Description
Book SynopsisFor more than fifteen hundred years Yupik and proto-Yupik Eskimo people have lived at the site of the Alaskan village of Gambell on St Lawrence Island. This book views the contemporary Yupik people in terms of the beliefs and values that have contributed to the community's survival and adaptability.
Trade Review"This ethnography. . . has much to offer a wide range of students and scholars. . . . Jolle's book provides a poignant portrait of how faith, food, and family saturate the lives of St. Lawrence Islanders."
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"A careful and detailed account based on more than ten years of research on Gambell, a Yupik village on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea between Alaska and Siberia. Jolles displays sensitive insight into a remote society dependent on sea mammals for survival in her anthropological analysis of the residents' history, religion, culture, and tradition, which reveals their unique understanding of the world. . . . Those fascinated by Inuit existence will find this book an important asset."
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Where it All Takes Place: The Village of Gambell
2. Early History
3. Names and Families
4. Marriage
5. Life Passages
6. A Religious World View
7. Believing
8. Men, Women, and Food: A Subsistence Way of Life
Conclusion: The Land, the People, the Future
Appendix
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
