Telling our selves : ethnicity and discourse in Southwestern Alaska / Chase Hensel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hensel, Chase, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 5.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 5

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yupik Eskimos--Social conditions.

Yupik Eskimos.

Yupik Eskimos--Ethnic identity.

Yupik languages--Alaska--Bethel.

Yupik languages.

Subsistence economy--Alaska--Bethel.

Subsistence economy.

Ethnicity--Alaska--Bethel.

Ethnicity.

Discourse analysis, Narrative--Alaska--Bethel.

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Sex role--Alaska--Bethel.

Sex role.

Gender identity--Alaska--Bethel.

Gender identity.

Bethel (Alaska)--Economic conditions.

Bethel (Alaska).

Bethel (Alaska)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This book examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives use talk about hunting, fishing, and processing to construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities. This book is suitable for students and scholars of linguistics and anthropology.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; CHAPTER 1: Ethnographic Background and Post-Contact History of the Area; CHAPTER 2: Contemporary Practices and Ideologies; CHAPTER 3: Subsistence, Identity, and Meaning; CHAPTER 4: Subsistence as an Identity Marker; CHAPTER 5: Development and the Marking of Gender and Ethnicity; CHAPTER 6: Yup'ik Gourmands: Food and Ethnicity; CHAPTER 7: Subsistence Discourse as Practice; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliography: p203-213. - Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772259-8

1-280-45101-7

0-19-534467-7

1-60256-629-1

OCLC:

559886381