Telling Our Selves: Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska
In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing. Although ethnicity is overtly constructed in terms of either/or categories, the discourse of Bethel residents suggests that their actual concern is less with whether one is native or non-native, than with how native one is in a given context. In the interweaving of subsistence practices and subsistence discourse, ethnicity is constantly recreated.
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Telling Our Selves: Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska
In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing. Although ethnicity is overtly constructed in terms of either/or categories, the discourse of Bethel residents suggests that their actual concern is less with whether one is native or non-native, than with how native one is in a given context. In the interweaving of subsistence practices and subsistence discourse, ethnicity is constantly recreated.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780195094763 |
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Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Publication date: | 11/28/1996 |
Series: | Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics , #5 |
Pages: | 232 |
Product dimensions: | 9.57(w) x 6.44(h) x 0.86(d) |
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