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Eskimo Essays

Ann Fienup-Riordan
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Author : Ann Fienup-Riordan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0813515890

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Eskimo Essays by Ann Fienup-Riordan Pdf

This examination of the ideology and practice of the Yup'ik Eskimos of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of southwestern Alaska includes traditions, ideology, relations with Christianity, warfare, use of animals, law and order, and the non-native perception of the Yup'ik way of life.

Animism and the Question of Life

Istvan Praet
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Author : Istvan Praet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134500666

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The central purpose of this book is to help change the terms of the debate on animism, a classic theme in anthropology. It combines some of the finest ethnographic material currently available (including firsthand research on the Chachi of Ecuador) with an unusually broad geographic scope (the Americas, Asia, and Africa). Edward B. Tylor originally defined animism as the first phase in the development of religion. The heyday of cultural evolutionism may be over, but his basic conception is commonly assumed to remain valid in at least one respect: there is still a broad consensus that everything is alive within animism, or at least that more things are alive than a modern scientific observer would allow for (e.g., clouds, rivers, mountains) It is considered self-evident that animism is based on a kind of exaggeration: its adherents are presumed to impute life to this, that and the other in a remarkably generous manner. Against the prevailing consensus, this book argues that if animism has one outstanding feature, it is its peculiar restrictiveness. Animistic notions of life are astonishingly uniform across the globe, insofar as they are restricted rather than exaggerated. In the modern Western cosmology, life overlaps with the animate. Within animism, however, life is always conditional, and therefore tends to be limited to one’s kin, one’s pets and perhaps the plants in one’s garden. Thus it emerges that "our" modern biological concept of life is stranger than generally thought.

Native Christians

Aparecida Vilaça
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Author : Aparecida Vilaça
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317089865

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Native Christians reflects on the modes and effects of Christianity among indigenous peoples of the Americas drawing on comparative analysis of ethnographic and historical cases. Christianity in this region has been part of the process of conquest and domination, through the association usually made between civilizing and converting. While Catholic missions have emphasized the 'civilizing' process, teaching the Indians the skills which they were expected to exercise within the context of a new societal model, the Protestants have centered their work on promoting a deep internal change, or 'conversion', based on the recognition of God's existence. Various ethnologists and scholars of indigenous societies have focused their interest on understanding the nature of the transformations produced by the adoption of Christianity. The contributors in this volume take native thought as the starting point, looking at the need to relativize these transformations. Each author examines different ethnographic cases throughout the Americas, both historical and contemporary, enabling the reader to understand the indigenous points of view in the processes of adoption and transformation of new practices, objects, ideas and values.

Qanemcit Amllertut/Many Stories to Tell

Alice Rearden,Ann Fienup-Riordan
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Author : Alice Rearden,Ann Fienup-Riordan
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781602233362

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Qanemcit Amllertut/Many Stories to Tell by Alice Rearden,Ann Fienup-Riordan Pdf

"This bilingual collection shares new translations of old stories recorded over the last four decades though interviews with Yup’ik elders from throughout southwest Alaska. Some are true qulirat (traditional tales), while others are recent. Some are well known, like the adventures of the wily Raven, while others are rarely told. All are part of a great narrative tradition, shared and treasured by Yup’ik people into the present day. The elders and translators who contributed to this collection embrace the great irony of oral traditions: that the best way to keep these stories is to give them away. By retelling these stories, they hope to create a future in which the Yup’ik view of the world will be both recognized and valued."--Provided by publisher.

Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic

Timo Koivurova,Else Grete Broderstad,Dorothée Cambou,Dalee Dorough,Florian Stammler
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Author : Timo Koivurova,Else Grete Broderstad,Dorothée Cambou,Dalee Dorough,Florian Stammler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000283938

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Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic by Timo Koivurova,Else Grete Broderstad,Dorothée Cambou,Dalee Dorough,Florian Stammler Pdf

