Agayuliyararput Our Way Of Making Prayer

Author : Ann Fienup-Riordan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295998664

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Agayuliyararput/Our Way of Making Prayer by Ann Fienup-Riordan Pdf

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 from all over southwestern Alaska, presented in parallel Yup’ik and English texts, include a wealth of information about the creation and function of masks and the environment in which they flourished. The full-length, unannotated stories are complete with features of oral storytelling such as repetition and digression; the language of the English translation follows the Yup’ik idiom as closely as possible. Reminiscences about the cultural setting of masked dancing are grouped into chapters on the traditional Yup’ik ceremonial cycle, the use of masks, life in the qasgiq (communal men’s house), the supression and revival of masked dancing, maskmaking, and dance and song. Stories are grouped geographically, representing the Yukon, Kuskokwim, and coastal areas. The subjects of the stories and the masks made to accompany them are the Arctic animals, beings, and natural forces on which humans depended. This book will be treasured by the Yup’ik residents of southwestern Alaska and an international audience of linguists, folklorists, anthropologists, and art historians.

Author : James Clifford
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674727281

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Returns by James Clifford Pdf

Returns explores homecomings--the ways people recover and renew their roots. Engaging with indigenous histories of survival and transformation, James Clifford opens fundamental questions about where we are going, separately and together, in a globalizing, but not homogenizing, world. It was once widely assumed that tribal societies were destined to disappear. Sooner or later, irresistible economic and political forces would complete the destruction begun by culture contact and colonialism. But aboriginal groups persist, a reality that complicates familiar narratives of modernization. History is a multidirectional process where the word "indigenous," long associated with primitivism and localism, takes on unexpected meanings. In these probing essays, native people in California, Alaska, and Oceania are shown to be agents, not victims, struggling within and against dominant forms of cultural identity and economic power. Their returns to the land, performances of heritage, and diasporic ties are strategies for moving forward, ways to articulate what can paradoxically be called "traditional futures." With inventiveness and pragmatism, often against the odds, indigenous people are forging original pathways in a tangled, open-ended modernity. Third in a series that includes The Predicament of Culture and Routes, this volume continues Clifford's signature exploration of intercultural representations, travels, and now returns.

Author : National Endowment for the Humanities. Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN : UIUC:30112041283034

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NEH Exhibitions Today by National Endowment for the Humanities. Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations Pdf

Author : National Endowment for the Humanities. Division of Public Programs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN : IND:30000050613177

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NEH Exhibitions Today by National Endowment for the Humanities. Division of Public Programs Pdf

Author : Ann Fienup-Riordan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813528054

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Hunting Tradition in a Changing World by Ann Fienup-Riordan Pdf

The Yupiit in southwestern Alaska are members of the larger family of Inuit cultures. Including more than 20,000 individuals in seventy villages, the Yupiit continue to engage in traditional hunting activities, carefully following the seasonal shifts in the environment they know so well. During the twentieth century, especially after the construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, the Yup'ik people witnessed and experienced explosive cultural changes. Anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan explores how these subarctic hunters engage in a "hunt" for history, to make connections within their own communities and between them and the larger world. She turns to the Yupiit themselves, joining her essays with eloquent narratives by individual Yupiit, which illuminate their hunting traditions in their own words. To highlight the ongoing process of cultural negotiation, Fienup-Riordan provides vivid examples: How the Yupiit use metaphor to teach both themselves and others about their past and present lives; how they maintain their cultural identity, even while moving away from native villages; and how they worked with museums in the "Lower 48" on an exhibition of Yup'ik ceremonial masks. Ann Fienup-Riordan has published many books on Yup'ik history and oral tradition, including Eskimo Essays: Yup'ik Lives and How We See Them, The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks and Boundaries and Passages. She has lived with and written about the Yupiit for twenty-five years.

Author : Timothy Archambault,Elaine Keillor,John M. H. Kelly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216121534

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Encyclopedia of Native American Music of North America by Timothy Archambault,Elaine Keillor,John M. H. Kelly Pdf

This book is a one-stop reference resource for the vast variety of musical expressions of the First Peoples' cultures of North America, both past and present. Encyclopedia of Native American Music of North America documents the surprisingly varied musical practices among North America's First Peoples, both historically and in the modern context. It supplies a detailed yet accessible and approachable overview of the substantial contributions and influence of First Peoples that can be appreciated by both native and nonnative audiences, regardless of their familiarity with musical theory. The entries address how ethnomusicologists with Native American heritage are revolutionizing approaches to the discipline, and showcase how musicians with First Peoples' heritage are influencing modern musical forms including native flute, orchestral string playing, gospel, and hip hop. The work represents a much-needed academic study of First Peoples' musical cultures—a subject that is of growing interest to Native Americans as well as nonnative students and readers.

Author : Christina Pratt
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1404210407

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An Encyclopedia of Shamanism Volume 1 by Christina Pratt Pdf

Shamanism can be defined as the practice of initiated shamans who are distinguished by their mastery of a range of altered states of consciousness. Shamanism arises from the actions the shaman takes in non-ordinary reality and the results of those actions in ordinary reality. It is not a religion, yet it demands spiritual discipline and personal sacrifice from the mature shaman who seeks the highest stages of mystical development.

Author : Jessica Bissett Perea
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190869137

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Sound Relations by Jessica Bissett Perea Pdf

Sound Relations delves into histories of Inuit musical life in Alaska to trace the ways in which sound is integral to self-determination and sovereignty. Offering radical and relational ways of listening to Inuit performances across genres--from hip hop to Christian hymnody and traditional drumsongs to funk and R&B --author Jessica Bissett Perea shows how Indigenous ways of musicking amplify possibilities for more just and equitable futures.

