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Author Cusack-McVeigh, Holly, author.

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

Publication Info. Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 307 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
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Subject Yupik Eskimos -- Alaska -- Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta -- Folklore.
Yupik Eskimos.
Alaska -- Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Folklore.
Ethnology -- Alaska -- Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Ethnology.
Discourse analysis, Narrative -- Alaska -- Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Oral tradition -- Alaska -- Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Oral tradition.
Storytelling -- Alaska -- Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Storytelling.
Folklore -- Performance -- Alaska -- Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Folklore -- Performance.
Yupik Eskimos -- Alaska -- Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta -- Religion.
Religion.
Shamans -- Alaska -- Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Shamans.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Cusack-McVeigh, Holly. Stories find you, places know. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2017] 9781607815822 (DLC) 2017021796
ISBN 9781607815839 (electronic book)
1607815834 (electronic book)
9781607815822 (paperback)