Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : my first day in Hooper : a cautionary tale for the anthropologist
  • Metaphor and allusion : discourse and metaphors from the land
  • The rivers, the mountains, the tundra, and the sea
  • 'Too many otters in that one place!' : stories of Palraayak and other water creatures
  • 'Assiituq!' : the land can be a dangerous place : understanding the importance of cautionary tales
  • Angalkuut : shamans, enemies, and other villages
  • The tale of the teakettle ghost : performative aspects of discourse
  • Anchoring memory in place : tales of Brother Oscar and the old church
  • Haunted places and their symbolic import : narratives from throughout the Yup'ik region
  • What haunts these places? : cultural encounters and narratives of resistance
  • Sentient places in a sentient world.