ALWAYS GETTING READY/UPTERRLAINARLUTA: Yup’ik Eskimo Subsistence in...
ALWAYS GETTING READY/UPTERRLAINARLUTA: Yup’ik Eskimo Subsistence in Southwest Alaska by James H. Barker (University of Washington Press: $29.95; 144 pp.; paperback original). The title of Barker’s photo study refers to the Yup’ik adage that “one must be wise knowing what to prepare for and equally wise in being prepared for the unknowable.” For centuries, the Yup’ik hunted, fished and gathered on the vast silt plain between the lower Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers. But in recent years, 20th-Century technology and values have eroded their way of life. Barker blends words and photographs in a moving study of a people attempting to preserve their traditional culture while adapting to a changing world.
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