Faith, food, and family in a Yupik whaling community - Jolles, Carol Zane (University of Washington Press, 2002)
"A McLellan book."
Paralleltitel: Faith, food, & family in a Yupik whaling community
Includes bibliographical references (p. 336-350) and index
"For more than fifteen hundred years Yupik and proto-Yupik Eskimo peoples have lived at the site of the Alaskan village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. Their history is a record of family and kin, and of the interrelationship between those who live in Gambell and the spiritual world on which they depend; it is a history dominated by an abiding desire for community survival."--Jacket
1. Introduction [Yupik Eskimos, Inuit, Native or Aboriginal peoples] -- 2. Where It All Takes Place: The Village of Gambell -- 3. Early History -- 4. Names and Families -- 5. Marriage -- 6. Life Passages [death, charms, pregnancy and birth, names & naming, sickness -- illness, health] -- 7. A Religious World View -- 8. Believing [traditional practices, Christianity] -- 9. Men, Women, and Food: A Subsistence Way of Life [hunting, fishing, foraging] -- 10. Conclusion: The Land, the People, the Future