New Book Available
"Ciuliamta Akluit / Things of Our Ancestors"
University of Washington Press
Translated By: Marie Meade
Edited By: Ann Fienup-Riordan
ISBN: 0-295-98471-6
Price: $25.00
For further information and to order the book, please go to:
http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/FIETHI.html
New from the University of Washington Press is the book "Ciuliamta
Akluit / Things of Our Ancestors: Yup'ik Elders Explore the Jacobsen
Collection at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin," translated by Marie
Meade and edited by Ann Fienup-Riordan.
In the 1880s, the Norwegian-born traveler Johan Adrian Jacobsen spent a
year in Alaska and amassed an unprecedented collection of Yup'ik
material culture that eventually made its way to Germany's most
prominent ethnographic museum. More than a century later, a delegation
of Yup'ik elders and educators from Bethel, Alaska joined cultural
anthropologists and museum professionals at the Berlin Ethnologisches
Museum to examine and interpret Jacobsen's collection. For this
Yup'ik-English bilingual book, anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan has
chosen stories and accounts of the Berlin exchange that best describe
the collection and the visit. The narrative is accompanied by 66
photographs of this unusual episode of cultural revival.
"Ciuliamta Akluit / Things of Our Ancestors" is a 448-page, paperback
book, with text in English and Yu'pik. Further information, including a
complete table of contents, can be found at:
http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/FIETHI.html