
Yupik Transitions
Change and Survival at Bering Strait, 1900-1960
University of Alaska Press
Published on 15. November 2013
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-1-60223-216-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Siberian Yupik people have endured centuries of change and repression, starting with the Russian Cossacks in 1648 and extending into recent years. The twentieth century brought especially formidable challenges, including forced relocation by Russian authorities and a Cold War "ice curtain" that cut off the Yupik people on the mainland region of Chukotka from those on St. Lawrence Island. Yet throughout all this, the Yupik have managed to maintain their culture and identity. Igor Krupnik and Michael Chlenov spent more than thirty years studying this resilience through original fieldwork. In Yupik Transitions, they present a compelling portrait of a tenacious people and place in transition--an essential portrait as the fast pace of the newest century threatens to erase their way of life forever.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Farmington Hills
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
1021 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60223-216-7 (9781602232167)
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Persons
Igor Krupnik is a cultural anthropologist and curator of the Arctic and Northern Ethnology collections at the Department of Anthropology in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Michael Chlenov is professor at the Maimonides State Jewish Academy of Sciences in Moscow.