Faith, food, and family in a Yupik whaling community /
"For more than fifteen hundred years Yupik and proto-Yupik Eskimo peoples have lived at the site of the Alaskan village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. Their history is a record of family and kin, and of the interrelationship between those who live in Gambell and the spiritual world on which...
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| Language: | English |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
©2002
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| Series: | McLellan Bks
McLellan Bks |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction [Yupik Eskimos, Inuit, Native or Aboriginal peoples]
- 2. Where It All Takes Place: The Village of Gambell
- 3. Early History
- 4. Names and Families
- 5. Marriage
- 6. Life Passages [death, charms, pregnancy and birth, names & naming, sickness
- illness, health]
- 7. A Religious World View
- 8. Believing [traditional practices, Christianity]
- 9. Men, Women, and Food: A Subsistence Way of Life [hunting, fishing, foraging]
- 10. Conclusion: The Land, the People, the Future