| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 168 pages) |
| Series |
Anthropology online |
| Contents |
Yupiaq worldview : the meeting of old and new -- Akiak and the Yupiit nation -- Yupiaq science, technology, and survival -- Education and science is a Yupiaq school -- Yupiaq cultural adaptation in the contemporary world -- Epilogue : synchronicities and incremental advance |
| Summary |
"Oscar Kawagley is a man of two worlds, walking the sometimes bewildering line between traditional Yupiaq culture and the Westernized Yupiaq life of today. In this study, Kawagley follows both memories of his Yupiaq grandmother, who raised him with the stories of the Bear Woman and respectful knowledge of the reciprocity of nature, and his own education in science as it is taught in Western schools. Kawagley is a man who hears the elders' voices in Alaska and knows how to look for the weather and to use the land and its creatures with the most delicate care. In a call to unite the two parts of his own and modern Yupiaq history, Kawagley proposes a way of teaching that incorporates all ways of knowing available in Yupiaq and Western science."--ORIGINAL BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-151) |
| Notes |
This edition in English |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Science -- Study and teaching -- Alaska
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Yupik Eskimos -- Education
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Yupik Eskimos -- Science
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Science -- Study and teaching
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Yupik Eskimos -- Education
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Alaska
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007276498 |
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