{"id":1005,"date":"2019-11-18T19:45:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T04:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2019-11-18T19:45:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T04:45:16","slug":"richard-k-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/2019\/11\/18\/richard-k-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard K. Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard K. Nelson, a remarkable Alaskan, passed away on Monday, November 4<sup>th<\/sup>, 2019.\u00a0 I never met the man, but I\u2019ve been touched by his work for over forty years, ever since I read <em>Hunters of the Northern Ice<\/em> and <em>Hunters of the Northern Forest<\/em> in 1975.\u00a0 He was an anthropologist originally from Wisconsin, and what he learned and experienced in researching his Alaskan ethnographies changed his life forever.\u00a0 He eventually settled in Sitka, wrote books (including the meditative <em>The Island Within<\/em>), participated in a five-part video series accompanying <em>Make Prayers to the Raven<\/em>, and literally found his voice in creating the radio program <em>Encounters<\/em>, \u201cA program of observations, experiences, and reflections on the world around us.\u201d\u00a0 His deep knowledge, optimism, and enthusiasm come through so clearly, as does the sound of whatever subject his parabolic microphone was capturing while he recorded his episodes in the field, be it polar bears, sandhill cranes, whales, or even \u2014 during visits to Australia \u2014 wombats.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few of Nelson\u2019s works in the Consortium Library:<\/p>\n<p>ALASKA E99.E7 N43 1969<br \/>\nHunters of the Northern Ice<\/p>\n<p>ALASKA E99.K84 N44 1973<br \/>\nHunters of the Northern Forest: Designs for Survival Among the Alaskan Kutchin<\/p>\n<p>ALASKA GN21.N45 A3 1989<br \/>\nThe Island Within<\/p>\n<p>ALASKA E99.K79 N44 1983<br \/>\nMake Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest<\/p>\n<p>ALASKA QL765.N45 2005<br \/>\nEncounters: Radio Experiences in the North (6 CDs)<\/p>\n<p>The video series <em>Make Prayers to the Raven<\/em> can be borrowed on 2 DVDs from other Alaska libraries in our system.\u00a0 But you can also listen to 108 <em>Encounters<\/em> episodes simply by going here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.encountersnorth.org\/listen-index\">https:\/\/www.encountersnorth.org\/listen-index<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re lucky to have such an audio archive available: a few minutes with Richard Nelson can inform and brighten your life, and help you better appreciate the Alaska that is all around us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard K. Nelson, a remarkable Alaskan, passed away on Monday, November 4th, 2019.\u00a0 I never met the man, but I\u2019ve been touched by his work for over forty years, ever since I read Hunters of the Northern Ice and Hunters of the Northern Forest in 1975.\u00a0 He was an anthropologist originally from Wisconsin, and what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}