This handbook brings together the expertise of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars to offer a comprehensive overview of issues surrounding the well-being, self-determination and sustainability of Indigenous peoples in the Arctic. Offering multidisciplinary insights from leading figures, this handbook highlights Indigenous challenges, approaches and solutions to pressing issues in Arctic regions, such as a warming climate and the loss of biodiversity. It furthers our understanding of the Arctic experience by analyzing how people not only survive but thrive in the planet’s harshest climate through their innovation, ingenuity and agency to tackle rapidly changing environments and evolving political, social, economic and cultural conditions. The book is structured into three distinct parts that cover key topics in recent and future research with Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic. The first part examines the diversity of Indigenous peoples and their cultural expressions in the different Arctic states. It also focuses on the well-being of Indigenous peoples in the Arctic regions. The second part relates to the identities and livelihoods that Indigenous peoples in Arctic regions derive from the resources in their environments. This interconnection between resources and people’s identities underscores their entitlements to use their lands and resources. The third and final part provides insights into the political involvement of Indigenous peoples from local all the way to the international level and their right to self-determination and some of the recent related topics in this field. This book offers a novel contribution to Arctic studies, empowering Indigenous research for the future and rebuilding the image of Indigenous peoples as proactive participants, signaling their pivotal role in the co-production of knowledge. It will appeal to scholars and students of law, political sciences, geography, anthropology, Arctic studies and environmental studies, as well as policy-makers and professionals.

Hunting Tradition in a Changing World

Ann Fienup-Riordan
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Author : Ann Fienup-Riordan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,9 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.

Anguyiim Nalliini/Time of Warring

Ann Fienup-Riordan
Anguyiim Nalliini Time of Warring Book PDF

Author : Ann Fienup-Riordan
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781602232914

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Anguyiim Nalliini/Time of Warring by Ann Fienup-Riordan Pdf

In this powerful new book, long time Yup'ik researcher Ann Fienup-Riordan teams again with Alice Rearden to bring a long-ignored oral history of warfare to light. Time of Warring combines Yup'ik oral accounts and written records to understand the dramatic history of the bow-and-arrow wars fought in southwest Alaska between 1300 and 1800 AD. Yet warfare is not the only story being told. The book also explores the cultural history of violence, retribution, and ultimately peaceful coexistence. These narratives reveal the origins of place names and architectural practices in their cultural and historical context. And great warriors and heroic women of the past are revealed and discussed. The book represents thirty years of research, discussions, and recordings with over one hundred Yup'ik men and omen--elder historians of the highest caliber. After extensive summary and contextualization from Fienup-Riordan, facing-page translations give the Yup'ik elders and culture bearers the space to tell the stories in their own words. Time of Warring is an important chapter that has long been missing in the history of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta's people.

Encyclopedia of the Arctic

Mark Nuttall
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Author : Mark Nuttall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2306 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-23
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781136786808

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Encyclopedia of the Arctic by Mark Nuttall Pdf

With detailed essays on the Arctic's environment, wildlife, climate, history, exploration, resources, economics, politics, indigenous cultures and languages, conservation initiatives and more, this Encyclopedia is the only major work and comprehensive reference on this vast, complex, changing, and increasingly important part of the globe. Including 305 maps. This Encyclopedia is not only an interdisciplinary work of reference for all those involved in teaching or researching Arctic issues, but a fascinating and comprehensive resource for residents of the Arctic, and all those concerned with global environmental issues, sustainability, science, and human interactions with the environment.

Screening Culture

Heather Norris Nicholson
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Author : Heather Norris Nicholson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0739105213

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Screening Culture by Heather Norris Nicholson Pdf

The lives of Indigenous peoples have long been framed for the outside world by others' cinematic gaze. But during the past thirty years, North America's Indigenous image-makers, particularly in Canada, have used the changing technologies of film, video, television, and computer to present their peoples' histories, identities, and perspectives. This edited collection of essays, conversations, and interviews combines Indigenous and non-Indigenous voices as it sets changing representations of Indigenous people on screen against broader socio-cultural, ideological, and economic considerations.

Of Religion and Empire

Robert Geraci,Michael Khodarkovsky
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Author : Robert Geraci,Michael Khodarkovsky
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501724305

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Of Religion and Empire by Robert Geraci,Michael Khodarkovsky Pdf

Russia's ever-expanding imperial boundaries encompassed diverse peoples and religions. Yet Russian Orthodoxy remained inseparable from the identity of the Russian empire-state, which at different times launched conversion campaigns not only to "save the souls" of animists and bring deviant Orthodox groups into the mainstream, but also to convert the empire's numerous Muslims, Buddhists, Jews, Catholics, and Uniates. This book is the first to investigate the role of religious conversion in the long history of Russian state building. How successful were the Church and the state in proselytizing among religious minorities? How were the concepts of Orthodoxy and Russian nationality shaped by the religious diversity of the empire? What was the impact of Orthodox missionary efforts on the non-Russian peoples, and how did these peoples react to religious pressure? In chapters that explore these and other questions, this book provides geographical coverage from Poland and European Russia to the Caucasus, Central Asia, Siberia, and Alaska. The editors' introduction and conclusion place the twelve original essays in broad historical context and suggest patterns in Russian attitudes toward religion that range from attempts to forge a homogeneous identity to tolerance of complexity and diversity.

