Hunting tradition in a changing world : Yup'ik lives in Alaska today /

These essays, some by Native voices, focus on two related themes: cultural revival in Yup'ik communities, and the intercultural production of indigenous practices and knowledge. "The ... essays focus on relations both within and beyond local community among Yup'ik men and women and the wider society." The first essays recount changes in both the anthropological community and the Yup'ik state of relations with the world. Later essays describe Christianity and traditional Yup'ik practices, and the revival of both through cultural synergy. Other essays relate contemporary Yup'ik community issues including migration, demography, urban-home links, perceptions of person and place, and the place of outsiders. The final chapters examine the exhibit-making process and its presentation to the external world, including the experiences of Yup'ik elders encountering 19th-century Yup'ik artifacts in Berlin museums. The book closes with two Yup'ik contributions: on museums and on the Yup'ik place in the new millennium. A reprise to the title of the book carries new meaning as contemporary Yupiit search for novel ways to "harvest history." Academic collections. S. R. Martin; Michigan Technological University