Cultural Anthropologist visits UAF to discuss impacts of ANCSA on Alaska Native Communities

Submitted by Patty Gray
Phone: 474-6188
11/05/03

Dr. Kirk Dombrowski, cultural anthropologist and specialist on the impacts of ANCSA on Alaska Native communities, will visit UAF on November 13-14. Dombrowski, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, has conducted extensive field research in Southeast Alaska, primarily in the communities of Hydaburg, Kake and Hoonah, and has recently published a book titled Against Culture: Development, Politics and Religion in Indian Alaska (University of Nebraska Press, 2001). He also has an article in a recent issue of American Anthropologist titled "The Praxis of Indigenism" (2002 issue no. 4, pp. 1062-1073).

Dr. Dombrowski will be making two public appearances: Thursday, November 13, 12:00 noon: brown bag public lecture, Noel Wien Library, –Native Culture and Christian Fundamentalism in Southeast Alaska” and Friday, November 14, 3:30 p.m.: Anthropology Colloquium, 304 Eielson Bldg., –ÄDifferent Day: A Culture History of Hydaburg” Dr. Dombrowskiês visit is sponsored by the UAF Anthropology Department and the UA Museum, with funding provided by the National Science Foundation through ARCUS.