HUNTERS IN THE GARDEN: YUP’IK SUBSISTENCE AND THE AGRICULTURAL MYTHS OF EDEN

• Main Author: Kuntz, Benjamin
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Montana 2007
• Subjects: nature writing; subsistence; Clifford; Wendell; Nunivak; Nunivak Island; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/534; https://scholarworks.umt.edu/context/etd/article/1553/viewcontent/KuntzThesisFinal.pdf

Yup’ik writers and Yup’ik subsistence offer valuable challenges, parallels, and alternative models to mainstream nature writing’s discourse surrounding human relationships to the land, a discourse that carries an inherent agricultural bias. An introduction to western Alaska’s Nunivak Island provides...