Akulmiut neqait : fish and food of the Akulmiut /

Akulmiut neqait : fish and food of the Akulmiut /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Fienup-Riordan, Ann, author.
Imprint:	Anchorage, Alaska : Calista Education and Culture, Inc., [2019]
Description:	xii, 452 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language:	English Yupik
Subject:	Yupik Eskimos -- Alaska -- Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta -- Social life and customs. Yupik Eskimos -- Food -- Alaska -- Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Yupik Eskimos -- Fishing. Subsistence fishing -- Alaska, Southwest. Traditional ecological knowledge -- Alaska, Southwest. Whitefish fisheries -- Alaska, Southwest. Ethnology -- Alaska -- Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Region. Older Yupik Eskimos -- Interviews. Central Yupik language -- Texts. Central Yupik language. Ethnology. Manners and customs. Older Yupik Eskimos. Subsistence fishing. Traditional ecological knowledge. Whitefish fisheries. Yupik Eskimos -- Fishing. Yupik Eskimos -- Social life and customs. Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (Alaska) -- Social life and customs. Southwest Alaska. Alaska -- Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Interviews. Texts.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11933189

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Fish and food of the Akulmiut
Other authors / contributors:	Meade, Marie, author. Rearden, Alice, author. Calista Education and Culture (Organization), issuing body.
ISBN:	9781602233867 1602233861
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Text in English and Yupik.
Summary:	"In fall 2014, Calista Education and Culture, Inc. (CEC, formerly Calista Elders Council) began a four-year study funded by the Office of Subsistence Management of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The study focused on whitefish and other non-salmon freshwater fish harvested by residents of the Akulmiut villages of Kasigluk, Nunapitchuk, and Atmautluak, as well as those living along the Kuskokwim River just below Bethel in the villages of Napaskiak, Napakiak, and Oscarville. Harvest studies have been carried out in some of these communities (Ikuta, Brown, and Koester, ed. 2014) as well as two major ethnographic studies--one in Napaskiak (Oswalt 1963) and one in Nunapitchuk (Andrews 1989). Our intended focus was not on harvest amounts but rather traditional knowledge surrounding the harvest and use of the six species of whitefish, as well as pike, burbot, and blackfish, on which people from this area relied so heavily in the past and continue to harvest to this day. In fact, all three contemporary Akulmiut villages, as well as settlements in the past, were established at sites where fish fences were built across the river each fall to intercept whitefish as they migrated out of the lakes and sloughs toward the mainstem of the Kuskokwim River. If there is one food that defines people from this area, it is whitefish."--Provided by publisher.

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Summary:	For centuries, the Akulmiut people--a Yup'ik group--have been sustained by the annual movements of whitefish. It is a food that sustains and defines them. To this day, many Akulmiut view not only their actions in the world, but their interactions with each other, as having a direct and profound effect on these fish. Not only are fish viewed as responding to human action and intention in many contexts, but the lakes and rivers fish inhabit are likewise viewed as sentient beings, with the ability to respond both positively and negatively to those who travel there.<br> <br> This bilingual book details the lives of the Akulmiut living in the lake country west of Bethel, Alaska, in the villages of Kasigluk, Nunapitchuk, and Atmautluak. Akulmiut Neqait is based in conversations recorded with the people of these villages as they talk about their uniquely Yup'ik view of the world and how it has weathered periods of immense change in southwest Alaska. While many predicted that globalization would sound the death knoll for many distinctive traditions, these conversations show that Indigenous people all over the planet have sought to appropriate the world in their own terms. For all their new connectedness, the continued relevance of traditional admonitions cannot be denied.<br> <br>
Physical Description:	xii, 452 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781602233867 1602233861