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Tengautuli Atkuk / The Flying Parka
The Meaning and Making of Parkas in Southwest Alaska
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan,Alice Reardenm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
685 kr
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A unique collaboration celebrating the importance of parkas in Yup'ik material cultureParkas are part of a living tradition in southwest Alaska. Some are ornamented with tassels, beads, and elaborate stitching; others are simpler fur or birdskin garments. Although fewer fancy parkas are sewn today, many people still wear those made for them by their mothers and other relatives."Parka-making" conversations touch on every aspect of Yup'ik life—child rearing, marriage partnerships, ceremonies and masked dances, traditional oral instructions, and much more. In The Flying Parka, more than fifty Yup'ik men and women share sewing techniques and "parka stories," speaking about the significance of different styles, the details of family designs, and the variety of materials used in creating these functional and culturally important garments. Based on nearly two decades of conversations with Yup'ik sewing groups and visits to the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Museum of Natural History, this volume documents the social importance of parkas, the intricacies of their construction, and their exceptional beauty. It features over 170 historical and contemporary images, full bilingual versions of six parka stories, and a glossary in Yup'ik and English.
Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather
Continuity and Change on the Bering Sea Coast
AvAlice Rearden,Ann Fienup-Riordan
E-bok
Engelska, 2013
763 kr
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Ellavut / Our Yup''ik World and Weather is a result of nearly ten years of gatherings among Yup''ik elders to document the qanruyutet (words of wisdom) that guide their interactions with the environment. In an effort to educate their own young people as well as people outside the community, the elders discussed the practical skills necessary to live in a harsh environment, stressing the ethical and philosophical aspects of the Yup''ik relationship with the land, ocean, snow, weather, and environmental change, among many other elements of the natural world.At every gathering, at least one elder repeated the Yup''ik adage, "The world is changing following its people." The Yup''ik see environmental change as directly related not just to human actions, such as overfishing or burning fossil fuels, but also to human interactions. The elders encourage young people to learn traditional rules and proper behavior--to act with compassion and restraint--in order to reverse negative impacts on their world. They speak not only to educate young people on the practical skills they need to survive but also on the knowing and responsive nature of the world in which they live.
Agayuliyararput/Our Way of Making Prayer
Kegginaqut, Kangiit-llu/Yup'ik Masks and the Stories They Tell
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan
Häftad, Engelska, 1996
530 kr
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Drawing on the remembrances of elders who were born in the early 1900s and saw the last masked Yup’ik dances before missionary efforts forced their decline, Agayuliyararput is a collection of first-person accounts of the rich culture surrounding Yup’ik masks. Stories by thirty-three elders from all over southwestern Alaska, presented in parallel Yup’ik and English texts, include a wealth of information about the creation and function of masks and the environment in which they flourished. The full-length, unannotated stories are complete with features of oral storytelling such as repetition and digression; the language of the English translation follows the Yup’ik idiom as closely as possible.Reminiscences about the cultural setting of masked dancing are grouped into chapters on the traditional Yup’ik ceremonial cycle, the use of masks, life in the qasgiq (communal men’s house), the supression and revival of masked dancing, maskmaking, and dance and song. Stories are grouped geographically, representing the Yukon, Kuskokwim, and coastal areas. The subjects of the stories and the masks made to accompany them are the Arctic animals, beings, and natural forces on which humans depended.This book will be treasured by the Yup’ik residents of southwestern Alaska and an international audience of linguists, folklorists, anthropologists, and art historians.
Paitarkiutenka / My Legacy to You
AvFrank "Miisaq" Andrew Sr.,Ann Fienup-Riordan
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
530 kr
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Yup'ik elders of southwest Alaska recall, “Our ancestors were never heavy with a tool kit.” They carried in their minds what they needed to live rich lives in the harsh environment of the Bering Sea coast. Frank Andrew, Sr. (1917-2006), was one of the few elders to bring this knowledge into the twenty-first century.Not only did Frank Andrew possess knowledge and wisdom--he shared it. For five years before his death he worked tirelessly with Yup'ik translators Alice Rearden and Marie Meade and anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan to document his knowledge of life on the Bering Sea coast. What he shared is specific to the Canineq (lower coastal) area at the mouth of the Kuskokwim River. When he talked about kayak building, tomcod fishing, or bird hunting, it was based on his own experience in the area surrounding Kwigillingok, where he spent his life. His unprecedented depth of knowledge and eloquent storytelling inspired this book.Paitarkiutenka / My Legacy to You is the bilingual companion volume to Yuungnaqpiallerput / The Way We Genuinely Live: Masterworks of Yup'ik Science and Survival, which gives readers a sense of the complexity and variety of Yup'ik tools and technology. Paitarkiutenka offers greater detail about working with wood, kayak construction, and coastal hunting. Stories and information on seasonal activities in the Canineq area appear here for the first time. This book acknowledges the enormous amount of information and remarkable skills that each individual needed to live life on the Bering Sea coast; it is Frank Andrew's legacy to us all.
Qaluyaarmiuni Nunamtenek Qanemciput / Our Nelson Island Stories
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
1 700 kr
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In this volume Nelson Island elders describe hundreds of traditionally important places in the landscape, from camp and village sites to tiny sloughs and deep ocean channels, contextualizing them through stories of how people interacted with them in the past and continue to know them today. The stories both provide a rich, descriptive historical record and detail the ways in which land use has changed over time.Nelson Islanders maintained a strongly Yup'ik worldview and subsistence lifestyle through the 1940s, living in small settlements and moving with the seasonal cycle of plant and animal abundances. The last sixty years have brought dramatic changes, including the concentration of people into five permanent, year-round villages. The elders have mapped significant places to help perpetuate an active relationship between the land and their people, who, despite the immobility of their villages, continue to rely on the fluctuating bounty of the Bering Sea coastal environment.
Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather
Continuity and Change on the Bering Sea Coast
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan,Alice Rearden
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
1 700 kr
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Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather is a result of nearly ten years of gatherings among Yup'ik elders to document the qanruyutet (words of wisdom) that guide their interactions with the environment. In an effort to educate their own young people as well as people outside the community, the elders discussed the practical skills necessary to live in a harsh environment, stressing the ethical and philosophical aspects of the Yup'ik relationship with the land, ocean, snow, weather, and environmental change, among many other elements of the natural world.At every gathering, at least one elder repeated the Yup'ik adage, "The world is changing following its people." The Yup'ik see environmental change as directly related not just to human actions, such as overfishing or burning fossil fuels, but also to human interactions. The elders encourage young people to learn traditional rules and proper behavior--to act with compassion and restraint--in order to reverse negative impacts on their world. They speak not only to educate young people on the practical skills they need to survive but also on the knowing and responsive nature of the world in which they live.
Agayuliyararput/Our Way of Making Prayer
Kegginaqut, Kangiit-llu/Yup'ik Masks and the Stories They Tell
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
1 697 kr
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Drawing on the remembrances of elders who were born in the early 1900s and saw the last masked Yup’ik dances before missionary efforts forced their decline, Agayuliyararput is a collection of first-person accounts of the rich culture surrounding Yup’ik masks. Stories by thirty-three elders from all over southwestern Alaska, presented in parallel Yup’ik and English texts, include a wealth of information about the creation and function of masks and the environment in which they flourished. The full-length, unannotated stories are complete with features of oral storytelling such as repetition and digression; the language of the English translation follows the Yup’ik idiom as closely as possible.Reminiscences about the cultural setting of masked dancing are grouped into chapters on the traditional Yup’ik ceremonial cycle, the use of masks, life in the qasgiq (communal men’s house), the supression and revival of masked dancing, maskmaking, and dance and song. Stories are grouped geographically, representing the Yukon, Kuskokwim, and coastal areas. The subjects of the stories and the masks made to accompany them are the Arctic animals, beings, and natural forces on which humans depended.This book will be treasured by the Yup’ik residents of southwestern Alaska and an international audience of linguists, folklorists, anthropologists, and art historians.
Agayuliyararput/Our Way of Making Prayer
Kegginaqut, Kangiit-llu/Yup''ik Masks and the Stories They Tell
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan
E-bok
Engelska, 2015
593 kr
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Drawing on the remembrances of elders who were born in the early 1900s and saw the last masked Yup’ik dances before missionary efforts forced their decline, Agayuliyararput is a collection of first-person accounts of the rich culture surrounding Yup’ik masks. Stories by thirty-three elders from all over southwestern Alaska, presented in parallel Yup’ik and English texts, include a wealth of information about the creation and function of masks and the environment in which they flourished. The full-length, unannotated stories are complete with features of oral storytelling such as repetition and digression; the language of the English translation follows the Yup’ik idiom as closely as possible.Reminiscences about the cultural setting of masked dancing are grouped into chapters on the traditional Yup’ik ceremonial cycle, the use of masks, life in the qasgiq (communal men’s house), the supression and revival of masked dancing, maskmaking, and dance and song. Stories are grouped geographically, representing the Yukon, Kuskokwim, and coastal areas. The subjects of the stories and the masks made to accompany them are the Arctic animals, beings, and natural forces on which humans depended.This book will be treasured by the Yup’ik residents of southwestern Alaska and an international audience of linguists, folklorists, anthropologists, and art historians.
Boundaries and Passages
Rule and Ritual in Yup'ik Eskimo Oral Tradition
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan
Häftad, Engelska, 1995
327 kr
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This book brings together as complete a record of traditional Yup'ik rules and rituals as is possible in the late twentieth century. Incorporating elders' recollections of the system of ruled boundaries and ritual passages that guided their parents and grandparents a century ago, Ann Fienup-Riordan brings into focus the complex, creative Yup'ik world view - expressed by ceremonial exchanges and the cycling of names, gifts, and persons - which continues to shape daily life in communities along the Bering Sea coast.
Eskimo Essays
Yup'ik Lives and How We See Them
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan
Häftad, Engelska, 1991
393 kr
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Eskimo Essays introduces the reader to important aspects of the ideology and practice of the Yup’ik Eskimos of western Alaska, past and present. The essays point the way toward a fuller recognition of how Yup’ik Eskimos differ from the popular Western image of the Eskimo that was born largely without reference to Yup’ik reality. By describing the reality of Yup’ik life, Eskimo Essays extends our understanding of Esimos in general and Yup’ik Eskimos in particular.Ann Fienup-Riordan argues that Western observers have simultaneously naturalized Eskimos as paragons of simplicity and virtue and Western imperialism. This process has often ignored Eskimo concepts of society, history, and personhood. An original assumption of similarity to Western society has profoundly affected the current Euro-American view of Eskimo history and action. Non-natives have taken an idealized Western individual, dressed that person up in polar garb, and then assumed they understood the garment’s maker. The result is a presentation of Eskimo society that often tells us more about the meaning we seek in our own. Moreover, modern Eskimos have risen to the challenge and to some extent become what we have made them.Bridging the gap between informed scholarships and popular concepts, Fienup-Riordan provides a compelling and fresh presentation of Yup’ik life-cosmology, the missionary experience, attitudes toward conservation, Eskimo art, the legal system, warfare, and ceremonies.
