... Inuit - Spouse Exchange ( Chicago : Department of Anthropology , University of Chicago , 1961 ) , who writes that ... wives , but [ also ] by the man of one couple and the woman of another , or even between the two women " ( p . 1 ) ... From the author of the acclaimed Insectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present When Hugh Raffles’s two sisters died suddenly within a few weeks of each other, he reached for rocks, stones, and other seemingly solid objects as anchors in a world unmoored, as ways to make sense of these events through stories far larger than his own. A moving, profound, and affirming meditation, The Book of Unconformities is grounded in stories of stones: Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan’s Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived with six Inuit adventurers in the exuberant but fractious New York City of 1897. As Raffles follows the � A moving, profound, and affirming meditation, The Book of Unconformities is grounded in stories of stones: Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan’s Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived with six Inuit adventurers in the exuberant but fractious New York City of 1897. � As Raffles follows these fundamental objects, unearthing the events they’ve engendered, he finds them losing their solidity and becoming as capricious, indifferent, and willful as time itself. Pratinjau buku ini » Halaman terpilih Halaman 92 Halaman 10 Halaman 79 Halaman 70 Halaman 7 Isi MARBLE 7 SANDSTONE 45 GNEISS 73 MAGNETITE 101 BLUBBERSTONE 123 IRON 159 MUSCOVITE 243 Acknowledgments 257 Notes 259 Index 359 Hak Cipta Edisi yang lain - Lihat semua The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time Hugh Raffles Pratinjau tidak tersedia - 2020 The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time Hugh Raffles Pratinjau tidak tersedia - 2022 The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time Hugh Raffles Pratinjau tidak tersedia - 2020 Lihat semua » Istilah dan frasa umum Aleqasina American Museum AMNH ancient Anthropology archaeologists Archives Arctic arrived Atlantic Aubrey Aubrey Burl Avebury Baffin Britain British Calanais Callanish Cambridge camp century circle coal colonial courtesy Culture Danish Dutch early Edinburgh English Eskimo Europe European expeditions Exploration fish Franz Boas Geology Greenland Hacquebord Hebrides Helga Hudson hundred hunters hunting Iceland Indian Innaanganeq/Cape York Inughuit Inuit Inwood iron Island Jesup John Josephine Journal Kindertransport land landscape Lenape living London Longyearbyen Manhattan marble Matthew Henson Megalithic meteorite Minerals Minik monument Muscovy Company National Native Natural History Norse North Pole northern Northwest Norway Norwegian Odin Stone Oneroad Orkney Oxford Peary Peary's Photo by author Polar Pomor Qaanaaq race region Reykjav�k Richards Robert Ross Russian Sacheuse Savissivik Scotland settlement ship Society Spitsbergen Stenness Svalbard Theresienstadt thousand Thule tion trade trans University Press Uummannaq Voyage walruses Washington Whaling William women wrote Tentang pengarang (2020) HUGH RAFFLES is the author of Insectopedia, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the Orion Book Award and the Ludwik Fleck Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science, and of In Amazonia: A Natural History which received the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing.