Hunting tradition in a changing world : Yup'ik lives in Alaska today

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Hunting tradition in a changing world : Yup'ik lives in Alaska today

Ann Fienup-Riordan with William Tyson ... [et al.]

Rutgers University Press, c2000

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Includes bibliographical references ( p. 281-292) and index

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cl. ISBN 9780813528045

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The Yupiit in southwestern Alaska are members of the larger family of Inuit cultures. Including more than 20,000 individuals in seventy villages, the Yupiit continue to engage in traditional hunting activities, carefully following the seasonal shifts in the environment they know so well. During the twentieth century, especially after the construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, the Yup'ik people witnessed and experienced explosive cultural changes. Anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan explores how these subarctic hunters engage in a ""hunt"" for history, to make connections within their own communities and between them and the larger world. She turns to the Yupiit themselves, joining her essays with eloquent narratives by individual Yupiit, which illuminate their hunting traditions in their own words. To highlight the ongoing process of cultural negotiation, Fienup-Riordan provides vivid examples: How the Yupiit use metaphor to teach both themselves and others about their past and present lives; how they maintain their cultural identity, even while moving away from native villages; and how they worked with museums in the ""Lower 48"" on an exhibition of Yup'ik ceremonial masks. Ann Fienup-Riordan has published many books on Yup'ik history and oral tradition, including Eskimo Essays: Yup'ik Lives and How We See Them, The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks and Boundaries and Passages. She has lived with and written about the Yupiit for twenty-five years.
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pa. ISBN 9780813528052

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The Yupiit in southwestern Alaska are members of the larger family of Inuit cultures. Including more than 20,000 individuals in seventy villages, the Yupiit continue to engage in traditional hunting activities, carefully following the seasonal shifts in the environment they know so well. During the twentieth century, especially after the construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, the Yup'ik people witnessed and experienced explosive cultural changes. Anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan explores how these subarctic hunters engage in a "hunt" for history, to make connections within their own communities and between them and the larger world. She turns to the Yupiit themselves, joining her essays with eloquent narratives by individual Yupiit, which illuminate their hunting traditions in their own words. To highlight the ongoing process of cultural negotiation, Fienup-Riordan provides vivid examples: How the Yupiit use metaphor to teach both themselves and others about their past and present lives; how they maintain their cultural identity, even while moving away from native villages; and how they worked with museums in the "Lower 48" on an exhibition of Yup'ik ceremonial masks. Ann Fienup-Riordan has published many books on Yup'ik history and oral tradition, including Eskimo Essays: Yup'ik Lives and How We See Them, The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks and Boundaries and Passages. She has lived with and written about the Yupiit for twenty-five years.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction - Continuity and Change in Southwestern Alaska An Anthropologist Reassess Her Methods The Boy Who Went to Live with the Seals / Paul John Yup'ik and Christian Encounter - Metaphors of Conversion, Metaphors of Change Life Is Like a Toolbox / Paul John Mixed Metaphors: Old Yup'ik Acts in the New Catholic Church My Experiences Growing Up / William Tyson yup'ik@alaska.net - Yup'ik Community in the 1990s: A Worldwide Web Yup'iks in the City / John Active What's in a Name?: Becoming a Real Person in a Yup'ik Community Tuqluryaraq (``The Way of Knowing Who Your Relatives Are'') Hunting Tradition in the Late Twentieth Century Collaboration on Display: A Yup'ik Exhibit at Three National Museums Speaking with Elders / Marie Meade Elders in Museums: Fieldwork Turned on Its Head Museums: Part of God's Plan / Paul John ``Let the Millennium Come...We'll Make It'' / John Active Notes References Resources Index

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