Item: CONTROL VS. KINSHIP IN AVALANCHE COUNTRY: DOLORES LACHAPELLE AND THE WAY OF THE MOUNTAIN
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Title: CONTROL VS. KINSHIP IN AVALANCHE COUNTRY: DOLORES LACHAPELLE AND THE WAY OF THE MOUNTAIN
Proceedings: International Snow Science Workshop Proceedings 2023, Bend, Oregon
Authors:
- Clare Menzel [ Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA ]
Date: 2023-10-08
Abstract: Dolores LaChapelle, author of "Deep Powder Snow: 40 Years of Ecstatic Skiing, Avalanches, and Earth Wisdom", was an activist and independent scholar in pursuit of knowledge about appropriate human relationship with place. Known as the Godmother of Powder Skiing, she practiced a highly ceremonial, embodied land ethic that emerged from her experiences as a skier. She rejected longstanding global narratives about progress as Euro-American civilization's liberation from and domination of nature. LaChapelle challenged this paradigm with The Way of the Mountain, a method for producing ethical knowledge that emphasizes more-than-human agency and the intelligence of non-human relations. Three case studies describe events where LaChapelle developed this method of thinking in Aspen, Colorado, and Alta, Utah during the post-World War II era.
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.19.pdf
Language of Article: English
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Keywords: snow culture, acquiring knowledge, avalanche control, history, land ethic
Page Number(s): 751 - 758
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