Hunting Tradition in a Changing World
Yup'ik Lives in Alaska Today
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
393 kr
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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.
Wise Words of the Yup'ik People
We Talk to You Because We Love You, New Edition
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
675 kr
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The Yup’ik people of southwest Alaska were among the last Arctic peoples to come into contact with non‑Natives, and as a result, Yup’ik language and many traditions remain vital into the twenty‑first century. Wise Words of the Yup’ik People documents their qanruyutait (adages, words of wisdom, and oral instructions) regarding the proper living of life. Throughout history these distinctive adages have guided the relations between men and women, parents and children, siblings and cousins, fellow villagers, visitors, strangers, and non‑Natives. Yup’ik elders have chosen to share these adages during Calista Elders Council gatherings and conventions since 1998 because of their continued relevance and power to change lives.The Calista Elders Council (now Calista Education and Culture) recently spearheaded efforts at cultural revitalization through gatherings with younger community members. By describing the content of traditional instruction as well as its central motivation-“We talk to you because we love you”-elders not only educate Yup’ik young people but also open a window into their view of the world for all of us. A new introduction explores this book’s impact over the past decade.Wise Words of the Yup’ik People will continue to serve as a valuable resource for the Yup’ik people and those who wish to learn more about their lives and values.
Yup'ik Words of Wisdom
Yupiit Qanruyutait, New Edition
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
580 kr
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This bilingual volume focuses on the teachings, experiences, and practical wisdom of expert Native orators as they instruct a younger generation about their place in the world. In carefully crafted presentations, Yup’ik elders speak about their “rules for right living”-values, beliefs, and practices-which illuminate the enduring and still-relevant foundations of their culture today. While the companion volume, Wise Words of the Yup’ik Peopleweaves together hundreds of statements by Yup’ik elders on the values that guide human relationships, Yup’ik Words of Wisdom, highlights the words of expert orators and focuses on key conversations that took place among elders and younger community members as the elders presented their perspectives on the moral underpinnings of Yup’ik social relations.The orators in this volume-including Frank Andrew from Kwigillingok, David Martin from Kipnuk, and Nelson Island elders Paul John and Thersea Moses-were raised in isolated Yup’ik communities in Alaska and were educated much like their parents and grandparents.Translated, edited, and organized for a general audience, this bilingual edition is for those who want to know not only what the elders have to say but also how they say it. A new introduction explores this book’s impact over the past decade.
Wise Words of the Yup'ik People
We Talk to You Because We Love You, New Edition
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
327 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
The Yup’ik people of southwest Alaska were among the last Arctic peoples to come into contact with non‑Natives, and as a result, Yup’ik language and many traditions remain vital into the twenty‑first century. Wise Words of the Yup’ik People documents their qanruyutait (adages, words of wisdom, and oral instructions) regarding the proper living of life. Throughout history these distinctive adages have guided the relations between men and women, parents and children, siblings and cousins, fellow villagers, visitors, strangers, and non‑Natives. Yup’ik elders have chosen to share these adages during Calista Elders Council gatherings and conventions since 1998 because of their continued relevance and power to change lives.The Calista Elders Council (now Calista Education and Culture) recently spearheaded efforts at cultural revitalization through gatherings with younger community members. By describing the content of traditional instruction as well as its central motivation-“We talk to you because we love you”-elders not only educate Yup’ik young people but also open a window into their view of the world for all of us. A new introduction explores this book’s impact over the past decade.Wise Words of the Yup’ik People will continue to serve as a valuable resource for the Yup’ik people and those who wish to learn more about their lives and values.
Yup'ik Words of Wisdom
Yupiit Qanruyutait, New Edition
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
294 kr
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This bilingual volume focuses on the teachings, experiences, and practical wisdom of expert Native orators as they instruct a younger generation about their place in the world. In carefully crafted presentations, Yup’ik elders speak about their “rules for right living”-values, beliefs, and practices-which illuminate the enduring and still-relevant foundations of their culture today. While the companion volume, Wise Words of the Yup’ik Peopleweaves together hundreds of statements by Yup’ik elders on the values that guide human relationships, Yup’ik Words of Wisdom, highlights the words of expert orators and focuses on key conversations that took place among elders and younger community members as the elders presented their perspectives on the moral underpinnings of Yup’ik social relations.The orators in this volume-including Frank Andrew from Kwigillingok, David Martin from Kipnuk, and Nelson Island elders Paul John and Thersea Moses-were raised in isolated Yup’ik communities in Alaska and were educated much like their parents and grandparents.Translated, edited, and organized for a general audience, this bilingual edition is for those who want to know not only what the elders have to say but also how they say it. A new introduction explores this book’s impact over the past decade.
Angalkut/Shamans in Yup'ik Oral Tradition
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 108 kr
