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Faith, Food, and Family in a Yupik Whaling Community
by Carol Zane Jolles
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Faith, Food, and Family in a Yupik Whaling Community
by Carol Zane Jolles
List price: $50.00
Clothbound: 344 pp. (September 2002)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0-295-98189-X
For more than fifteen hundred years Yupik and proto-Yupik Eskimo peoples
have lived at the site of the Alaskan village of Gambell on St. Lawrence
Island. Their history is a record of family and kin, and of the
interrelationship between those who live in Gambell and the spiritual
world on which they depend; it is a history dominated by an abiding
desire for community survival.
Relying on oral history blended with ethnography and ethnohistory, Carol
Zane Jolles views the contemporary Yupik people in terms of the enduring
beliefs and values that have contributed to the community's survival and
adaptability. She draws on extensive interviews with villagers, archival
records, and scholarly studies, as well as on her own ten years of
fieldwork in Gambell to demonstrate the central importance of three
aspects of Yupik life: religious beliefs, devotion to a subsistence life
way, and family and clan ties. Jolles documents the life and livelihood
of this modern community of marine mammal hunters and explores the ways
in which religion is woven into the lives of community members, paying
particular attention to the roles of women. Her account conveys a
powerful sense of the lasting bonds between those who live in Gambell
and their spiritual world, both past and present.
Carol Zane Jolles is a research faculty member in anthropology at the
University of Washington, Seattle.
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