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Faith, food, and family in a Yupik whaling community /

"For more than fifteen hundred years Yupik and proto-Yupik Eskimo peoples have lived at the site of the Alaskan village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. Their history is a record of family and kin, and of the interrelationship between those who live in Gambell and the spiritual world on which...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jolles, Carol Zane
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2002.
Colección:McLellan Bks.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"For more than fifteen hundred years Yupik and proto-Yupik Eskimo peoples have lived at the site of the Alaskan village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. Their history is a record of family and kin, and of the interrelationship between those who live in Gambell and the spiritual world on which they depend; it is a history dominated by an abiding desire for community survival."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 364 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-350) and index.
ISBN:9780295802138
0295802138