Where the Echo Began: And Other Oral Traditions from Southwestern Alaska Recorded by Hans Himmelheber. Ed.

By: Fienup-Riordan, Ann

In this book, the Native people of southwest Alaska generously share the traditional stories that form the expressive core of their unique culture. The lifeways observed and anecdotes recounted to a then-young university graduate, who recorded and compiled them in communities on Nunivak Island and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, offer a glimpse today of a longstanding way of life.

In the mid-1930s, Hans Himmelheber closely observed the Yup'ik and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1889963038
• ISBN13: 9781889963037
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: University of Alaska Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.0" x 11.4"