in Nome, Alaska, Preston Jones Empire s Edge is the story of how ordinary Americans made a life on the edge of a continent, a life both ordinary and extraordinary. history paperback $ x 9, 168 pages, b&w illustrations, map isbn related titles toll-free

10 D I S T R I B U T E D TITLES Fighting for the Forty-Ninth Star C. W. Snedden and the Crusade for Alaska Statehood Terrence Cole Terrence Cole is professor of history and director of the Office of Public History at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. When Alaskans in the 1950s demanded an end to the second-class citizenship of territorial status, southern powerbrokers on Capitol Hill were the primary obstacles. They feared a forty-ninth state would tip the balance of power against segregation, and therefore keeping Alaska out of the Union was simply another means of keeping black children out of white schools. C. W. Bill Snedden, the publisher of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, helped lead the battle for statehood. Working behind the scenes with his protégé, a young attorney named Ted Stevens, Snedden s magnificent obsession would open the door to developing the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay, inspire establishment of the Arctic Wildlife Range (now the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), and add the forty-ninth star to the flag. Published by the University of Alaska Foundation Distributed by the University of Alaska Press history november cloth $ x 9, 520 pages, 83 halftones isbn e-book isbn related titles Crooked Past The History of a Frontier Mining Camp: Fairbanks, Alaska Terrence Cole history paperback $ x 8.25, 176 pages, b&w illustrations, index isbn Old Yukon Tales, Trails, and Trials Memoirs of Judge James Wickersham James Wickersham; Edited and abridged by Terrence Cole biography, history paperback $ x 9, 352 pages, 104 b&w photos isbn e-book isbn SPRING 2011 CATALOG University of Alaska Press

11 D I S T R I B U T E D TITLES Alaska Native Education Views from Within Ray Barnhardt and Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley, eds. Over the past century, the outside world has increasingly encroached on Alaska Native communities, and one of the consequences of that change has been a shift in the purpose and structure of schools in Alaska Native communities. Alaska Native Education brings together a variety of experts in the field of indigenous education to show the ways in which Alaska Natives have adopted and adapted outside ideas and rules regarding education and how they have frequently found them problematic and insufficient. The authors follow their analysis with suggestions of ways forward. Published by the Alaska Native Knowledge Network Distributed by the University of Alaska Press native studies education paperback $ x 9, 384 pages isbn Ray Barnhardt is professor of cross-cultural studies and director of the Center for Cross- Cultural Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley is associate professor of education in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Conflicting Landscapes American Schooling/Alaska Natives Clifton Bates and Michael J. Oleksa This comprehensive illustrated volume presents a wideranging picture of the schooling of Alaska Native children from past to present. It explores the histories of education philosophies and their effect on Alaska Native students, details the situation of the many rural schools serving this population, and offers proposals for improvement. Published by the Kuskokwim Corporation Distributed by the University of Alaska Press native studies education paperback $ x 9, 264 pages isbn Clifton Bates has been involved in Alaska Native education for more than thirty years. Michael J. Oleksa is the author of several books, including Another Culture/ Another World. toll-free

