Telling Our Selves: Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska

By Chase Hensel

Book Overview

In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing. Although ethnicity is overtly constructed in terms of either/or categories, the discourse of Bethel residents suggests that their actual concern is less with whether one is native or non-native, than with how native one is in a given context. In the interweaving of subsistence practices and subsistence discourse, ethnicity is constantly recreated.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195094778
• ISBN13: 9780195094770
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"