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Where the echo began - And other oral traditions from southwestern Alaska (Hardcover)
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Where the echo began - And other oral traditions from southwestern Alaska (Hardcover)
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In this book, the Native people of southwest Alaska generously
share the traditional stories that form the expressive core of
their unique culture. The lifeways observed and anecdotes recounted
to a then-young university graduate, who recorded and compiled them
in communities on Nunivak Island and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta,
offer a glimpse today of a longstanding way of life.
In the mid-1930s, Hans Himmelheber closely observed the Yup'ik and
Cup'ig people who offered him hospitality, paying heed to their
stories and anecdotes; he photographed them just as carefully,
capturing their activities with technical elegance while
simultaneously preserving unstudied moments in the people's lives.
Himmelheber's photographs also honor his informants, for as one of
them told him regarding his people's artwork, "you know every
picture has a meaning." The majority of these photographs have not
been published before.
This book includes the translated contents of Himmelheber's "The
Frozen Path: Myths, Tales, and Legends of the Eskimos";
""Ethnographic Notes on the Nunivak Eskimos""; ""Noseblood as
Adhesive Material for Color Paint among the Eskimos""; and
""Unimaginable Miracles in the Poetry of Western Africa and the
Eskimos,"" originally released in German. Kurt and Ester Vitt's
translation is readable and clear. Editor Ann Fienup-Riordan,
herself a distinguished ethnographer known for her work in
southwest Alaska, provides annotation and a detailed discussion of
Himmelheber's role as observer and recorder in a thoughtful,
scholarly introduction.
Though much has changed in the last half century, Yup'ik and Cup'ig
orators continue to tell stories to educate and amuse their
listeners. With this English translation, Himmelheber has passed on
what he learned to Native and non-Native readers alike.
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