Agayuliyararput : kegginaqut, kangiit-llu = Our way of making prayer : Yup'ik masks and the stories they tell /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Anchorage Museum of History and Art
Other Authors: Meade, Marie, Fienup-Riordan, Ann
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : Anchorage Museum of History and Art in association with the University of Washington Press, c1996.
Subjects:
Yupik masks.
Yupik dance.
Yupik Eskimos > Rites and ceremonies.
Danses yupit.
Yupit (Inuits) > Rites et cérémonies.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Beauty & Grooming.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Yupik dance
Yupik Eskimos > Rites and ceremonies
Yupik masks
Tanz
Quelle
Maske
Jupik (Esquimaux) > Etats-Unis > Alaska > Rites et cérémonies.
Masques jupik > Etats-Unis > Alaska.
Danse jupik > Etats-Unis > Alaska.
Yupik.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments / Marie Meade
  • "Our Way of Making a Book" / Ann Fienup-Riordan
  • Yup'ik Elder Contributors
  • 1. Opening the Book
  • 2. Masks and the Traditional Ceremonial Cycle
  • 3. The Reasons Masks Were Made
  • 4. Masks and the Stories They Tell
  • 5. In the Qasgiq
  • 6. Suppression and Revival of Masked Dancing
  • 7. Making a Mask
  • 8. Presenting a Mask: Its Song and Dance
  • 9. Yukon Stories, Yukon Masks
  • 10. Kuskokwim Stories, Kuskokwim Masks
  • 11. Coastal Stories, Coastal Masks
  • Yup'ik Transcription and Translation.

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