12 D I S T R I B U T E D TITLES Field Techniques for Sea Ice Research (DVD) Maya Salganek and Hajo Eicken Maya Salganek is assistant professor of theatre and film studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She is a multimedia artist and filmmaker whose work spans independent feature films, ethnographic documentaries, and educational films. Hajo Eicken is a professor of geophysics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. As much as one-tenth of the world s oceans are covered with sea ice, or frozen ocean water, at some point during the annual cycle. Sea ice thus plays an important, often defining, role in the natural environment and the global climate system. Presented here as a multimedia DVD, Field Techniques for Sea Ice Research is a global look at the changes in sea ice and the tools and techniques used to measure and record those changes. The first comprehensive research done on sea-ice field techniques, this will be indispensable for the study of northern sea ice and a must-have for scientists in the field of climate change research. science february dvd $10.00 isbn Field Techniques for Sea Ice Research (book) Hajo Eicken, Rolf Gradinger, Maya Salganek, Kunio Shirasawa, Don Perovich, and Matti Leppäranta, eds. related titles This book is a global look at the changes in sea ice and the tools and techniques used to measure and record those changes. (Book includes DVD listed above.) science cloth $ x 10, 592 pages, 218 graphs and figures, bibliography, index; includes dvd isbn On Sea Ice W. F. Weeks With this book, geophysicist W. F. Weeks delivers a natural history of sea ice, a fully comprehensive and up-to-date account of our knowledge of its creation, change, and function. Weeks is a geophysicist with long-term interests in the ice covers of the polar oceans. He has authored over 300 technical papers on various aspects of the polar regions and has contributed to several monographs on sea ice. science cloth $ x 10, 680 pages, 354 graphs and figures, bibliography, index isbn e-book isbn sea ice edited by hajo eicken, rolf Gradinger, Maya salganek, Kunio shirasawa, don Perovich, and Matti leppäranta 10 SPRING 2011 CATALOG University of Alaska Press

13 D I S T R I B U T E D TITLES Field Guide to Squids and Octopods of the Eastern North Pacific and Bering Sea Elaina M. Jorgensen This handy, fully illustrated guide is designed to help researchers and scientists identify squids and octopods found in the eastern North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea, regions that have been difficult to sample because of their rough seas and thus have been poorly known until now. Printed on waterproof paper, the book describes and illustrates forty-four species, with full scientific details and aids to identification. Elaina M. Jorgensen is a fisheries scientist at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Science Center. science wire-o-binding $ pages isbn Field Guide to Common Marine Fishes and Invertebrates of Alaska Susan C. Byersdorfer and Leslie J. Watson This fully illustrated book is a comprehensive field guide to more than four hundred marine species found in Alaska waters. Its primary geographic range is the Bering Sea, central Aleutian Islands, and the western and central Gulf of Alaska, but it also includes waters north of Norton Sound and those of southeastern Alaska. Designed for use in the field as its waterproof binding and paper attest it will be indispensable for fishermen, teachers, and conservation officials. Susan C. Byersdorfer and Leslie J. Watson have studied Alaska wildlife for several decades. science paperback $ pages isbn toll-free

14 P O PU L A R BAC K L I S T Alaska Trees and Shrubs Second Edition Leslie A. Viereck and Elbert J. Little, Jr. Alaska Trees and Shrubs is the definitive work on the woody plants of Alaska. This new, completely revised edition provides updated information on habitat and taxonomy, as well as detailed descriptions of every tree and shrub species in the state. Distribution maps reflect the latest survey data, also the keys, glossary, and appendix on non-native plants. botany, nature paperback $ x 9, 372 pages, b&w and color illustrations, maps, fold-out map isbn e-book isbn Common Interior Alaska Cryptogams Fungi, Lichenicolous Fungi, Lichenized Fungi, Slime Molds, Mosses, and Liverworts Gary A. Laursen and Rodney D. Seppelt With its detailed illustrations, photos, and glossary, this comprehensive field guide to interior Alaska cryptogams is useful to lay and professional investigators alike. nature paperback $ x 9, 240 pages, 354 color photos isbn e-book isbn Plants That We Eat Nauriat Niġiñaqtuat Anore Jones The classic guide to edible plant life of northwestern Alaska. Drawing on knowledge that has kept the Iñupiat people healthy for centuries, each plant is fully illustrated, carefully described, and enlivened by recipes and stories from Iñupiaq cooks. nature paperback $ x 10, 270 pages, 370 images isbn SPRING 2011 CATALOG University of Alaska Press

