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- Title
The Nonempirical Past: Enculturated Landscapes and Other-than-Human Persons in Southwest Alaska.
- Authors
Hill, Erica
- Abstract
In 1971, Ernest S. Burch identified "nonempirical phenomena" as variables in travel and settlement decision-making among Iñupiaq Eskimo of Northwest Alaska. This article parses the term "nonempirical" and advocates the use of Hallowell's (1960) term "other-than-human" to describe the extraordinary persons known to Yupiit and Inupiat of Alaska. I discuss the ways in which place names and oral narratives can contribute to an understanding of the relational, inter subjective nature of Yupiit interactions with other-than-human persons and describe how such relations were anchored in enculturated landscapes. Finally, I address how archaeology is uniquely positioned to contribute to reconstructions of prehistoric ontologies that materialized relations between "real people" and the other-than-human persons with whom they shared the animated, dynamic landscapes of Southwest Alaska.
- Subjects
ALASKA; SOUTHWEST Alaska; UNITED States; ALASKA Natives; BURCH, Ernest S.; SUPERNATURAL beings; YUPIK; ORAL tradition; BLADDER Festival; LANDSCAPES -- Social aspects; ARCHAEOLOGY; INUPIAT; NATIVE American rites &; ceremonies; HISTORY
- Publication
Arctic Anthropology, 2012, Vol 49, Issue 2, p41
- ISSN
0066-6939
- Publication type
Article