Ethnobotanical Knowledge of an Eskimo Family: Naukan Yupiks [Etnobotanicheskoe znanie odnoi eskimosskoi sem’i: naukanskie yupiki]

• Published in: Etnograficheskoe obozrenie
• Main Authors: Kolosova, V., Jernigan, Kevin, Belichenko, Olga
• Other Authors: Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), Université de Venise Ca’ Foscari, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2021
• Subjects: [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology; [SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society; [SHS.ENVIR]Humanities and Social Sciences/Environmental studies; [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics; Cape Dezhnev; Naukan; Uelen; Chukotka; eskimo*; Tundra; Yupiks
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03659742; https://doi.org/10.31857/S086954150017412-3

International audience This article analyzes the Naukan Yupiks ethnobotanical knowledge, i.e. the use of plants as food, medicine, household or ritual objects, on the example of one family. The resettlement from Cape Dezhnev to other settlements led to significant changes in their culture and langua...