Yuungnaqpiallerput/The Way We Genuinely Live: Masterworks of Yup'ik Science and Survival

by Ann Fienup-Riordan

Honorable mention for the Victor Turner Award for Ethnographic Writing from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology

Honorable mention for the 2008 William Mills Prize for Non-Fiction Polar Books

Survival in the harsh subarctic environment requires great resourcefulness and ingenuity. The Yup'ik people of southwest Alaska meet the challenge by using traditional technology and by following a philosophy that recognizes the personhood...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295986697
• ISBN13: 9780295986692
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 3.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.0" x 11.8"