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Yupik Transitions
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 fieldwork. In Yupik Transitions, they
present a compelling portrait of a tenacious people and place in
transition-an essential portrait as the fast pace of the newest
century threatens to erase their way of life forever.
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Tengautuli Atkuk / The Flying Parka
Parkas are part of a living tradition in southwest Alaska. Some
are ornamented with tassels, beads, and elaborate stitching; others
are simpler fur or birdskin garments. Although fewer fancy parkas
are sewn today, many people still wear those made for them by their
mothers and other relatives.
\"Parka-making\" conversations touch on every aspect of Yup'ik
life-child rearing, marriage partnerships, ceremonies and masked
dances, traditional oral instructions, and much more. In The
Flying Parka , more than fifty Yup'ik men and women share
sewing techniques and \"parka stories,\" speaking about the
significance of different styles, the details of family designs,
and the variety of materials used in creating these functional and
culturally important garments.
Based on nearly two decades of conversations with Yup'ik sewing
groups and visits to the National Museum of the American Indian and
the National Museum of Natural History, this volume documents the
social importance of parkas, the intricacies of their construction,
and their exceptional beauty. It features over 170 historical and
contemporary images, full bilingual versions of six parka stories,
and a glossary in Yup'ik and English.
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Terminal freeze : a novel
A group of scientists undertakes an expedition to Alaska's Federal Wilderness Zone to study the effects of global warming. The expedition changes suddenly when the group heads out on a routine foray into a glacial ice cave and makes an astonishing find.
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Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America
This volume presents the up-to-date results of investigations into the Asian origins of the only two languages families of North America, Eskaleut and Na-Dene, that are widely acknowledged as having likely genetic links in northern Asia.
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Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather
Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather is a result of nearly ten years of gatherings among Yup'ik elders to document the qanruyutet (words of wisdom) that guide their interactions with the environment. In an effort to educate their own young people as well as people outside the community, the elders discussed the practical skills necessary to live in a harsh environment, stressing the ethical and philosophical aspects of the Yup'ik relationship with the land, ocean, snow, weather, and environmental change, among many other elements of the natural world.
At every gathering, at least one elder repeated the Yup'ik adage, \"The world is changing following its people.\" The Yup'ik see environmental change as directly related not just to human actions, such as overfishing or burning fossil fuels, but also to human interactions. The elders encourage young people to learn traditional rules and proper behavior--to act with compassion and restraint--in order to reverse negative impacts on their world. They speak not only to educate young people on the practical skills they need to survive but also on the knowing and responsive nature of the world in which they live.
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Whale snow
At the first whaling feast of the season, a young Inupiat boy learns about the importance of the bowhead whale to his people and their culture. Includes facts about the Inupiat and the bowhead whale.
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Kodiak Kreol
From the 1780s to the 1820s, Kodiak Island, the first capital of Imperial Russia's only overseas colony, was inhabited by indigenous Alutiiq people and colonized by Russians. Together, they established an ethnically mixed \"kreol\" community. Against the backdrop of the fur trade, the missionary work of the Russian Orthodox Church, and competition among Pacific colonial powers, Gwenn A. Miller brings to light the social, political, and economic patterns of life in the settlement, making clear that Russia's modest colonial effort off the Alaskan coast fully depended on the assistance of Alutiiq people.
In this context, Miller argues, the relationships that developed between Alutiiq women and Russian men were critical keys to the initial success of Russia's North Pacific venture. Although Russia's Alaskan enterprise began some two centuries after other European powers-Spain, England, Holland, and France-started to colonize North America, many aspects of the contacts between Russians and Alutiiq people mirror earlier colonial episodes: adaptation to alien environments, the \"discovery\" and exploitation of natural resources, complicated relations between indigenous peoples and colonizing Europeans, attempts by an imperial state to moderate those relations, and a web of Christianizing practices. Russia's Pacific colony, however, was founded on the cusp of modernity at the intersection of earlier New World forms of colonization and the bureaucratic age of high empire. Miller's attention to the coexisting intimacy and violence of human connections on Kodiak offers new insights into the nature of colonialism in a little-known American outpost of European imperial power.
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