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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cusack-McVeigh, Holly, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yupik Eskimos--Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta--Folklore.

Yupik Eskimos.

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.

Yupik Eskimos--Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta--Religion.

Shamans--Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.

Shamans.

Folklore--Performance.

Yupik Eskimos--Religion.

Religion.

Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.

Genre:

Folklore.

Physical Description:

xx, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

On the Bering Sea coast of southwest Alaska, Holly 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 react to human actions and emotions states, Places are, in essence, social actors themselves. Stories tell how people learn about each other through encounters on the land and how places also learn about people; places comment on human behavior through the land's responses to specific actions. Such stories reveal ideas about associations and relationships among humans and nonhuman beings. Pointing to a systematic correlation between places and narrative elements that has not been previously explored, this volume makes a unique contribution to the literature on place. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-286) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Cusack-McVeigh, Holly, author. Stories find you, places know

ISBN:

9781607815822

1607815826

OCLC:

989862549