Julie Cruikshank is a Canadian anthropologist known for her research collaboration with Indigenous peoples of the

Yukon Yukon (; ; formerly called Yukon Territory and also referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories. It also is the second-least populated province or territory in Canada, with a population of 43,964 as ...

. She is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks among the top thre ...

. 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.

Awards and achievements

In 2012, Cruikshank was appointed an Officer to the Order of Canada. In 2010, she became a fellow in the Royal Society of Canada, the Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada. In 2006, Cruikshank's book from the

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, '' Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination'', won the

Julian Steward Julian Haynes Steward (January 31, 1902 – February 6, 1972) was an American anthropologist known best for his role in developing "the concept and method" of cultural ecology, as well as a scientific theory of culture change. Early life and ed ...

Award from the Anthropology and Environmental Society, which is a section of the American Anthropological Association. The book also won the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing in 2006. In 1995, Cruikshank was awarded the Robert F. Heizer Prize by the American Society for Ethnohistory as well as a UBC prize Prize for Excellence in Teaching from the Faculty of Arts. In 1992, she was awarded the UBC Killam Research Prize and two years later in 1994, received the UBC Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Faculty Research Fellowship.

Publications

Books

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Edited volumes

* 2007
My Old People’s Stories: A Legacy for Yukon First Nations
by Catharine McClellan. 3 volumes. Occasional Paper in Yukon History, 5(1-3), 804 pages. * Changing Traditions in Northern Ethnography CRUIKSHANK, Julie. Introduction: Changing Traditions in Northern Ethnography. Northern Review, .l. n. 14, nov. 2015. ISSN 1929-6657.

References

External links

Faculty website
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