Stories find you, places know : Yup'ik narratives of a sentient world /
Cusack-McVeigh, Holly,
Stories find you, places know : Yup'ik narratives of a sentient world / Holly Cusack-McVeigh. - 1 online resource (xx, 307 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface : my first day in Hooper : a cautionary tale for the anthropologist -- Metaphor and allusion : discourse and metaphors from the land -- The rivers, the mountains, the tundra, and the sea -- 'Too many otters in that one place!' : stories of Palraayak and other water creatures -- 'Assiituq!' : the land can be a dangerous place : understanding the importance of cautionary tales -- Angalkuut : shamans, enemies, and other villages -- The tale of the teakettle ghost : performative aspects of discourse -- Anchoring memory in place : tales of Brother Oscar and the old church -- Haunted places and their symbolic import : narratives from throughout the Yup'ik region -- What haunts these places? : cultural encounters and narratives of resistance -- Sentient places in a sentient world.
9781607815839 (electronic book) 1607815834 (electronic book) (paperback)
2017028118
Yupik Eskimos--Folklore.--Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
Ethnology--Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Discourse analysis, Narrative--Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Oral tradition--Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Storytelling--Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Folklore--Performance--Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Yupik Eskimos--Religion.--Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
Shamans--Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Yupit (Inuits)--Folklore.--Alaska--Yukon, Delta du
Ethnologie--Alaska--Yukon, Delta du.
Discours narratif--Alaska--Yukon, Delta du.
Tradition orale--Alaska--Yukon, Delta du.
Art de conter--Alaska--Yukon, Delta du.
Folklore--Interprétation--Alaska--Yukon, Delta du.
Yupit (Inuits)--Religion.--Alaska--Yukon, Delta du
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Folklore & Mythology.
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Ethnology.
Folklore--Performance.
Oral tradition.
Shamans.
Storytelling.
Yupik Eskimos--Religion.
Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Electronic books.
E99.E7 / C87 2017
398.20897/140798
Stories find you, places know : Yup'ik narratives of a sentient world / Holly Cusack-McVeigh. - 1 online resource (xx, 307 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface : my first day in Hooper : a cautionary tale for the anthropologist -- Metaphor and allusion : discourse and metaphors from the land -- The rivers, the mountains, the tundra, and the sea -- 'Too many otters in that one place!' : stories of Palraayak and other water creatures -- 'Assiituq!' : the land can be a dangerous place : understanding the importance of cautionary tales -- Angalkuut : shamans, enemies, and other villages -- The tale of the teakettle ghost : performative aspects of discourse -- Anchoring memory in place : tales of Brother Oscar and the old church -- Haunted places and their symbolic import : narratives from throughout the Yup'ik region -- What haunts these places? : cultural encounters and narratives of resistance -- Sentient places in a sentient world.
9781607815839 (electronic book) 1607815834 (electronic book) (paperback)
2017028118
Yupik Eskimos--Folklore.--Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
Ethnology--Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Discourse analysis, Narrative--Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Oral tradition--Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Storytelling--Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Folklore--Performance--Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Yupik Eskimos--Religion.--Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
Shamans--Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Yupit (Inuits)--Folklore.--Alaska--Yukon, Delta du
Ethnologie--Alaska--Yukon, Delta du.
Discours narratif--Alaska--Yukon, Delta du.
Tradition orale--Alaska--Yukon, Delta du.
Art de conter--Alaska--Yukon, Delta du.
Folklore--Interprétation--Alaska--Yukon, Delta du.
Yupit (Inuits)--Religion.--Alaska--Yukon, Delta du
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Folklore & Mythology.
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Ethnology.
Folklore--Performance.
Oral tradition.
Shamans.
Storytelling.
Yupik Eskimos--Religion.
Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Electronic books.
E99.E7 / C87 2017
398.20897/140798