15 P O PU L A R BAC K LIST Once Upon an Eskimo Time Edna Wilder Edna Wilder retells a year in her Eskimo mother s life. Wilder s mother, Minnie Nedercook, grew up in the village of Rocky Point and didn t see a white man until she was in her early teens. Wilder eloquently captures the oral storytelling traditions of her people and employs descriptions of the weather and harsh climates of Alaska s Norton Sound in a narrative that captures a now-vanished lifestyle. paperback $ x 9, 200 pages isbn e-book isbn The Eskimo Girl and the Englishman Edna Wilder The Eskimo Girl and the Englishman is a sequel to the delightful story Once Upon an Eskimo Time. Resuming the tale on the day Minnie encounters her first white man, The Eskimo Girl and the Englishman relates Minnie s early twentieth-century village life as she and her Englishman marry and find determination, strength, and courage in the face of tragedy, rapidly changing technology, and unrelenting hardship. paperback $ x 9, 163 pages, b&w photos isbn cloth $26.95 isbn Secrets of Eskimo Skin Sewing Edna Wilder This book is packed with clear, easy-to-understand instructions, drawings, and photographs for readers of any skill level to turn natural or man-made furs and hides into handsome, useful garments. Author Edna Wilder takes would-be skin sewers through the step-by-step work to construct traditional items of clothing such as mukluks, parkas, and mittens, as well as for belts, baby booties, a trapper-style fur cap, and toys. paperback $ x 8.25, 144 pages, b&w and color photos isbn Alaska Native Art Tradition, Innovation, Continuity Susan W. Fair This landmark volume examines the rich artistic traditions of Alaska Natives and examines the work of the premier Alaska artists of the twentieth century. Alaska Native Art provides a living context for beadwork and ivory carving, basketry and skin sewing. Examples of work from a range of artists make this volume the most comprehensive study of Alaskan art ever published. paperback $ x 10.5, 312 pages, full color, maps isbn toll-free

16 B E S T S E LLE R S The Thousand-Mile War World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians Brian Garfield The Thousand-Mile War has been acclaimed as one of the great accounts of World War II. Frustrating, befuddling, and still the subject of debate, the Aleutian campaign nevertheless marked an important turn of the war in favor of the United States. Author Brian Garfield has published about seventy books that have sold some 20 million copies and have been made into eighteen films, including Death Sentence. history paperback $ x 9, 480 pages, b&w photos, map isbn e-book isbn Alaska at War, The Forgotten War Remembered Fern Chandonnet, ed. Only one U.S. territory has experienced foreign occupation: Alaska in World War II. Alaska at War includes wide-ranging essays covering the Japanese invasion of the islands of Attu and Kiska, the effects of the war on Aleutian Islanders, the role of minorities in the northern conflict, and the American campaign to recover the occupied Aleutians. Contributions also address the effects of the war on film, race relations, and the construction of the Alaska Highway. history paperback $ x 11, 474 pages, b&w photos, bibliography, index isbn Alaska s Hidden Wars Secret Campaigns on the North Pacific Rim Otis Hays, Jr. Tells the story of the war in the North Pacific, a story of savage weather, isolation, and sacrifice. Two island chains, the Aleutians and the Kuriles, became the focus of a series of major campaigns that pitted the Americans against the Japanese. Alaska s Hidden Wars chronicles the role of Japanese-American intelligence specialists and reveals a Japanese eyewitness account of the defense of Attu. It is a fast-moving history that brings declassified archival sources to light and draws the reader into the lonely, bitter war fought in the North Pacific. history cloth $ x 9, 200 pages, b&w photos, map, bibliography, index isbn paperback $19.95 isbn SPRING 2011 CATALOG University of Alaska Press

