The Living Tradition Of Yup Ik Masks

Author : Ann Fienup-Riordan,Anchorage Museum of History and Art
Publisher : Seattle : University of Washington Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Alaska
ISBN : 0295975016

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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,Anchorage Museum of History and Art
Publisher : Seattle : University of Washington Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Alaska
ISBN : OCLC:42608617

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The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks by Anonim Pdf

Organized through a collaboration among Yup'ik elders of southwestern Alaska, the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, and the Anchorage Museum Association, the Agayuliyararput (Our way of making prayer) exhibit features more than 200 masks from international collections. The masks are displayed in the context of dance performances, ceremonies, the stories they tell, and the complex cosmology of the Yup'ik people who created them.

Author : Ann Fienup-Riordan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 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
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:819274638

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Visual Repatriation and the Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks by Ann Fienup-Riordan Pdf

Author : Ann Fienup-Riordan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Ann Fienup-Riordan,Alice Rearden,Marie Meade
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,7 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.

Author : National Endowment for the Humanities. Division of Public Programs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113757533

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

Author : National Endowment for the Humanities. Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082936256

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The University of Michigan Library Newsletter by Anonim 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

Named 2001 Historian of the Year by the Alaska Historical Society 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 : Alaska Geographic Association
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780882409023

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Native Cultures in Alaska by Alaska Geographic Association Pdf

In the minds of most Americans, Native culture in Alaska amounts to Eskimos and igloos....The latest publication of the Alaska Geographic Society offers an accessible and attractive antidote to such misconceptions. Native Cultures in Alaska blends beautiful photographs with informative text to create a striking portrait of the state's diverse and dynamic indigenous population.

Author : Aron A. Crowell,Rosita Worl,Paul C. Ongtooguk,Dawn D. Biddison
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781588342706

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Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage by Aron A. Crowell,Rosita Worl,Paul C. Ongtooguk,Dawn D. Biddison Pdf

Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska features more than 200 objects representing the masterful artistry and design traditions of twenty Alaska Native peoples. Based on a collaborative exhibition created by Alaska Native communities, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, and the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, this richly illustrated volume celebrates both the long-awaited return of ancestral treasures to their native homeland and the diverse cultures in which they were created. Despite the North's transformation through globalizing change, the objects shown in these pages are interpretable within ongoing cultural frames, articulated in languges still spoken. They were made for a way of life on the land that is carried on today throughout Alaska. Dialogue with the region's First Peoples evokes past meanings but focuses equally on contemporary values, practices, and identities. Objects and narratives show how each Alaska Native nation is unique—and how all are connected. After introductions to the history of the land and its people, universal themes of “Sea, Land, Rivers,” “Family and Community,” and “Ceremony and Celebration” are explored referencing exquisite masks, parkas, beaded garments, basketry, weapons, and carvings that embody the diverse environments and practices of their makers. Accompanied by traditional stories and personal accounts by Alaska Native elders, artists, and scholars, each piece featured in Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage evokes both historical and contemporary meaning, and breathes the life of its people.

Author : James Clifford
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674726222

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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 : Ann Fienup-Riordan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803269125

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Wise Words of the Yup'ik People by Ann Fienup-Riordan Pdf

The Yup'ik people of southwestern Alaska were some of the last Arctic peoples to come into contact with non-Natives, and as a result, Yup?ik language and many traditions remain vital into the twenty-first century. Wise Words of the Yup?ik People documents their qanruyutet (adages, words of wisdom, and oral instructions) regarding the proper living of life. Throughout history, these distinctive wise words have guided the relations between men and women, parents and children, siblings and cousins, fellow villagers, visitors, strangers, and even with non-Natives. Yup?ik elders have chosen to share these wise words during Calista Elders Council gatherings and conventions since 1998 for instrumental reasons?because of their continued relevance and power to change lives. ø The Calista Elders Council, which represents some thirteen hundred Yup'ik elders, recently spearheaded efforts at cultural revitalization through gatherings with younger community members. In describing the content of traditional instruction as well as its central motivation??We talk to you because we love you??elders not only educate Yup?ik young people but also open a window into their view of the world for all of us. ø Wise Words of the Yup?ik People will serve as a valuable resource for the Yup'ik people and those who wish to learn more about their lives and values.