Akulmiut neqait : fish and food of the Akulmiut / Ann Fienup-Riordan, Marie Meade, and Alice Rearden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fienup-Riordan, Ann, author.

Meade, Marie, author.

Rearden, Alice, author.

Contributor:

Calista Education and Culture (Organization), issuing body.

Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

Language:

English

Yupik languages

Subjects (All):

Central Yupik language.

Older Yupik Eskimos.

Ethnology.

Whitefish fisheries.

Traditional ecological knowledge.

Subsistence fishing.

Yupik Eskimos--Fishing.

Yupik Eskimos.

Food.

Manners and customs.

Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (Alaska)--Social life and customs.

Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (Alaska).

Southwest Alaska.

Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.

Alaska.

Yupik Eskimos--Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta--Social life and customs.

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

Subsistence fishing--Alaska, Southwest.

Traditional ecological knowledge--Alaska, Southwest.

Whitefish fisheries--Alaska, Southwest.

Ethnology--Alaska--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Region.

Older Yupik Eskimos--Interviews.

Central Yupik language--Texts.

Yupik Eskimos--Social life and customs.

Genre:

Interviews.

Texts.

Physical Description:

xii, 452 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Fish and food of the Akulmiut

Place of Publication:

Anchorage, Alaska : Calista Education and Culture, Inc., [2019]

Language Note:

Text in English and Yupik.

Summary:

"In fall 2014, Calista Education and Culture, Inc. (CEC, formerly Calista Elders Council) began a four-year study funded by the Office of Subsistence Management of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The study focused on whitefish and other non-salmon freshwater fish harvested by residents of the Akulmiut villages of Kasigluk, Nunapitchuk, and Atmautluak, as well as those living along the Kuskokwim River just below Bethel in the villages of Napaskiak, Napakiak, and Oscarville. Harvest studies have been carried out in some of these communities (Ikuta, Brown, and Koester, ed. 2014) as well as two major ethnographic studies--one in Napaskiak (Oswalt 1963) and one in Nunapitchuk (Andrews 1989). Our intended focus was not on harvest amounts but rather traditional knowledge surrounding the harvest and use of the six species of whitefish, as well as pike, burbot, and blackfish, on which people from this area relied so heavily in the past and continue to harvest to this day. In fact, all three contemporary Akulmiut villages, as well as settlements in the past, were established at sites where fish fences were built across the river each fall to intercept whitefish as they migrated out of the lakes and sloughs toward the mainstem of the Kuskokwim River. If there is one food that defines people from this area, it is whitefish."--Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

ISBN:

9781602233867

1602233861

OCLC:

1082295656

Publisher Number:

99982000654