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The Siberian Yupik people have endured centuries of change and repression, starting with the Russian Cossacks in 1648 and extending into recent years. The twentieth century brought especially formidable challenges, including forced relocation by Russian authorities and a Cold War "ice curtain&q...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Krupnik, Igor
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Yupik Eskimos > Social life and customs.
Yupik Eskimos > Social conditions.
Yupik Eskimos.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Yupit (Inuits) > Bering, Detroit de > Moeurs et coutumes.
Yupit (Inuits) > Bering, Detroit de > Conditions sociales.
Yupit (Inuits) > Bering, Detroit de > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Yupik Eskimos > Bering Strait > Social life and customs.
Yupik Eskimos > Bering Strait > Social conditions.
Yupik Eskimos > Bering Strait > History > 20th century.
Pacific Ocean > Bering Strait.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The Siberian Yupik people have endured centuries of change and repression, starting with the Russian Cossacks in 1648 and extending into recent years. The twentieth century brought especially formidable challenges, including forced relocation by Russian authorities and a Cold War "ice curtain" that cut off the Yupik people on the mainland region of Chukotka from those on St. Lawrence Island. Yet throughout all this, the Yupik have managed to maintain their culture and identity. Igor Krupnik and Michael Chlenov spent more than thirty years studying this resilience through original fieldwor.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781602232174

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