Faith, Food, and Family in a Yupik Whaling Community
Jolles, Carol Zane
For more than fifteen hundred years Yupik and proto-Yupik Eskimo peoples have lived at the site of the Alaskan village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. Their history is a record of family and kin, and of the interrelationship between those who live in Gambell and the spiritual world on which they depend, it is a history dominated by an abiding desire for community survival.
Relying on oral history blended with ethnography and ethnohistory, C...