Author : Christina Pratt
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1404210415

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An Encyclopedia of Shamanism Volume 2 by Christina Pratt Pdf

Shamanism can be defined as the practice of initiated shamans who are distinguished by their mastery of a range of altered states of consciousness. Shamanism arises from the actions the shaman takes in non-ordinary reality and the results of those actions in ordinary reality. It is not a religion, yet it demands spiritual discipline and personal sacrifice from the mature shaman who seeks the highest stages of mystical development.

Author : Alison Kay Brown,Laura Lynn Peers
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802090065

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Pictures Bring Us Messages by Alison Kay Brown,Laura Lynn Peers Pdf

In 1925, Beatrice Blackwood of the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum took thirty-three photographs of Kainai people on the Blood Indian Reserve in Alberta as part of an anthropological project. In 2001, staff from the museum took copies of these photographs back to the Kainai and worked with community members to try to gain a better understanding of Kainai perspectives on the images. 'Pictures Bring Us Messages' is about that process, about why museum professionals and archivists must work with such communities, and about some of the considerations that need to be addressed when doing so. Exploring the meanings that historic photographs have for source communities, Alison K. Brown, Laura Peers, and members of the Kainai Nation develop and demonstrate culturally appropriate ways of researching, curating, archiving, accessing, and otherwise using museum and archival collections. They describe the process of relationship building that has been crucial to the research and the current and future benefits of this new relationship. While based in Canada, the dynamics of the 'Pictures Bring Us Messages' project is relevant to indigenous peoples and heritage institutions around the world.

Author : Alfred Kentigern Siewers
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611485257

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Re-Imagining Nature by Alfred Kentigern Siewers Pdf

Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics explores new horizons in environmental studies, which consider communication and meaning as core definitions of ecological life, essential to deep sustainability. It considers landscape as narrative, and applies theoretical frameworks in eco-phenomenology and ecosemiotics to literary, historical, and philosophical study of the relationship between text and landscape. It considers in particular examples and lessons to be drawn from case studies of medieval and Native American cultures, to illustrate in an applied way the promise of environmental humanities today. In doing so, it highlights an environmental future for the humanities, on the cutting edge of cultural endeavor today.

Author : Ann Fienup-Riordan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Yup'ik Eskimos
ISBN : OCLC:1419330503

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The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks by Ann Fienup-Riordan Pdf

Author : Ann Fienup-Riordan,Anchorage Museum of History and Art
Publisher : Seattle : University of Washington Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 0295975237

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The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks by Ann Fienup-Riordan,Anchorage Museum of History and Art Pdf

For the Yup'ik people of southwestern Alaska, masked dancing has long been a focal point of ceremonial activity. Performed traditionally inside the qasaiq (communal men's house) during festivals, the dances feature face and finger masks that make visible the world of helping spirits and extraordinary beings, and are specially made to tell particular stories. Although masks are infrequently used today, elders still remember their powerful presence and increasingly appreciate them as touchstones of cultural pride - as agayuliyararput, "our way of making prayer". Often used by shamans to facilitate communication and movement between worlds (human and animal, the living and the dead), Yup'ik masks usually were discarded after use. Specimens first found their way into museum collections via nineteenth-century traders and collectors working along the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers, and soon were displayed internationally. The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks brings together masks from museum and private collections all over the world and presents them in their native context. Ann Fienup Riordan describes the natural world of southwestern Alaska and the rich ceremonial life that evolved there to acknowledge and honor the many beings that made possible the sustenance of human life in a precariously balanced environment. Chapters arranged geographically describe the world's major Yup'ik mask collectors and collections and the circumstances that made each unique. The voices of Yup'ik elders are present throughout the text, recounting stories, describing traditional Yup'ik life, and responding to particular masks.

Author : Ann Fienup-Riordan
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781602231610

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Mission of Change in Southwest Alaska by Ann Fienup-Riordan Pdf

Mission of Change is an oral history describing various types of change—political, social, cultural, and religious—as seen through the eyes of Father Astruc and Paul Dixon, non-Natives who dedicated their lives to working with the Yup’ik people. Their stories are framed by the an analytic history of regional changes, together with current anthropological theory on the nature of cultural change and the formation of cultural identity. The book presents a subtle and emotionally moving account of the region and the roles of two men, both of whom view issues from a Catholic perspective yet are closely attuned to and involved with changes in the Yup’ik community.

Author : Ann Fienup-Riordan,Alice Rearden,Marie Meade
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803269170

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Yup'ik Words of Wisdom by Ann Fienup-Riordan,Alice Rearden,Marie Meade Pdf

This bilingual volume focuses on the teachings, experience, and practical wisdom of expert Native orators as they instruct a younger generation about their place in the world. In carefully crafted presentations, Yup?ik elders speak about their "rules for right living"?values, beliefs, and practices?which illuminate the enduring and still relevant foundations of their culture today. While the companion volume Wise Words of the Yup'ik People weaves together hundreds of statements by Yup?ik elders on the values that guide human relationships, Yup?ik Words of Wisdom highlights the words of expert orators and focuses on key conversations that took place among elders and younger community members as the elders presented their perspectives on the moral underpinnings of Yup?ik social relations. ø The orators in this volume?including Frank Andrew from Kwigillingok, David Martin from Kipnuk, and Nelson Island elders Paul John and Thersea Moses?were raised in isolated Yup'ik communities in southeastern Alaska and were educated much like their parents and grandparents. ø Translated, edited, and organized for a general audience, this bilingual edition is for those who want to know not only what the elders have to say but also how they say it.