Authors: Chase Hensel
ISBN-13: 9780195094763, ISBN-10: 019509476X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: November 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)
In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing. Although ethnicity is overtly constructed in terms of either/or categories, the discourse of Bethel residents suggests that their actual concern is less with whether one is native or non-native, than with how native one is in a given context. In the interweaving of subsistence practices and subsistence discourse, ethnicity is constantly recreated.
Introduction | 3 | |
Ch. 1 | Ethnographic Background and Post-Contact History of the Area | 19 |
Ch. 2 | Contemporary Practices and Ideologies | 47 |
Ch. 3 | Subsistence, Identity, and Meaning | 81 |
Ch. 4 | Subsistence as an Identity Marker | 103 |
Ch. 5 | Development and the Marking of Gender and Ethnicity | 113 |
Ch. 6 | Yup'ik Gourmands: Food and Ethnicity | 139 |
Ch. 7 | Subsistence Discourse as Practice | 153 |
Notes | 191 | |
References | 203 | |
Index | 214 |