Hunting Tradition in a Changing World

Anne Fienup-Riordan has published many books on Yup'ik history and oral tradition, including Eskimo Essays: Yup'ik Lives and How We See Them (Rutgers University Press), The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks and Boundaries and Passages. She has lived with and written about the Yupiit for twenty-five years.

• List of IllustrationsPreface        Acknowledgments        Introduction -Continuity and Change in Southwestern AlaskaAn Anthropologist Reassess Her MethodsThe Boy Who Went to Live with the Seals / Paul JohnYup'ik and Christian Encounter -Metaphors of Conversion, Metaphors of ChangeLife Is Like a Toolbox / Paul JohnMixed Metaphors: Old Yup'ik Acts in the New Catholic ChurchMy Experiences Growing Up / William Tysonyup'ik@alaska.net - Yup'ik Community in the 1990s: A Worldwide WebYup'iks in the City / John ActiveWhat's in a Name?: Becoming a Real Person in a Yup'ik CommunityTuqluryaraq (``The Way of Knowing Who Your Relatives Are'')Hunting Tradition in the Late Twentieth Century Collaboration on Display: A Yup'ik Exhibit at Three National MuseumsSpeaking with Elders / Marie MeadeElders in Museums: Fieldwork Turned on Its HeadMuseums: Part of God's Plan / Paul John``Let the Millennium Come...We'll Make It'' / John ActiveNotes        References        Resources      Index

These essays, some by Native voices, focus on two related themes: cultural revival in YupÆik communities, and the intercultural production of indigenous practices and knowledge. (Choice) Fienup-RiordanÆs latest book is a stimulating look at her anthropological and personal relationships among the YupÆik in southwestern Alaska. Reflecting on 25 years of research in the region . . . she offers several views of the changing world of Alaska Natives, of the relationship between anthropologist and subjects, and of the very goals of anthropology herself. . . . [She] addresses these topics and more with grace and humor. (Arctic) If you donÆt believe that indigenous cultures have survived and even thrived in the modern world, read Hunting Traditions in a Changing World. Fienup-Riordan shows that, far from relinquishing their culture, the Yupiit (the YupÆik people) are eagerly reclaiming it. This reclamation project is not simply an effort to record dances, songs, and customs; it is a way to engage and shape the present. . . . As an ethnographerÆs report on the changing culture of anthropology and on the changing culture of the Yupiit, this book is fascinating, innovative, empathetic, and plain god reading. (Pacific Northwest Quarterly) The book offers fascinating and engaging material. (Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History) This stimulating book of essays contributes fresh ways of thinking about meanings of tradition in the late twentieth century. - Julie Cruikshank (associate professor of anthropology, University of British Columbia)