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PhD Anthropology University of British Columbia
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Bachelors Anthropology University of British Columbia

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According to Wikipedia, Julie Cruikshank is a Canadian anthropologist known for her research collaboration with Indigenous peoples of the Yukon. She is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. She has lived and worked for over a decade in the Yukon Territory, creating an oral history of the region, through her work with people including Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith, and Annie Ned. Her work focuses mainly on the practical and theoretical developments in oral tradition studies.

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Julie Cruikshank's Published Works

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The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory (1999) (319)
Glaciers and Climate Change: Perspectives from Oral Tradition (2001) (233)
Life Lived like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders (1992) (206)
Oral Tradition and Oral History: Reviewing Some Issues (2016) (67)
Are Glaciers ‘Good to Think With’? Recognising Indigenous Environmental Knowledge 1 (2012) (63)
Oral Tradition and Material Culture: Multiplying Meanings of 'Words' and 'Things' (1992) (56)
Negotiating with Narrative: Establishing Cultural Identity at the Yukon International Storytelling Festival (1997) (56)
Legend and landscape: convergence of oral and scientific traditions with special reference to the Yukon territory, Canada (1980) (37)
6. The social life of texts: Editing on the page and in performance (1999) (37)
Invention of Anthropology in British Columbia's Supreme Court: Oral Tradition as Evidence in Delgamuukw v. B.C. (1992) (35)
Reinscribing meaning: Memory and indigenous identity in Sakha Republic (Yakutia) (2000) (31)
Life Lived like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Elders (1993) (29)
GETTING THE WORDS RIGHT: PERSPECTIVES ON NAMING AND PLACES IN ATHAPASKAN ORAL HISTORY (2016) (24)
Imperfect Translations: Rethinking Objects of Ethnographic Collections (1995) (16)
Images of Society in Klondike Gold Rush Narratives: Skookum Jim and the Discovery of Gold (1992) (16)
Claiming Legitimacy: Prophecy Narratives from Northern Aboriginal Women (1994) (15)
Athapaskan women: Lives and legends (1979) (9)
For an Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay on the Foundations of a Social Ethic. (1994) (8)
Telling about Culture: Changing Traditions in Subarctic Anthropology (1988) (4)
Best Left as Indians: Native-White Relations in the Yukon Territory, 1840-1973, by Ken S. Coates (1992) (4)
The Stolen Women: Female Journeys in Tagish and Tutchone (1983) (3)
“On” and “Off” the Record in Shifting Times and Circumstances (2013) (3)
The circumpolar Inuit: health of a population in transition . Peter Bjerregaard and T. Kue Young. 1998. Copenhagen: Munksgaard. 289 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 87-16-11905-3. DKK 300. (1999) (2)
Life lived like a story : cultural constructions of life history by Tagish and Tutchone women (1987) (2)
Tagish and Tlingit place names in the Southern Lakes region, Yukon Territory (1984) (2)
The Stolen Woman: Female Journeys in Tagish and Tutchone Narrative (1985) (1)
The role of northern Canadian Indian women in social change (1969) (1)
Myth as a framework for life stories (2021) (1)
Canadian Anthropology (2008) (0)
Don't Let the Sun Step over You: A White Mountain Apache Family Life, 1860-1975. Eva Tulene Watt (2005) (0)
The discovery of Klondike gold: Contributions from First Nations' oral traditions (1994) (0)
Haa Shuka, Our Ancestors: Tlingit Oral Narratives, edited by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer (1988) (0)
Catharine McClellan (1921 (1984) (0)
The Tlingit Indians. GEORGE THORNTON EMMONS. FREDERICA DE LAGUNA (1994) (0)
Thank you to reviewers (2020) (0)
Gender and History (2002) (0)
Orality and Literacy: Reflections across Disciplines, edited by Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan, and Natalia Khanenko-Friesen.Orality and Literacy: Reflections across Disciplines, edited by Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan, and Natalia Khanenko-Friesen. Toronto, University of Toronto Press. 201 (2012) (0)
When the World Began: A Yukon Teacher's Guide to Comparative and Local Mythology. (1978) (0)
Saqqaq: an Inuit hunting community in the modern world . Jens Dahl. 2000. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, xii + 277 p, soft cover. ISBN 0-8020-8237-8. £16.00; $Can24.95. (2001) (0)
Julian RICE, Deer Women and Elk Men: The Lakota Narratives of Ella Deloria (Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1992, 211 p., ISBN 0-8263-1362-0) (1993) (0)
Introduction: Changing Traditions in Northern Ethnography (2015) (0)
Catharine McClellan (1921–2009) (2010) (0)
Lisa Philip Valentine & Regna Darnell (eds.), Theorizing the Americanist tradition. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp. 397. Hb $29.95. (2001) (0)
Peter PITSEOLAK and Dorothy Harley EBER, People From Our Side: A Life Story with Photographs and Oral Biography, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1993; 163 pages (paper) (2021) (0)
Ethnography as dialogue (1994) (0)
Conference reports, notes and announcements (2011) (0)
The Potential of Traditional Societies, and of Anthropology, Their Predator (1971) (0)
A Wealth of Stories (1992) (0)
Oral Traditions and Written Accounts: An Incident from the Klondike Gold Rush (2021) (0)
Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. Edited by the Personal Narratives Group. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. 277 pp. Hardbound, $39.95; Softbound, $14.95. (1992) (0)
Northern Athapaskan Art: A Beadwork Tradition. KATE C. DUNCAN (1991) (0)
Animism in rainforest and tundra: Personhood, animals, plants and things in contemporary Amazonia and Siberia, edited by Mark Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti and Olga Ulturgasheva (2014) (0)

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University of British Columbia