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Yungcautnguuq Nunam Qainga Tamarmi/The Entire Surface of the Land is Medicine: Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602234222, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2021
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 124 colour plates
In this book, close to one hundred men and women from all over southwest Alaska share knowledge of their homeland and the plants that grow there. They speak eloquently about time spent gathering and storing plants and plant material during snow-free...
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£24,00
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You Haven't Asked About My Wedding or What I Wore Poems of Courtship on the American Frontier
ISBN: PB: 9781602232358, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2014
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones
"Nowhere / on these parchment leaves do I find / myself, my likeness, my name, / not a whisper – Cynthia – not one / breath of me". For thirty years poet Jana Harris researched the diaries and letters of North American pioneer women. While the nam...
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£13,50
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Yup'ik Eskimo Dictionary (Second Edition) Volumes 1 and 2
ISBN: PB: 9781555001155, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
1248 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm
The most comprehensive Yup'ik dictionary in existence, the second edition of this important work now adds extensive research on Central Alaskan Yup'ik, enhancing the forty years of research done by Steven A. Jacobson on the Yup'ik language and dialec...
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£37,50
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Yupiit Yuraryarait Yup'ik Ways of Dancing
ISBN: PB: 9781602231306, ISBN: HB + DVD: 9781602230828, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2011
237 pp., 25.5x25.5 cm, 100 halftones
Far more than just a dance, the dynamic choreography of the Yup'ik provides an illuminating window into the morality, social organization, and colonial history of this indigenous people. In "Yupiit Yurayarait", anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan begin...
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