Yupiit Yuraryarait: Yup’ik Ways of Dancing

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Far more than only a dance, the dynamic choreography of the Yup’ik provides an illuminating window into the morality, social organization, and colonial history of this indigenous other folks. In Yupiit Yurayarait, anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan begins with a brief historical overview of the colonization and development of Alaska from the Yup’ik perspective. Then, armed with oral history testimony spanning thirty years, she shows how making a song and dancing are interconnected and imbued with which means on this complex ritual. Accompanied by 100 and fifty original photographs, this volume marks the primary in-depth have a look at the Yup’ik other folks in the course of the lens of interpretive dance.

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