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...Press, 2000. USS 39.95 (hc). ISBN 1-889963-03-8.
This collection makes the Alaskan studies the German ethnographer Hans Himmelheber available to an English-speaking North American audience for the first time. In 1936, Himmelheber visited many Yup'ik, Cup'ig, (1) and Inupiaq villages in Alaska before settling for the winter on Nunivak Island off southwestern Alaska. His work provides the only first-hand ethnographic account of two of the main ceremonies on Nunivak Island, Nakacugtarluteng, "The Bladder Festival," and Qupluteng, "Halving It,"' as well as extensive documentation of Yup'ik and Cup'ig oral traditions.
Himmelheber's work is significant not only for its documentation of Cup'ig culture and...
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