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Angalkut/Shamans in Yupik Oral Tradition collects over thirty years worth of shaman stories, told as part of gatherings organized by the Calista Elders Council to document Yupik traditional knowledge. These conversations highlight the critical role angalkutplayed in Yupik lifehealing the sick, interpreting dreams and unusual experiences, requesting future abundance through masked dances and other ceremonies, protecting the lives of young children, and dealing with the dead. The book begins with an English introduction that places Yupik oral traditions in the context of shamanism in Alaska and other parts of the Arctic. Then first-person accounts presented in the original Yupik with an accompanying English translation discuss the importance of shamans and shamanism in general, good and bad shamans, and shamans as healers. Narratives from Nelson Island, Canineq, Kuskokwim River, Akulmiut, and Yukon River describe shamans as healers, shaman journeys and performances, shamans and masked dances requesting abundance, shamans and the dead, malicious shamans, shaman confrontations, becoming a shaman, and those who have shaman abilities today. A detailed glossary and references are also included. Today, not only are these angalkut gone, but so are those who witnessed and participated in their activities. Angalkut/Shamans in Yupik Oral Tradition is the first book devoted exclusively to Yupik angalkut; never before has the variety of angalkut roles been profiled in publication, including the richness of elders recollections of these individuals and their roles. There is great value in the stories they left behind. This fine-grained presentation of unique, bilingual first-person narratives is an essential resource for scholars and students interested in Yupik heritage, Yugtun language, shamanism ethnography, and Alaska Native oral traditions.
Angalkut/Shamans in Yup'ik Oral Tradition
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
613 kr
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Angalkut/Shamans in Yupik Oral Tradition collects over thirty years worth of shaman stories, told as part of gatherings organized by the Calista Elders Council to document Yupik traditional knowledge. These conversations highlight the critical role angalkutplayed in Yupik lifehealing the sick, interpreting dreams and unusual experiences, requesting future abundance through masked dances and other ceremonies, protecting the lives of young children, and dealing with the dead. The book begins with an English introduction that places Yupik oral traditions in the context of shamanism in Alaska and other parts of the Arctic. Then first-person accounts presented in the original Yupik with an accompanying English translation discuss the importance of shamans and shamanism in general, good and bad shamans, and shamans as healers. Narratives from Nelson Island, Canineq, Kuskokwim River, Akulmiut, and Yukon River describe shamans as healers, shaman journeys and performances, shamans and masked dances requesting abundance, shamans and the dead, malicious shamans, shaman confrontations, becoming a shaman, and those who have shaman abilities today. A detailed glossary and references are also included. Today, not only are these angalkut gone, but so are those who witnessed and participated in their activities. Angalkut/Shamans in Yupik Oral Tradition is the first book devoted exclusively to Yupik angalkut; never before has the variety of angalkut roles been profiled in publication, including the richness of elders recollections of these individuals and their roles. There is great value in the stories they left behind. This fine-grained presentation of unique, bilingual first-person narratives is an essential resource for scholars and students interested in Yupik heritage, Yugtun language, shamanism ethnography, and Alaska Native oral traditions.
Artists Behind the Work – Life Histories of Nick Charles, Sr., Frances Demientieff, Lena Sours, Jennie Thlunaut
AvAnn Fienup–riordan
Häftad, Engelska, 1986
208 kr
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Words of the Real People
Alaska Native Literature in Translation
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan,Lawrence D. Kaplan
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
222 kr
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Words of the Real People
Alaska Native Literature in Translation
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan,Lawrence D. Kaplan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
496 kr
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Yupiit Yuraryarait
Yup'ik Ways of Dancing
University of Alaska Press
2010
602 kr
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Yupiit Yuraryarait
Yup'ik Ways of Dancing
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan,James H. Barkerm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
363 kr
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Mission of Change in Southwest Alaska
Conversations with Father René Astruc and Paul Dixon on Their Work with Yupik People
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
352 kr
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Anguyiim Nalliini/Time of Warring
The History of Bow-and-Arrow Warfare in Southwest Alaska
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
410 kr
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Ciulirnerunak Yuuyaqunak/Do Not Live Without an Elder
The Subsistence Way of Life in Southwest Alaska
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
398 kr
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Qanemcit Amllertut/Many Stories to Tell
Tales of Humans and Animals from Southwest Alaska
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan,Alice Rearden
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
398 kr
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Akulmiut Neqait
Fish and Food of the Akulmiut
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan,Marie Meadem. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
369 kr
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Nunakun–gguq Ciutengqertut/They Say They Have Ea – Animal Essays from Southwest Alaska Alaska
AvAnn Fienup–riordan,Alice Reardenm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
523 kr
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Yungcautnguuq Nunam Qainga Tamarmi/All the Land's Surface is Medicine
Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
405 kr
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In this book, close to one hundred men and women from all over southwest Alaska share knowledge of their homeland and the plants that grow there. They speak eloquently about time spent gathering and storing plants and plant material during snow-free months, including gathering greens during spring, picking berries each summer, harvesting tubers from the caches of tundra voles, and gathering a variety of medicinal plants. The book is intended as a guide to the identification and use of edible and medicinal plants in southwest Alaska, but also as an enduring record of what Yup'ik men and women know and value about plants and the roles plants continue to play in Yup'ik lives.
Where the Echo Began
and Other Oral Traditions from Southwestern Alaska Recorded by Hans Himmelheber. Ed.
AvAnn Fienup-Riordan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2000
398 kr
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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.

