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Faith, Food, and Family in a Yupik Whaling Community (McLellan Book)
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Faith, Food, and Family in a Yupik Whaling Community (McLellan Book) Paperback - 2002

by Jolles, Carol Zane

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  • Title Faith, Food, and Family in a Yupik Whaling Community (McLellan Book)
  • Author Jolles, Carol Zane
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 376
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Washington Press
  • Date 2002-09-01
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ING9780295981888
  • ISBN 9780295981888 / 0295981881
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.34 x 0.85 in (23.47 x 16.10 x 2.16 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001048086
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.897

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From the publisher

For more than fifteen hundred years Yupik and proto-Yupik Eskimo peoples 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 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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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.

About the author

Carol Zane Jolles is a research faculty member in anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle.