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Ellavut, our Yup'ik world & weather : continuity and change on the Bering Sea coast / Ann Fienup-Riordan & Alice Rearden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fienup-Riordan, Ann.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yupik Eskimos--Science--Alaska--Bering Sea Coast.
- Yupik Eskimos.
- Yupik Eskimos--Alaska--Bering Sea Coast--Social conditions.
- Indigenous peoples--Ecology--Alaska--Bering Sea Coast.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Climatic changes--Alaska--Bering Sea Coast.
- Climatic changes.
- Global environmental change.
- Bering Sea Coast (Alaska)--Environmental conditions.
- Bering Sea Coast (Alaska).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Anchorage, Alaska : Calista Elders Council, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather is a result of nearly ten years of gatherings among Yup'ik elders to document the qanruyutet (words of wisdom) that guide their interactions with the environment. In an effort to educate their own young people as well as people outside the community, the elders discussed the practical skills necessary to live in a harsh environment, stressing the ethical and philosophical aspects of the Yup'ik relationship with the land, ocean, snow, weather, and environmental change, among many other elements of the natural world. At every gathering, at least one elder repeated the Yup'ik adage, "The world is changing following its people." The Yup'ik see environmental change as directly related not just to human actions, such as overfishing or burning fossil fuels, but also to human interactions. The elders encourage young people to learn traditional rules and proper behavior--to act with compassion and restraint--in order to reverse negative impacts on their world. They speak not only to educate young people on the practical skills they need to survive but also on the knowing and responsive nature of the world in which they live.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Yup'ik Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""Qanruyutet Anirturyugngaatgen - Qanruyutet Can Save Your Life""; ""Nuna-gguq Mamkitellruuq - They Say the Land Was Thin""; ""Ella Alerquutengqertuq - The World and Its Weather Have Teachings""; ""Nunavut - Our Land""; ""Kuiget Nanvat-llu - Rivers and Lakes""; ""Yuilqumun Atalriit Qanruyutet - Instructions Concerning the Wilderness""; ""Qanikcaq - Snow""; ""Imarpik Elitaituq - The Ocean Cannot Be Learned""; ""Ciku - Ice""
- ""Yun'i Maliggluki Ella Ayuqucimitun Ayuqenrirtuq - The World Is Changing Following Its People""""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-334) and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9780295804972
- 0295804971
- OCLC:
- 841171207
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