Wise words of the Yup'ik people : we talk to you because we love you /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fienup-Riordan, Ann
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2005]
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Elders spoke and young people listened
  • A powerful mind
  • Boys are like puppies, ears are eyes, and women are death
  • Parents and children
  • Men and women
  • Those who are rich in relatives : extended family relations
  • Tuqluucaraq : the way of addressing one's relatives
  • The world contains no others, only persons : Yup'ik views of self and other
  • Qanrucunailnguut : those who do not listen and adhere
  • Eyagyarat : abstinence practices
  • Making the past present : the desertion of the qasgi.