Format:
1 online resource (425 pages)
ISBN:
9781602232174
Content:
The Siberian Yupik people have endured centuries of change and repression, starting with the Russian Cossacks in 1648 and extending into recent years. The twentieth century brought especially formidable challenges, including forced relocation by Russian authorities and a Cold War "ice curtain" that cut off the Yupik people on the mainland region of Chukotka from those on St. Lawrence Island. Yet throughout all this, the Yupik have managed to maintain their culture and identity. Igor Krupnik and Michael Chlenov spent more than thirty years studying this resilience through original fieldwork. In Yupik Transitions, they present a compelling portrait of a tenacious people and place in transition-an essential portrait as the fast pace of the newest century threatens to erase their way of life forever.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Maps -- Museum and Institutional Acronymns -- Foreword-Ernest S. Burch, Jr. -- Prologue: 1987 -- Preface: 2011-Igor Krupnik -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Contact-Traditional Society, 1900-1923 -- Chapter 2. The "Olden Times," 1850-1900 -- Chapter 3. The Yupik Social System: A Model -- Chapter 4. Along the Shores of Yupik Land in Asia -- Chapter 5. Community Affairs -- Chapter 6. Family and Kinship -- Chapter 7. "Upstreaming": Lifetime of the Yupik Social System -- Chapter 8. The New Life Begins, 1923-1933 -- Chapter 9. Collective Farm Era, 1933-1955 -- Chapter 10. The End of "Eskimo Land," 1955-1960 -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Glossary -- References -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781602232167
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781602232167
Language:
English
Keywords:
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