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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812247903321

Autore

Krupnik Igor

Titolo

Yupik transitions : change and survival at Bering Strait, 1900-1960 / / Igor Krupnik and Michael Chlenov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fairbanks, Alaska : , : University of Alaska Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-60223-217-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (425 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChlenovMichael

Disciplina

306/.08997016451

Soggetti

Yupik Eskimos - Bering Strait - History - 20th century

Yupik Eskimos - Bering Strait - Social conditions

Yupik Eskimos - Bering Strait - Social life and customs

History

Electronic books.

Pacific Ocean Bering Strait

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Maps; Museum and Institutional Acronymns; Foreword-Ernest S. Burch, Jr.; Prologue: 1987; Preface: 2011-Igor Krupnik; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Contact-Traditional Society, 1900-1923; Chapter 2. The "Olden Times," 1850-1900; Chapter 3. The Yupik Social System: A Model; Chapter 4. Along the Shores of Yupik Land in Asia; Chapter 5. Community Affairs; Chapter 6. Family and Kinship; Chapter 7. "Upstreaming": Lifetime of the Yupik Social System; Chapter 8. The New Life Begins, 1923-1933; Chapter 9. Collective Farm Era, 1933-1955.

Chapter 10. The End of "Eskimo Land," 1955-1960Epilogue; Appendices; Glossary; References; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Siberian Yupik people have endured centuries of change and repression, starting with the Russian Cossacks in 1648 and extending into recent years. The twentieth century brought especially formidable challenges, including forced relocation by Russian authorities and a Cold War "ice curtain" that cut off the Yupik people on the mainland region of Chukotka from those on St. Lawrence Island. Yet throughout



all this, the Yupik have managed to maintain their culture and identity. Igor Krupnik and Michael Chlenov spent more than thirty years studying this resilience through original fieldwor.