Looking both ways : heritage and identity of the Alutiiq people /
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| Imprint: | Fairbanks, Alaska : University of Alaska Press, c2001. |
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| Description: | xii, 265 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 30 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4607936 |
Table of Contents:
- Orthography
- List of Elders
- 1. Looking Both Ways
- Heritage and Identity
- External Perspectives
- Creating the Exhibition
- Quyanasinaq--Many Thanks
- Chapter 1 Notes
- 2. Alutiiq Culture: Views from Archaeology, Anthropology, and History
- The Origins of Alutiiq Culture
- Classical Alutiiq Society
- Cultural Geography of the Alutiiq World
- Essay: The Alutiiq Language
- Essay: Chugach Teachers
- Houses and Domestic Life
- Society and Family
- Essay: Alutiiq Midwives
- Clothing, Jewelry, and Tattoos
- War and Trade
- Essay: War Between the Chugach and the Koniag: How the Men of Qilangalik Avenged Their Wives
- Russian Conquest and Colonial Rule
- Essay: Forgotten Literacy
- United States Rule After 1867
- Essay: Alutiiq Identity
- Chapter 2 Notes
- 3. Contemporary Alutiiq Identity
- Essay: Tides and Ties of Our Culture
- The Impact of Traumatic Events on Alutiiq Identity
- Anthropologists and Alutiit
- Essay: Can There Be Such a Thing as a Native Anthropologist?
- Language and Identity
- Alutiiq Land, Land Claims, and Identity
- Essay: The Spirits are Still There: Memories of Katmai Country
- Essay: Kanatak Tribal Council
- Alutiiq Cultural Reawakening
- Essay: Bridging Traditions and Science
- Repatriation
- Essay: Repatriation and the Chugach Alaska People
- Who is an Alutiiq?
- Conclusion--The Mosaic of Identity
- Essay: Kinship
- Chapter 3 Notes
- 4. Cumilalhet--"Our Ancestors"
- Time and Tradition
- Deep History: An Archaeological Perspective
- First Arrivals--The Paleoarctic Period (8000-5500 B.C.)
- Early Coastal Life (5500-1500 B.C.)
- Essay: Ocean Bay--The Luck of Science
- Coastal Villages of the Middle Era (1500 B.C.-A.D. 1100)
- Essay: Back To Uyak
- Essay: Alutiit on the Alaska Peninsula
- Alutiiq Societies: The Late Precontact Era (A.D. 1100-ca. 1760)
- Partnerships in Archaeology
- Essay: Historical Archaeology at the Afognak Artel
- Essay: Community Archaeology, Old Harbor Style
- Essay: The Karluk Archaeological Project and the Changing Cultural Landscape of Kodiak Island
- Chapter 4 Notes
- 5. Sugucihpet--"Our Way of Living"
- Essay: Sugucihpet--Our Way of Living
- Subsistence and the Spiritual Universe
- The Heritage of Skin Boats
- Kayak Design and Construction
- Kayaks at Sea
- Essay: Kodiak Alutiiq Weather Lore
- The Angyaq
- Angyaq Design and Construction
- Hunting Hats
- Sea Mammals
- Harbor Seal and Sea Lion
- Essay: "Big Ed" Gregorieff
- Sea Otter
- Whales
- Land Animals
- Caribou
- Bears
- Fish
- Essay: Subsistence Fishing
- Birds
- Intertidal Life
- Plants
- Wild Vegetables
- Berries
- Seaweeds
- Chapter 5 Notes
- 6. Ukgwepet--"Our Beliefs": Alutiiq Spiritual Life and Traditions
- The Spirit World
- Suk (Person)
- The Cycles of the Soul (Sugunha)
- Human Souls
- Helping Spirits
- Other Mask-Spirits
- Raven and Creatures of Myth
- The Alutiiq Cosmos
- Traditional Ceremonies
- Bladder Festival
- Hunting Festival
- Essay: An Alutiiq Mask Maker
- Doll Festival
- Feast of the Dead
- Rites of Passage
- Shamans
- Alutiiq Russian Orthodoxy
- Essay: The Dance Continues
- Chapter 6 Notes
- 7. Alutiiq Paths
- Martha Demientieff
- Olga Sam
- Lucille Antowak Davis
- Jennie Zeedar
- Rena Peterson
- Ignatius Kosbruk
- Ed Gregorieff
- Larry Matfay
- Roy Skonberg
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- About the editors
