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Telling Our Selves - Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska (Hardcover, New)
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Telling Our Selves - Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 5
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In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and
non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities
through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing.
Although ethnicity is overtly constructed in terms of either/or
categories, the discourse of Bethel residents suggests that their
actual concern is less with whether one is native or non-native,
than how native one is in a given context. In the interweaving of
subsistence practices and subsistence discourse, ethnicity is
constantly recreated. This type of discourse occurs in a
conversational setting where ethnicity is both implicitly and
explicitly contested. While the book is ethnographic, it is not
"about Eskimo's." Rather it is about how Bethel residents use
similar forms of discourse to strategically validate disparate
identities. In this context, the homeland of Yup'ik Eskimos,
subsistence is the focus of people's interactions, regardless of
their ascriptive ethnicity. Even people who spend little time in
subsistence activities spend a great deal of time in subsistence
conversation. Unlike traditional ethnographies which focus on
traditions, and consequently tend to reify the past, this
contemporary ethnography focuses on contemporary preoccupations of
identity and meaning. The ethnographic description becomes a device
for preserving and explicating the opulent polysemy of situated
talk.
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