For 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. Their history is a record of family and kin, and of the interrelationship between those who live in Gambell and the spiritual world on which they depend; it is a history dominated by an abiding desire for community survival. Relying on oral history blended with ethnography and ethnohistory, Carol Zane Jolles views the contemporary Yupik people in terms of the enduring beliefs and values that have contributed to the community's survival and adaptability. She draws on extensive interviews with villagers, archival records, and scholarly studies, as well as on her own ten years of fieldwork in Gambell and the wisdom of Yupik elder advisor Elinor Mikaghaq Oozeva, to demonstrate the central importance of three aspects of Yupik life: religious beliefs, devotion to a subsistence life way, and family and clan ties. Jolles documents the life and livelihood of this modern community of marine mammal hunters and explores the ways in which religion is woven into the lives of community members, paying particular attention to the roles of women. Her account conveys a powerful sense of the lasting bonds between those who live in Gambell and their spiritual world, both past and present.
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"A welcome contribution to the literature on St. Lawrence Island, Inuit studies, the anthropology of religion, and circumpolar ethnography. The author's long experience in and respect for this Yupik community shines through on every page."--Phyllis Morrow, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
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Carol Zane Jolles is a research faculty member in anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle.
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I often think that for those who were born and raised on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, the landscape itself must be part of their being. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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subsistence life way, whaling ceremonies, buying ceremony, female walrus, boat racks, walrus meat, moon worship, whaling season, pilot bread Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lawrence Island, Paul Silook, Bering Sea, Henry Collins, James Aningayou, Henry Bascom Collins Collection, Alexander Leighton, John Apangalook, Bering Strait, Edgar Campbell, Willis Walunga, Charles Hughes, Sheldon Jackson, Indian Point, Otto Geist, Punuk Islands, Dorothea Leighton, Sivugaq Mountain, Holy Spirit, Lawrence Kulukhon, Northeast Cape, Word of God, Native American, Seventh-day Adventists, Where It All Takes Place New!
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