Ann Fienup-Riordan – författare

Tengautuli Atkuk / The Flying Parka

Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather

Agayuliyararput/Our Way of Making Prayer

Paitarkiutenka / My Legacy to You

Qaluyaarmiuni Nunamtenek Qanemciput / Our Nelson Island Stories

Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather

Agayuliyararput/Our Way of Making Prayer

Agayuliyararput/Our Way of Making Prayer

Boundaries and Passages

Eskimo Essays

Hunting Tradition in a Changing World

Wise Words of the Yup'ik People

Yup'ik Words of Wisdom

Wise Words of the Yup'ik People

Yup'ik Words of Wisdom

Angalkut/Shamans in Yup'ik Oral Tradition

Angalkut/Shamans in Yup'ik Oral Tradition

Artists Behind the Work – Life Histories of Nick Charles, Sr., Frances Demientieff, Lena Sours, Jennie Thlunaut

Words of the Real People

Words of the Real People

Yupiit Yuraryarait

Yupiit Yuraryarait

Mission of Change in Southwest Alaska

Anguyiim Nalliini/Time of Warring

Ciulirnerunak Yuuyaqunak/Do Not Live Without an Elder

Qanemcit Amllertut/Many Stories to Tell

Akulmiut Neqait

Nunakun–gguq Ciutengqertut/They Say They Have Ea – Animal Essays from Southwest Alaska Alaska

Yungcautnguuq Nunam Qainga Tamarmi/All the Land's Surface is Medicine

Where the Echo Began