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- Title
Festivals and Ceremonies of the Alaskan Eskimos: Historical and Ethnographic Sources, 1814-1940.
- Authors
SALIUS GUMÀ, Jesús
- Abstract
The main objective of this article is to shed light on the festive and ceremonial events of some of the Eskimo cultures of Alaska through a review of the ethnohistorical documents at our disposal. The study centers on the ancient societies of the Alutiiq, Yup'ik and a part of the Inupiat, communities that share a series of common features, and sees their festive and ceremonial activities as components of the strategies implemented to maintain control over social reproduction. This review of the historical and ethnographic sources identifies the authors and the studies that provide the most pertinent data on the subject.
- Subjects
ALASKA; ALASKAN Eskimos; RITES &; ceremonies; ETHNOLOGY; ETHNOHISTORY; SOCIAL reproduction; ALASKA Natives; NATIVE American music
- Publication
Revista Espanola de Antropologia Americana, 2014, Vol 44, Issue 1, p127
- ISSN
0556-6533
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5209/rev_REAA.2014.v44.n1.47637