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

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"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.
Temas:
Yupik Eskimos > Alaska > Gambell.
Yupik Eskimos > Food > Alaska > Gambell.
Yupik Eskimos > Alaska > Gambell > Religion.
Whaling > Alaska > Gambell.
Yupit (Inuits) > Alaska > Gambell.
Yupit (Inuits) > Alimentation > Alaska > Gambell.
Yupit (Inuits) > Alaska > Gambell > Religion.
Baleines > Chasse > Alaska > Gambell.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Whaling.
Yupik Eskimos.
Yupik Eskimos > Religion.
Religion
Subsistenzwirtschaft
Verwandtschaftssystem
Inuits > États-Unis > Alaska (États-Unis)
Baleines > Chasse > États-Unis > Alaska (États-Unis)
Alaska > Gambell.
Yupik.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction [Yupik Eskimos, Inuit, Native or Aboriginal peoples]
  • 2. Where It All Takes Place: The Village of Gambell
  • 3. Early History
  • 4. Names and Families
  • 5. Marriage
  • 6. Life Passages [death, charms, pregnancy and birth, names & naming, sickness
  • illness, health]
  • 7. A Religious World View
  • 8. Believing [traditional practices, Christianity]
  • 9. Men, Women, and Food: A Subsistence Way of Life [hunting, fishing, foraging]
  • 10. Conclusion: The Land, the People, the Future.

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