{"product_id":"hunting-tradition-in-a-changing-world-yupik-lives-in-alaska-today-9780813528052","title":"Hunting Tradition in a Changing World: Yup'ik Lives in Alaska Today","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Yupiit in southwestern Alaska are members of the larger family of Inuit cultures. Including more than 20 000 individuals in seventy villages  the Yupiit continue to engage in traditional hunting activities  carefully following the seasonal shifts in the environment they know so well. During the twentieth century  especially after the construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline  the Yupik people witnessed and experienced explosive cultural changes. Anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan explores how these subarctic hunters engage in a \"hunt\" for history  to make connections within their own communities and between them and the larger world. She turns to the Yupiit themselves  joining her essays with eloquent narratives by individual Yupiit  which illuminate their hunting traditions in their own words. To highlight the ongoing process of cultural negotiation  Fienup-Riordan provides vivid examples: How the Yupiit use metaphor to teach both themselves and others about their past and present lives; how they maintain their cultural identity  even while moving away from native villages; and how they worked with museums in the \"Lower 48\" on an exhibition of Yupik ceremonial masks. Ann Fienup-Riordan has published many books on Yupik history and oral tradition  including Eskimo Essays: Yupik Lives and How We See Them  The Living Tradition of Yupik Masks and Boundaries and Passages. She has lived with and written about the Yupiit for twenty-five years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647899033653,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813528054","price":32.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813528052.jpg?v=1781699519","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/hunting-tradition-in-a-changing-world-yupik-lives-in-alaska-today-9780813528052","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}