Expanding the Kachemak: surplus production and the development of multi-season storage in Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago [0.03%]
拓展凯奇坎:阿留申群岛的剩余生产与多季仓储的发展
Amy F Steffian,Patrick G Saltonstall,Robert E Kopperl
Amy F Steffian
Surplus production is a hallmark of Alaska's prehistoric coastal societies. Over the millennia, foragers procured greater quantities of resources with increasing efficiency, developing economies dependent upon storage and institutionalized ...
The use of plants as regular food in ancient subarctic economies: a case study based on Sami use of Scots pine innerbark [0.03%]
古代亚北极经济中植物作为常规食物的使用——基于萨米人利用 Scot’s Pine 内树皮的案例研究
Ingela Bergman,Lars Östlund,Olle Zackrisson
Ingela Bergman
This study combines ethnological, historical, and dendroecological data from areas north of the Arctic Circle to analyze cultural aspects of Sami use of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) inner bark as regular food. Bark was peeled in June wh...
Ingrid Mainland,Paul Halstead
Ingrid Mainland
Insight into the relative importance of sheep and goat herding and of the economic significance of each species (i.e., milk vs. meat vs. wool) in Medieval Greenland is obtained through the application of Halstead et al.'s (2002) criteria fo...
Alice Kimiksana
Alice Kimiksana
When we talk about narrative, we often focus on the story and the teller, but rarely on the listener. Yet often the first step in healing is finding someone who will listen to you and truly hear your story. Alice Kimiksana and others in the...
A recovery story that heals [0.03%]
一段助人康复的故事
Mabel Kudralook Smith
Mabel Kudralook Smith
It is one thing to talk about intergenerational trauma and substance abuse in general terms, and quite another to get an experiential sense of what it is like for someone dealing with it firsthand. In a profoundly courageous presentation, M...
"It's been good, not drinking": Alaska Native narratives of lifetime sobriety [0.03%]
“一切安好,不再饮酒”——阿拉斯加原住民的终身戒酒经历
Chase Hensel,Sven Haakenson Jr,Gerald Mohatt
Chase Hensel
Alcohol abuse is closely connected with so much hurt and pain in northern communities that it had to be addressed in this session. Much of what is done in the way of prevention and treatment of alcohol abuse originates from outside indigeno...
Louise Profeit-LeBlanc
Louise Profeit-LeBlanc
One of our goals in this session was, not just to talk about the healing power of narrative, but to experience it as well. Louise Profeit-LeBlanc is one of the presenters we invited specifically because of her skills as a storyteller. She h...
Craig Mishler
Craig Mishler
Some stories enjoy a very widespread distribution in the North. Anthropologists and folklorists have long collected and analyzed these stories, and scrutinized their regional variants. Craig Mishler taps into this longstanding scholarly tra...
Music as knowledge in Shamanism and other healing traditions of Siberia [0.03%]
萨满教及其他西伯利亚传统医学中的音乐与知识
Marilyn Walker
Marilyn Walker
Several presenters made the point that one cannot look at narrative alone, without taking into account the music, dance, and drumming that, in many settings, go along with it. One of these presenters was Marilyn Walker, who has had the good...
Healing the body, healing the self: the interrelationship of sickness, health, and faith in the lives of St. Lawrence Island Yupik residents [0.03%]
身心并重:圣劳伦斯岛尤皮克人的生活中的疾病、健康与信仰之间的关系
Carol Zane Jolles
Carol Zane Jolles
For about 15 years, Carol Jolles has been traveling to St. Lawrence Island, Alaska to study the role faith plays in the lives of Sivuqaq (Gambell) residents. From the outset, she was aware of the strong presence of two Christian faith tradi...