The Artists Behind the Work

Life Histories of Nick Charles, Sr., Frances Demientieff, Lena Sours, Jennie Thlunaut
by Ann Fienup-Riordan, Sophie M. Johnson, Katharine McNamara, Sharon D. Moore and Charles Smythe and Rosita Worl

Details: Imprint: University of Alaska Press

University Press of Colorado - The Artists Behind the Work

Paperback Price: $19.95

The four life histories that make up this catalog- the basis for the exhibit The Artists Behind the Work- have all sorts of things to offer the reader. They are fascinating stories about interesting people. They are Alaskan history up close, on an intimate and very local level during a period of tremendous change in this northern region. Based on oral history interviews, they are enlivened with the directness of first-hand experience and personal knowledge.

Ann Fienup-Riordan

Ann Fienup-Riordan has lived and worked in Alaska since 1973. An anthropologist documenting Yup’ik history and oral traditions with the Calista Elders Council (now Calista Education and Culture) since 2000, she has written and edited more than twenty books, including Yungcautnguuq Nunam Qainga Tamarmi/All the Land’s Surface Is Medicine: Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska.

Charles Smythe

Katharine McNamara

Rosita Worl

Sharon D. Moore

Sophie M. Johnson
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-931163-02-9
Publication Month: November
Publication Year: 1986
Pages: 149
Discount Type: Short
ECommerce Code: 9780931163029
Member Institution Access : Mountain Scholar