ISBN:
9780195344677
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (233 p)
Series Statement:
Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
Series Statement:
Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics Ser v.5
Parallel Title:
Print version Hensel, Chase Telling Our Selves : Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
Yupik Eskimos ; Social conditions
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Abstract:
Contents -- Introduction -- Overview -- Why Bethel? -- Subsistence and Discourse -- Subsistence as an Economic Activity? -- Deconstructing the Economic Analysis of Subsistence -- Negotiated Gender and Ethnicity -- Mutual Influences -- Fieldwork -- CHAPTER 1: Ethnographic Background and Post-Contact History of the Area -- Jigging for Pike -- Introduction -- Geology and Topography of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta -- Wildlife -- Local Villages -- Bethel -- Subsistence: Past, Present, and Future -- Traditional Housing and Gender Roles -- Traditional Yup'ik Beliefs
Abstract:
Early Twentieth-Century Seasonal Rounds -- CHAPTER 2: Contemporary Practices and Ideologies -- Drift Netting for King Salmon -- Introduction -- Changes in Migration Patterns and Resource Use -- Changing Technologies and Techniques of Subsistence -- Changes in Preservation Techniques and Utilization -- Trade, Contact, and Changing Local Diets -- Contemporary Seasonal Rounds in Lower Kuskokwim Villages -- Subsistence Calendar -- Contemporary Yup'ik Gender and Family Roles and Subsistence -- Subsistence As An Integrated Activity -- Subsistence Practices in Bethel
Abstract:
Contemporary Yup'ik Ideologies About Hunting and Fishing -- Non-Native Ideologies About Hunting and Fishing -- Fish and Game Stocks to Support Future Subsistence in Bethel -- Regulating Subsistence -- CHAPTER 3: Subsistence, Identity, and Meaning -- Cutting Salmon for Drying and Smoking -- Introduction -- Creating and Maintaining Identity -- Boundaries and Boundary Marking -- Boundaries, Stereotypes, and Practice -- Stereotypes of Inuit: Historical and Contemporary Views -- Non-Native Envy of Subsistence Skills and Subsistence as an Identity Marker
Abstract:
Yup'ik Practice as It Affects Non-Native Practice -- CHAPTER 4: Subsistence as an Identity Marker -- Picking Blueberries -- Subsistence as a Marker for a Yup'ik Identity -- Subsistence as a Marker for a Non-Native Rural Alaskan Identity -- Talk of Practice for Yupiit and Non-Natives -- Specific Subsistence Practices as Markers of Identity -- CHAPTER 5: Development and the Marking of Gender and Ethnicity -- My First Memorable Steambath -- Introduction -- Nondifferential Effects of Cultural Change -- History of Wage Labor -- The Gendered Construction of Work -- Changes in Yup'ik Gender Spaces
Abstract:
The Steambath as an Institution -- Changes in Gender Relations and Power -- Outmarriage Reexamined -- The Continuing Symbolic Importance of Subsistence -- Gender Differences, Discourse Similarities -- CHAPTER 6: Yup'ik Gourmands: Food and Ethnicity -- Setting a Winter Net Under the Ice for Whitefish -- Checking the Net -- Eating for Pleasure Versus Eating to Survive -- Yup'ik ""Cooking"" -- Changing Attitudes and Diets -- Food as an Identity Marker -- CHAPTER 7: Subsistence Discourse as Practice -- Ptarmigan Hunting by Snow Machine -- Introduction -- Practice/Structuration Theory
Abstract:
Family Systems Theory
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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