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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

The Sociality of Indigenous Dance in Alaska: Happiness, Tradition, and Environment Among Yupik on St. Lawrence Island and Iñupiat in Utqiaġvik

Ikuta, Hiroko

Hardcover

Series: Arctic Worlds

AnthropologyGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0367641658
ISBN13: 9780367641658
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 12 2022
Pages: 204
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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