Oscar Kawagley is a man of two worlds, walking the sometimes bewildering line between traditional Yupiaq culture and the Westernized Yupiaq life of today. In this study, Kawagley follows both memories of his Yupiaq grandmother, who raised him with the stories of the Bear Woman and respectful knowledge of the reciprocity of nature, and his own education in science as it is taught in Western schools. Kawagley is a man who hears the elders' voices in Alaska, knows how to look for the weather and to use the land and its creatures with the most delicate care. In a call to unite the two parts of his own and modern Yupiaq history, Kawagley proposes a way of teaching that incorporates all ways of knowing available in Yupiaq and Western science. He has traveled a long journey, but it ends where it began, in a fishing camp in southwestern Alaska, a home for his heart and spirit.
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Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Balikci, The Netsilik Eskimo (ISBN 0881334359); Jarvenpa, Northern Passage: Ethnography and Apprenticeship among the Subarctic Dene (ISBN 0881339903); Lancy, Studying Children and Schools: Qualitative Research Traditions (ISBN 1577661702); and Ziker, Peoples of the Tundra: Northern Siberians in the Post-Communist Transition (ISBN 1577662121).
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"A great book with contemporary issues in politics, economy, and education as well as current adaptations of a native people. I look forward to using it." -- Alison Stratton, Quinnipiac University
"Provides an insider's description of a traditional culture as it confronts the arrival of 'modern' Western society. A useful ethnography in an introductory anthropology course." -- Paul Bach, Essex County College
"Well done. I was looking for a book that merged spirit with ecology." -- Laura Cooper, Kwantlen University College --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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