Nunakun-Gguq Ciutengqertut/They Say They Have Ears Through the Ground: Animals and Others in Southwest Alaska

Lifeways in Southwest Alaska today remains inextricably bound to the seasonal cycles of sea and land. Community members continue to hunt, fish, and make products from the life found in the rivers and sea. Based on a wealth of oral histories collected over decades of research, this book explores the ancestral relationship between Yupik people and the natural world of Southwest Alaska. Nunakun-gguq Ciutengqertut studies the overlapping lives of the Yupik with native plants, animals, and birds, and traces how these relationships transform as more Yupik people relocate to urban areas and with the changing environment. The book will be hailed as a milestone work in the anthropological study of contemporary Alaska. "Lifeways in Southwest Alaska today remains inextricably bound to the seasonal cycles of sea and land. Community members continue to hunt, fish, and make products from the life found in the rivers and sea. Based on a wealth of oral histories collected over decades of research, this book explores the ancestral relationship between Yup'ik people and the natural world of Southwest Alaska. Nunakun-gguq Ciutengqertut studies the overlapping lives of the Yup'ik with native plants, animals, and birds, and traces how these relationships transform as more Yup'ik relocate to urban areas and with the changing environment. The book is presented in bilingual format, with facing-page translations, and will be hailed as a milestone work in the anthropological study of contemporary Alaska"-- Provided by publisher Lifeways in Southwest Alaska today remains inextricably bound tothe seasonal cycles of sea and land. Community members continue tohunt, fish, and make products from the life found in the rivers andsea. Based on a wealth of oral histories collected over decades ofresearch, this book explores the ancestral relationship betweenYup'ik people and the natural world of Southwest Alaska.Nunakun-gguq Ciutengqertut studies the overlapping livesof the Yup'ik with native plants, animals, and birds, and traceshow these relationships transform as more Yup'ik people relocate tourban areas and with the changing environment. The book will behailed as a milestone work in the anthropological study ofcontemporary Alaska