Preface. My First Day in Hooper: A Cautionary Tale for the Anthropologist

Grounded in existing understandings of Yup’ik cosmology and worldview, this work is the first to look at how a Yup’ik community uses stories of place in social life. On the Bering coast of southwest Alaska, Cusack-McVeigh accompanied storytellers during their daily activities. Hearing many narrative...

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Main Author: Cusack-McVeigh, Holly
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of Utah Press 2017
Subjects:
Alaska
Yup'ik
Anthropology
McVeigh
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1805/26979
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spelling ftiupui:oai:scholarworks.iupui.edu:1805/26979 2023-10-09T21:56:29+02:00 Preface. My First Day in Hooper: A Cautionary Tale for the Anthropologist Cusack-McVeigh, Holly 2017 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/1805/26979 en eng University of Utah Press Cusack-McVeigh, H. (2017). Preface. My First Day in Hooper: A Cautionary Tale for the Anthropologist. In Stories Find You, Places Know: Yup’ik Narratives of a Sentient World. University of Utah Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/56164 https://hdl.handle.net/1805/26979 Alaska Yup'ik Anthropology Chapter 2017 ftiupui 2023-09-22T14:30:57Z Grounded in existing understandings of Yup’ik cosmology and worldview, this work is the first to look at how a Yup’ik community uses stories of place in social life. On the Bering coast of southwest Alaska, Cusack-McVeigh accompanied storytellers during their daily activities. Hearing many narratives repeatedly over a span of years, she came to understand how stories reflected interactions of people and places. For the Yup’ik people, places are also social actors that react to human actions and emotions. Stories tell how people learn about each other through encounters on the land, and thereby places also learn about people. Places comment on human behavior through the land's responses to specific actions. Stories variously reveal ideas about human associations and relationships between humans and nonhuman beings. Pointing to a systematic correlation between places and narrative elements that has not been previously explored, this volume makes a unique contribution to the literature on place. Winner of the Brian McConnell Book Award from the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research. Article in Journal/Newspaper Yup'ik Alaska Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis: IUPUI Scholar Works McVeigh ENVELOPE(-101.231,-101.231,56.706,56.706)
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Preface. My First Day in Hooper: A Cautionary Tale for the Anthropologist
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description Grounded in existing understandings of Yup’ik cosmology and worldview, this work is the first to look at how a Yup’ik community uses stories of place in social life. On the Bering coast of southwest Alaska, Cusack-McVeigh accompanied storytellers during their daily activities. Hearing many narratives repeatedly over a span of years, she came to understand how stories reflected interactions of people and places. For the Yup’ik people, places are also social actors that react to human actions and emotions. Stories tell how people learn about each other through encounters on the land, and thereby places also learn about people. Places comment on human behavior through the land's responses to specific actions. Stories variously reveal ideas about human associations and relationships between humans and nonhuman beings. Pointing to a systematic correlation between places and narrative elements that has not been previously explored, this volume makes a unique contribution to the literature on place. Winner of the Brian McConnell Book Award from the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research.
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