17 B E S T S E LLI N G D I S T R I B U T E D TITLES Yuuyaraq The Way of the Human Being Harold Napoleon with Eric Madsen Yuuyaraq discusses the effects of the 1770s 1940s epidemics on Alaska Native people: countless deaths, loss of culture bearers, and psychological scars. anthropology, history paperback $ x 8.5, 76 pages, b&w illustrations, map isbn The Gospel According to Peter John Peter John, ed. by David J. Krupa Chief/Dr. Peter John, traditional chief of Minto, was the rarest of individuals who was able to see beyond his own cultural upbringing and come to understand the human condition at a level that transcends conventional wisdom. biography paperback $ x 9, 96 pages isbn Shandaa In My Lifetime Belle Herbert, ed. by Bill Pfisterer Belle Herbert was a Gwich in Athabaskan woman who was between 105 and 127 years old in 1979, when the Alaska Humanities Forum provided money to do a series of recordings of her telling her life story. The accounts in this book were transcribed from those recordings. biography paperback $ x 11, 208 pages, b&w illustrations isbn Dena ina Sukdu a Traditional Stories of the Tanaina Athabaskans Compiled by Joan M. Tenenbaum These traditional tales recorded by Dena ina Athabaskan storytellers are in Dena ina with English translations. An accompanying audio CD includes six of the stories from the original recordings. Includes twelve original works by renowned Alaska artist Dale DeArmond. folklore paperback $ x 9, 288 pages, cd, 12 color illustrations isbn toll-free

18 Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge The year 2010 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Conservationists Olaus and Margaret Murie led the campaign to establish the nation s first ecosystem-scale conservation area, unprecedented in size and in the range of values it protects, and on December 6, 1960, the Arctic Refuge was established for the purpose of preserving unique wildlife, wilderness and recreational values. The University of Alaska Press has published several books relating to the refuge and to arctic wilderness and conservation issues. Arctic Sanctuary Images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Jeff Jones and Laurie Hoyle photography cloth $ x pages, 156 color plates isbn The Changing Arctic Landscape Ken D. Tape nature photography and climate change cloth $ x pages, 41 color plates isbn Last Great Wilderness The Campaign to Establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Roger Kaye history cloth $ x pages, maps, bibliography, index isbn Letters from Alaska John Muir, edited by Robert Engberg and Bruce Merrell nature paperback $ x pages isbn SPRING 2011 CATALOG University of Alaska Press

19 Other University of Alaska Publications The Dene-Yeniseian Connection Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska The Dene-Yeniseian Connection is a special issue of the Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska and represents the unveiling of a far-reaching historical linguistic hypothesis. The lead article by Dr. Edward J. Vajda presents extensive evidence for Dene-Yeniseian, an ancient connection between Ket, the only surviving member of the Yeniseian language family of Central Siberia, and the North-American family of Na-Dene. Accompanying Vajda s paper is primary data on Na-Dene historical phonology by Jeff Leer, along with critiques by several linguistic specialists and articles on a range of topics (archaeology, prehistory, ethnogeography, genetics, kinship, folklore). If accepted by the broader academic community, Dene- Yeniseian would be the first substantiation of a language stock between Asia and North America. Dene-Yeniseian would represent the farthest geographic distance for a pedestrian hunter-gatherer language stock. The volume is a joint publication of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Department of Anthropology and the Alaska Native Language Center and is co-edited by Prof. James Kari (linguist) and Prof. Ben Potter (archaeologist), both of UAF. There is no question that Vajda s substantive linguistic paper, together with the supplementary chapters in this collection, constitutes a most significant breakthrough in terms of certain New World Old World relationships. Don Dumond (University of Oregon) APUA issues can be ordered from the Department of Anthropology, UAF: fyanth@uaf.edu, (phone), (fax). APUA website: anthro/apua/. Price is $40 + shipping for individuals and $100 + shipping for institutions. Historical linguistics has scored a major triumph by demonstrating beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of Dene- Yeniseian, a language family with approximately the time depth of Indo-European. Victor Golla, Humboldt State University... provides the strongest evidence to date for a connection between the [Na- Dene] of North America and the Yeniseian language family of Siberia. Keren Rice, University of Toronto This one volume of papers covers a broader range of comparisons and proposed reconstructions of the DY stock to a higher degree than one will find from the review of the accessible current literatures on any other language family or stock of comparable divergence.... Dene-Yeniseian will change the world. Eric Hamp, University of Chicago

