Fogarty mary ellen (1 risultati)
Altre immaginiEditore: Valley Press, Lyndhurst, New Jersey 1990
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Hard Back. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 416 Pages Indexed. Mary Ellen Fogarty was a scientist, writer and explorer whose travels took her on a search for knowledge and meaning into deep realms of both the physical and spiritual worlds. Born on January 16, 1957 in Troy, N.Y., she grew… up in Rutherford, N.J. After earning a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1979, she began the extensive traveling and field work which continued for the rest of her life. She started her professional career by working on an extensive series of university-sponsored archaeological excavations in the Southeast, including ones in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and South Carolina. She was awarded an M.A. in anthropology from the University of Tennessee in 1990 and had several scientific papers published or presented to conferences. Mary moved to Alaska in 1987 to work as an anthropologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs ANCSA office in Anchorage, and later for the state Department of Fish and Game in Bethel. Her work took her above the Arctic Circle and to all parts of Alaska, and gave her an intimate familiarity with Alaskan Native cultures, including those of the Yup'ik, Inupiat, Athabaskan, Aleut and Alutiq peoples. She was deeply involved in conflict resolution and volunteered her time in Alaska prisons through the Hands of Peace organization. After seeing firsthand the consequences of the lack of adequate medical care in remote areas, she decided to pursue a career in medicine and enrolled in premed courses at the University of Alaska at Anchorage. A climbing accident on Ptarmigan Peak near Anchorage on June 29, 1997 cut short these aspirations. Mary's ashes were scattered in Chugach State Park and in the Aleutian Islands. Her full but too-brief life was celebrated at more than a dozen ceremonies, and memorials to her have been dedicated in Alaska and Tennessee.
