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Boundaries and Passages
Ann Fienup-Riordan
其他書名
Rule and Ritual in Yup'ik Eskimo Oral Tradition
出版VNR AG, 1994
主題Social Science / Customs & TraditionsSocial Science / Folklore & MythologySocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
ISBN08061260439780806126043
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3S7GvgBGH3wC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This book brings together as complete a record of traditional Yupik rules and rituals as is possible in the late twentieth century. Incorporating elders' recollections of the system of ruled boundaries and ritual passages that guided their parents and grandparents a century ago, Ann Fienup-Riordan brings into focus the complex, creative Yupik world view - expressed by ceremonial exchanges and the cycling of names, gifts, and persons - which continues to shape daily life in communities along the Bering Sea coast. Her analysis is illustrated with many contemporary and historical photographs. Identifying "metaphors to live by", Fienup-Riordan tells of "the Boy Who Went to Live with Seals" and "the Girl Who Returned from the Dead". She explains how in Yupik cosmology their stories illustrate relationships among human beings, animals, and the spirit world - the "boundaries and passages" between death and the renewal of life.