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1993, ISBN: 9780295972350
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For the Yup’ik, the realities of life on the delta have underlined the practicality of their traditional culture. Living in a difficult climate, far from job centers and sources of supplies, the Yup’ik still rely on the land for food and materials. Their fishing, sealing, trapping, and berry picking are not sentimental reminders of a bygone way of life. They are practical necessities, bringing in as much as a thousand pounds of food per capita in some villages. A flexible and innovative people, the Yup’ik have been quick to integrate snow machines, CB radios, and other items they find useful into their lifestyle. They have revived the traditions of potlatches and dances―banned for years by missionaries―composing new songs that comment on snow machine joyrides, bingo games, and basketball.
James Barker has photographed the people of the delta for eighteen years. Like his Yup’ik friends and subjects, he has been ready at a moment’s notice to participate in whale hunts, trapping trips, steam baths, and the annual exodus to fishcamp, one of the highlights of the year. The photographs and conversations he presents in this book are neither elegies nor souvenirs, but something more basic and more valuable. “When there is a moment of real connection or understanding,” he writes of his Yup’ik companions, “then perhaps because
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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780295972350
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Publishing year: 1993
Publisher: University of Washington Press Core >1 >T
143 Pages
Weight: 0,753 kg
Language: eng/Englisch
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Book author: barker, james robin
Book title: alaska, always getting ready, eskimo, yup, subsistence, yupik, ready for anything
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