20 Other University of Alaska Publications Tidal Echoes University of Alaska Southeast Literary and Arts Journal, 2010 Tidal Echoes is Southeast Alaska s regional art and literary journal. This journal showcases creative work from those living full-time in Southeast Alaska. The journal is published by the University of Alaska Southeast and Capital City Weekly. It is edited and published by UAS students who are assisted by an editorial board of faculty and community members. Each year a featured artist and writer are chosen. Past writers have included John Straley, Ernestine Hayes, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, and Nick Jans. Past artists have included Jane Terzis, Ray Troll, Nathan Jackson, and David Woodie. To order contact: University of Alaska Southeast Attn. Virginia Berg Glacier Highway Juneau, AK virginia.berg@uas.alaska.edu phone: $ $4.90 shipping

21 Other University of Alaska Publications D I S T R I B U T E D TITLES Permafrost A literary journal published by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Permafrost is the farthest north literary journal in the world and is published annually by the graduate students in the University of Alaska Fairbanks Department of English. Permafrost accepts unsolicited fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, drama, and art annual from September 1 to March 15. See the website at permafrost for more information, or fbpfrost@uaf.edu. Subscription rates are $9 per year, $16 for two years, and $22 for three years. Make checks payable to Permafrost and mail to the UAF Department of English, PO Box , Fairbanks, AK Two Must Have a Mind of Winter Wrathful winter, and the snow begging us Hold cold to cold your fluorescent bodies. I dream of tall grass scissoring in our ears But receive only this sputtering oil heater. Our ragged comforter is our only comfort, And still our stupid toes keep peeking out. Halving frostbitten veggies, my wife says: Carrots remind me of the medieval ages. I laugh till a bird of mist hovers in the air. Witch s finger, crow s beak, lizard s tail. Spider s web curtained high in one corner, Frozen, fragile. One hell of a snowflake. Like ones condemned must we make love: Beanies for to hide our too beautiful faces. Jaydn DeWald from Permafrost vol. 32

22 d i g i tal books Digital Books Now Available! For perpetual, 30-day, or 180-day ownership Alaska at 50 Greg Kimura, ed. $24.95 isbn Alaska Native Cultures and Issues Libby Roderick, ed. $12.95 isbn Alaska Trees and Shrubs Leslie Viereck and Elbert Little $24.95 isbn Apun: The Arctic Snow Matthew Sturm $12.95 isbn Apun: A Teacher s Guide Matthew Sturm $19.95 isbn Bear Wrangler Will Troyer $19.95 isbn Before the Storm Fredricka Martin with Raymond Hudson $39.95 isbn Bong HiTs 4 Jesus James C. Foster $29.95 isbn Changing Paths Bill Sherwonit $21.95 isbn City for Empire Preston Jones $26.95 isbn Cold Flashes Michael Engelhard, ed. $21.95 isbn Common Interior Alaska Cryptogams Gary A. Laursen and Rodney D. Seppelt $26.95 isbn Field Techniques for Sea Ice Research Hajo Eicken, ed. $65.00 isbn Fighting for the Forty-Ninth Star Terrence Cole $30.00 isbn Finding Mars Ned Rozell $22.95 isbn For the Sake of the Light Tom Sexton $22.95 isbn Globalization of the Circumpolar North Lassi Heininen and Chris Southcott, eds. $24.95 isbn I Think Again of Those Ancient Chinese Poets Tom Sexton $14.95 isbn Ice Floe New and Selected Shannon Gramse and Sarah Kirk, eds. $20.00 isbn Khanty, People of the Taiga Andrew Wiget and Olga Balalaeva $39.95 isbn The Land Beyond Jack D. Ives $14.95 isbn Natalia Shelikhova Dawn Lea Black and Alexander Yu. Petrov, eds. and trans. $29.95 isbn Old Yukon James Wickersham and Terrence Cole $29.95 isbn On Sea Ice W. F. Weeks $85.00 isbn Once Upon an Eskimo Time Edna Wilder $17.95 isbn Outside Passage Julia Scully $15.95 isbn A Place of Belonging Phyllis Demuth Movius $17.95 isbn The Thousand-Mile War Brian Garfield $24.95 isbn Treadwell Gold Sheila Kelly $35.00 isbn More coming soon! 20 SPRING 2011 CATALOG University of Alaska Press

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