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The sociality of indigenous dance in Alaska : happiness, tradition, and environment among Yupik on St. Lawrence Island and Iñupiat in Utqiaġvik

Title
The sociality of indigenous dance in Alaska : happiness, tradition, and environment among Yupik on St. Lawrence Island and Iñupiat in Utqiaġvik / Hiroko Ikuta.
Author
Ikuta, Hiroko
Publication
  • Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
  • ©2022

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Description
xv, 203 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
Summary
"This book explores indigenous dances and social relationships surrounding the dance activities among Yupik on St. Lawrence Island and Iñupiat in Utqiaġvik, Northern Alaska. Yupik and Iñupiat proudly distinguish their indigenous styles of dance, locally called 'Eskimo dance', from Western styles of dance, such as ballroom, disco or ballet. Based on two years of intensive fieldwork and 18 years of experience living in Alaska, Ikuta sets out to understand how Yupik and Iñupiaq dances are at the centre of social relationships with the environment, among humans, between humans and animals, and between Native and the Euro-American societies. It also examines how the nature and structure of dance are connected to cultural politics, wrought by political, economic and historical events"--
Series Statement
Arctic worlds
Uniform Title
Arctic worlds.
Subject
  • Yupik dance > Alaska > Saint Lawrence Island
  • Inuit dance > Alaska > Utqiagvik
  • Yupik Eskimos > Rites and ceremonies
  • Inupiat > Rites and ceremonies
  • Dance > Social aspects > Alaska
  • Dance > Social aspects
  • Inuit dance
  • Manners and customs
  • Yupik dance
  • Saint Lawrence Island (Alaska) > Social life and customs
  • Utqiaġvik (Alaska) > Social life and customs
  • Alaska
  • Alaska > Saint Lawrence Island
  • Alaska > Utqiaġvik
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Political landscape of St. Lawrence Island Yupik and Iñupiaq dance -- Dance, drum, and song as equilateral triangle -- Embodied knowledge and relations with the environment -- Dance, happiness and personhood -- Ways of speaking and ways of dancing -- Indigenous dance, heritage festivals and reciprocity.
Call Number
*MGS (Inuit ) 22-4283
ISBN
  • 9780367641658
  • 0367641658
  • 9780367641733
  • 0367641739
LCCN
2021052716
OCLC
1303568970
Author
Ikuta, Hiroko, author.
Title
The sociality of indigenous dance in Alaska : happiness, tradition, and environment among Yupik on St. Lawrence Island and Iñupiat in Utqiaġvik / Hiroko Ikuta.
Publisher
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
Copyright Date
©2022
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Arctic worlds
Arctic worlds.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Form:
Online version: Ikuta, Hiroko. Sociality of indigenous dance in Alaska London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022 9781003122425 (DLC) 2021052717
Research Call Number
*MGS (Inuit ) 22-4283
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