Stories find you, places know : Yup'ik narratives of a sentient world / Holly Cusack-McVeigh.

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"On the Bering coast of southwest Alaska, Cusack-McVeigh accompanied storytellers during their daily activities. Hearing many narratives repeatedly over a span of years, she came to understand how stories reflected interactions of people and places. For the Yup’ik people, places are also social acto...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cusack-McVeigh, Holly (Author)
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Yupik Eskimos > Alaska > Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta > Folklore.
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 > Alaska > Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta > Religion.
Shamans > Alaska > Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Diskurs.
Einfluss.
Erzähltechnik.
Kulturanthropologie.
Mensch.
Mündliche Überlieferung.
Ort.
Tradition.
Yupik.
Kuskokwim-River-Gebiet.
Yukon-River-Gebiet.
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Ethnology.
Folklore > Performance.
Oral tradition.
Shamans.
Storytelling.
Yupik Eskimos > Religion.
Alaska > Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Genre:
Folklore.
Physical Description:xx, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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