Historical Dictionary of the Inuit

Pamela R. Stern
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Author : Pamela R. Stern
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810879126

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Historical Dictionary of the Inuit by Pamela R. Stern Pdf

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Inuit provides a history of the indigenous peoples of North Alaska, arctic Canada including Labrador, and Greenland. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Inuits.

Eskimos and Explorers

Wendell H. Oswalt
Eskimos and Explorers Book PDF

Author : Wendell H. Oswalt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803286139

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Eskimos and Explorers by Wendell H. Oswalt Pdf

Corrects misconceptions about Eskimo life, analyzes early accounts by European explorers, and evaluates the impact these explorers had on Eskimo culture

Alaska

Claus M. Naske,Herman E. Slotnick
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Author : Claus M. Naske,Herman E. Slotnick
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806186139

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Alaska by Claus M. Naske,Herman E. Slotnick Pdf

The largest by far of the fifty states, Alaska is also the state of greatest mystery and diversity. And, as Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick show in this comprehensive survey, the history of Alaska’s peoples and the development of its economy have matched the diversity of its land- and seascapes. Alaska: A History begins by examining the region’s geography and the Native peoples who inhabited it for thousands of years before the first Europeans arrived. The Russians claimed northern North America by right of discovery in 1741. During their occupation of “Russian America” the region was little more than an outpost for fur hunters and traders. When the czar sold the territory to the United States in 1867, nobody knew what to do with “Seward’s Folly.” Mainland America paid little attention to the new acquisition until a rush of gold seekers flooded into the Yukon Territory. In 1906 Congress granted Alaska Territory a voteless delegate and in 1912 gave it a territorial legislature. Not until 1959, however, was Alaska’s long-sought goal of statehood realized. During World War II, Alaska’s place along the great circle route from the United States to Asia firmly established its military importance, which was underscored during the Cold War. The developing military garrison brought federal money and many new residents. Then the discovery of huge oil and natural-gas deposits gave a measure of economic security to the state. Alaska: A History provides a full chronological survey of the region’s and state’s history, including the precedent-setting Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, which compensated Native Americans for their losses; the effect of the oil industry and the trans-Alaska pipeline on the economy; the Exxon Valdez oil spill; and Alaska politics through the early 2000s.

Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission

Martha Frederiks,Dorottya Nagy
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Author : Martha Frederiks,Dorottya Nagy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004399594

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Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission by Martha Frederiks,Dorottya Nagy Pdf

This selection of texts introduces students and researchers to the multi- and interdisciplinary field of mission history. The four parts of this book acquaint the readers with methodological considerations and recurring themes in the academic study of the history of mission. Part one revolves around methods, part two documents approaches, while parts three and four consist of thematic clusters, such as mission and language, medical mission, mission and education, women and mission, mission and politics, and mission and art.Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission is suitable for course-work and other educational purposes.

A Yupiaq Worldview

Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley
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Author : Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478609216

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A Yupiaq Worldview by Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley Pdf

Oscar Kawagley is a man of two worlds, walking the sometimes bewildering line between traditional Yupiaq culture and the Westernized Yupiaq life of today. In this study, Kawagley follows both memories of his Yupiaq grandmother, who raised him with the stories of the Bear Woman and respectful knowledge of the reciprocity of nature, and his own education in science as it is taught in Western schools. Kawagley is a man who hears the elders' voices in Alaska and knows how to look for the weather and to use the land and its creatures with the most delicate care. In a call to unite the two parts of his own and modern Yupiaq history, Kawagley proposes a way of teaching that incorporates all ways of knowing available in Yupiaq and Western science. He has traveled a long journey, but it ends where it began, in a fishing camp in southwestern Alaska, a home for his heart and spirit. The second edition examines changes that have impacted the Yupiaq and other Alaska Native communities over the last ten years, including implementation of cultural standards in indigenous education and the emergence of a holistic approach in the sciences.