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Hunting Tradition in a Changing World - Yup'ik Lives in Alaska Today (Hardcover)
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Hunting Tradition in a Changing World - Yup'ik Lives in Alaska Today (Hardcover)
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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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