Heritage and Arctic Late Industrialism in Alaska
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
Product details
- ISBN 9781041106678
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Based on long-term ethnographic engagement with Alutiiq/Sugpiaq communities in Southwest Alaska, this book explores the interrelationship of cultural heritage, (de)colonialism, environmentalism, political agency, and the representation of Indigenous identity in museums.
Drawing on anthropological and social theory, Mason shows how Alutiiq/Sugpiaq identity and heritage have been collaboratively shaped across community, institutional, and corporate settings as a means of negotiating relations between Indigenous traditions and the conditions of late industrial life. In doing so, the book demonstrates that cultural heritage operates as a vital domain of political expression and collective action through which Kodiak Islanders sustain autonomy, articulate values, and advance their own visions of modernity.
This work will be of interest to academics and researchers with interests in Arctic communities, Arctic politics, cultural heritage, and Indigenous identity.
Arthur Mason is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Social Anthropology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. He is a political anthropologist specializing in energy security, ecological vulnerability, and cultural heritage in the Arctic. He is the author of Energy Capitol: The Waning of Regulatory Form (Routledge, 2024), Consulting Energy: From Judgment to Decision-Making (Routledge, 2025), and Energy Images: Aesthetics of Resemblance and Form (Routledge, 2026). He is also the editor of Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North (2022) and co-editor of Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas (2015).
