JOANNE B. MULCAHY is a folklorist and an anthropologist. She teaches through the Gender Studies Program and the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College.
[This book] has taken on the important task of making certain that
the lives of the healing women, the midwives, are not
forgotten.--Gordon L. Pullar "from the foreword"
A significant contribution to Alaskan anthropology and to the
ethnographic literature about Alutiiq people. Joanne Mulcahy's
writing is exceptional, and her scholarship meets the highest
standards for ethnographic studies. Truly outstanding, she stands
on the firm foundation established by Margaret Mead, Elizabeth
Marshall Thomas, and Colin Turnbull.--Richard Nelson "author of
Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest"
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