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Author Hensel, Chase

Title Telling Our Selves : Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (233 pages)
Series Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics ; v. 5
Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics.
Contents Introduction; Overview; Why Bethel?; Subsistence and Discourse; Subsistence as an Economic Activity?; Deconstructing the Economic Analysis of Subsistence; Negotiated Gender and Ethnicity; Mutual Influences; Fieldwork; CHAPTER 1: Ethnographic Background and Post-Contact History of the Area; Jigging for Pike; Introduction; Geology and Topography of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta; Wildlife; Local Villages; Bethel; Subsistence: Past, Present, and Future; Traditional Housing and Gender Roles; Traditional Yup'ik Beliefs; Early Twentieth-Century Seasonal Rounds
CHAPTER 2: Contemporary Practices and IdeologiesDrift Netting for King Salmon; Introduction; Changes in Migration Patterns and Resource Use; Changing Technologies and Techniques of Subsistence; Changes in Preservation Techniques and Utilization; Trade, Contact, and Changing Local Diets; Contemporary Seasonal Rounds in Lower Kuskokwim Villages; Subsistence Calendar; Contemporary Yup'ik Gender and Family Roles and Subsistence; Subsistence As An Integrated Activity; Subsistence Practices in Bethel; Contemporary Yup'ik Ideologies About Hunting and Fishing
Non-Native Ideologies About Hunting and FishingFish and Game Stocks to Support Future Subsistence in Bethel; Regulating Subsistence; CHAPTER 3: Subsistence, Identity, and Meaning; Cutting Salmon for Drying and Smoking; Introduction; Creating and Maintaining Identity; Boundaries and Boundary Marking; Boundaries, Stereotypes, and Practice; Stereotypes of Inuit: Historical and Contemporary Views; Non-Native Envy of Subsistence Skills and Subsistence as an Identity Marker; Yup'ik Practice as It Affects Non-Native Practice; CHAPTER 4: Subsistence as an Identity Marker; Picking Blueberries
Subsistence as a Marker for a Yup'ik IdentitySubsistence as a Marker for a Non-Native Rural Alaskan Identity; Talk of Practice for Yupiit and Non-Natives; Specific Subsistence Practices as Markers of Identity; CHAPTER 5: Development and the Marking of Gender and Ethnicity; My First Memorable Steambath; Introduction; Nondifferential Effects of Cultural Change; History of Wage Labor; The Gendered Construction of Work; Changes in Yup'ik Gender Spaces; The Steambath as an Institution; Changes in Gender Relations and Power; Outmarriage Reexamined; The Continuing Symbolic Importance of Subsistence
Gender Differences, Discourse SimilaritiesCHAPTER 6: Yup'ik Gourmands: Food and Ethnicity; Setting a Winter Net Under the Ice for Whitefish; Checking the Net; Eating for Pleasure Versus Eating to Survive; Yup'ik ""Cooking""; Changing Attitudes and Diets; Food as an Identity Marker; CHAPTER 7: Subsistence Discourse as Practice; Ptarmigan Hunting by Snow Machine; Introduction; Practice/Structuration Theory; Family Systems Theory; Contextualization Conventions and Sociolinguistics; Summary of Strategic Moves in Example 4; Subsistence Discourse as Practice
Summary This text examines ethnicity and discourse in Southwestern Alaska, and should be of interest to linguists and anthropologists
Notes Native, Non-Native, How Native? Ethnicity on a Continuum of Practice
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Subject Yupik Eskimos -- Social conditions
Yupik Eskimos -- Ethnic identity
Yupik languages -- Alaska -- Bethel
Subsistence economy -- Alaska -- Bethel
Subsistence economy
Yupik Eskimos -- Ethnic identity
Yupik Eskimos -- Social conditions
Yupik languages
Alaska -- Bethel
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780195344677
0195344677