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Informationen zum Autor Ann Fienup-Riordan is an independent scholar. She is the author and editor of many books, including Hunting Tradition in a Changing World: Yup’ik Lives in Alaska Today and Yup’ik Words of Wisdom: Yupiit Qanruyutait, New Edition (Nebraska, 2018). Alice Rearden is a Yup’ik speaker and leading translator for the Calista Elders Council. Klappentext Ann Fienup-Riordan is an independent scholar.¿She is the author and¿editor of many books, including Hunting Tradition in a Changing World: Yup’ik Lives in Alaska Today and Yup’ik Words of Wisdom: Yupiit Qanruyutait, New Edition (Nebraska, 2018). Alice Rearden is a Yup’ik speaker and leading translator for the Calista Elders Council. ¿ Zusammenfassung The Yup'ik people of southwest Alaska were among the last Arctic peoples to come into contact with non-Natives! and as a result! Yup'ik language and many traditions remain vital into the twenty-first century. Wise Words of the Yup'ik People documents their qanruyutait (adages! words of wisdom! and oral instructions) regarding the proper living of life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction to the New Bison Books Edition Acknowledgments Introduction Yup’ik Transcription and Translation List of Yup’ik ContributorsElders Spoke and Young People ListenedA Powerful MindBoys Are Like Puppies, Ears Are Eyes, and Women Are DeathParents and ChildrenMen and WomenThose Who Are Rich in Relatives: Extended Family RelationsTuqluucaraq: The Way of Addressing One’s RelativesThe World Contains No Others, Only Persons: Yup’ik Views of Self and OtherQanrucunailnguut: Those Who Do Not Listen and AdhereEyagyarat: Abstinence PracticesMaking the Past Present: The Desertion of the QasgiNotes Glossary References Index Map. The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Region
