Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: My First Day in Hooper: A Cautionary Tale for the Anthropologist
1. Introduction
2. Metaphor and Allusion: Discourse and Metaphors from the Land
3. The Rivers, the Mountains, the Tundra, and the Sea
4. “Too Many Otters in That One Place!”: Stories of Paalraayak and Other Water Creatures
5. “Assiituq!” The Land Can Be a Dangerous Place: Understanding the Importance of Cautionary Tales
6. Angalkuut: Shamans, Enemies, and Other Villages
7. The Tale of the Teakettle Ghost: Performative Aspects of Discourse
8. Anchoring Memory in Place: Tales of Brother Oscar and the Old Church
9. Haunted Places and Their Symbolic Import: Narratives from Throughout the Yup’ik Region
10. What Haunts These Places?: Cultural Encounters and Narratives of Resistance
11. Sentient Places in a Sentient World
Notes
References
Appendix
Index