| Telling Our Selves: Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska Contributor(s): Hensel, Chase (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195094778 ISBN-13: 9780195094770 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $113.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1996 Annotation: In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 95-31923 |
| Series: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.15" W x 9.22" (0.80 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Alaska |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing. Although ethnicity is overtly constructed in terms of either/or categories, the discourse of Bethel residents suggests that their actual concern is less with whether one is native or non-native, than with how native one is in a given context. In the interweaving of subsistence practices and subsistence discourse, ethnicity is constantly recreated. |
