Our Words Put to Paper: Akuzilleput Igaqullghet (Arctic Studies Center Contibutions to Circumpolar Anthropolgy, 3)
A sourcebook on St. Lawrence Island Yupik heritage and history, bringing together oral tradition and research materials to trace lines of cultural continuity.
Work Information
A sourcebook that puts Yupik memory and history onto the page.
By linking scholarship and local knowledge, the book reconstructs island history through language, photographs, and records. It functions both as ethnographic documentation and as a vessel for community memory.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Arctic Studies Center
- Published
- 2004-08-15
- Pages
- 464 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 20 x 15 x 2 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780967342931
- ISBN-10
- 0967342937
- Price
- 13921 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Social Sciences/Specific Demographics/Native American Studies
The St. Lawrence Island Yupik population, sitting between the US and Russia, has borrowed culturally and linguistically from both. Here, the combining of historical documents with present day elders stories bridges memories with traditional knowledge never previously shared in writing. It deals with such topics as: pre-Christian festivals, birth and death rituals, famines and epidemics and reindeer herding, among many others.
Igor Krupnik is an archaeologist at the Arctic Studies Center-Smithsonian Institution.