| Qaluyaarmiuni Nunamtenek Qanemciput / Our Nelson Island Stories Contributor(s): Fienup-Riordan, Ann (Editor), Rearden, Alice (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0295996927 ISBN-13: 9780295996929 Publisher: University of Washington Press OUR PRICE: $99.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Travel | Africa - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies |
| Dewey: 916.451 |
| LCCN: 2011005957 |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 7.5" W x 9.25" (2.54 lbs) 496 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this volume Nelson Island elders describe hundreds of traditionally important places in the landscape, from camp and village sites to tiny sloughs and deep ocean channels, contextualizing them through stories of how people interacted with them in the past and continue to know them today. The stories both provide a rich, descriptive historical record and detail the ways in which land use has changed over time. Nelson Islanders maintained a strongly Yup'ik worldview and subsistence lifestyle through the 1940s, living in small settlements and moving with the seasonal cycle of plant and animal abundances. The last sixty years have brought dramatic changes, including the concentration of people into five permanent, year-round villages. The elders have mapped significant places to help perpetuate an active relationship between the land and their people, who, despite the immobility of their villages, continue to rely on the fluctuating bounty of the Bering Sea coastal environment. |