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Fienup-Riordan's forty years of intimate collaboration with Nelson Island elders has enabled her to successfully give the English-speaking public a sense of being instructed by the elders themselves... It is the kind of work that could not be produced by anyone else. -- Steve Street Alaska History, Vol. 23, No. 2 Ellavut takes its place alongside such classics on indigenous views of the environment as Keith Basso's Wisdom Sits in Places and Richard Nelson's Make Prayers to the Raven. Essential. Choice This stunning work will be of great interest to Yup'ik people, oral historians, geographers, and anthropologists. More broadly...fellow global citizens could benefit from the words and reflections of the Elders, which inspire reconceptualization of humanity's relationship to the environment as based on reciprocation, not domination. -- Meagan Gough Oral History Review

Ellavut takes its place alongside such classics on indigenous views of the environment as Keith Basso's Wisdom Sits in Places and Richard Nelson's Make Prayers to the Raven. Essential. Choice This stunning work will be of great interest to Yup'ik people, oral historians, geographers, and anthropologists. More broadly...fellow global citizens could benefit from the words and reflections of the Elders, which inspire reconceptualization of humanity's relationship to the environment as based on reciprocation, not domination. -- Meagan Gough Oral History Review Fienup-Riordan's forty years of intimate collaboration with Nelson Island elders has enabled her to successfully give the English-speaking public a sense of being instructed by the elders themselves... It is the kind of work that could not be produced by anyone else. -- Steve Street Alaska History, Vol. 23, No. 2

Few works on Native knowledge drill down this deep or are done with this breadth and depth of collaboration. Ellavut will be a touchstone and standard of excellence for how to carry out research in aboriginal communities. It is a remarkable testament to a remarkable group of elders and their knowledge and ways of being in the world. Thomas Thornton, University of Oxford Ellavut builds on a decade of careful, collaborative ethnographic research with elders on the west coast of Alaska. It sets a high bar for studies of local environmental knowledge by positioning local knowledge in the context provided by the narrators and letting local people drive the narrative. Julie Cruikshank, author of Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination

""Few works on Native knowledge drill down this deep or are done with this breadth and depth of collaboration. Ellavut will be a touchstone and standard of excellence for how to carry out research in aboriginal communities. It is a remarkable testament to a remarkable group of elders and their knowledge and ways of being in the world."" Thomas Thornton, University of Oxford ""Ellavut builds on a decade of careful, collaborative ethnographic research with elders on the west coast of Alaska. It sets a high bar for studies of local environmental knowledge by positioning local knowledge in the context provided by the narrators and letting local people drive the narrative."" Julie Cruikshank, author of Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination

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Cultural anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan is the author of numerous books on the Native peoples of Alaska, including Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather: Continuity and Change on the Bering Sea Coast (University of Washington Press, 2012) and Yup'ik Elders at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin: Fieldwork Turned on Its Head (University of Washington Press, 2005). Alice Rearden is the primary translator for the Calista Elders Council. She translated Paitarkiutenka / My Legacy to You by Misaq / Frank Andrew, Sr., among other bilingual works.

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