Title:
A Yupiaq worldview : a pathway to ecology and spirit
JLCTITLE245:
Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley.
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Publication Information:
Long Grove, Ill. : Waveland Press, c2006.
Physical Description:
vi, 168 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9781577663843
Abstract:
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-151).
Contents:
Yupiaq worldview: Meeting of old and new -- Akiak and the Yupiit nation -- Yupiaq science, technology, and survival -- Education and science in a Yupiaq school -- Yupiaq cultural adaptation in the contemporary world -- Epilogue: Synchronicities and incremental advance -- Appendix: Research considerations: Research setting -- Methodology -- Background and biases of the researcher -- Field methodologies in retrospect -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Study guide.