The Nonempirical Past: Enculturated Landscapes and Other-than-Human Persons in Southwest Alaska

Autor:	I. Krupnik, K. L. Pratt, E. Hill
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Prehistory History Anthropology language Narrative Toponymy Settlement (litigation) Inupiaq language.human_language
Zdroj:	Arctic Anthropology. 49:41-57
ISSN:	1933-8139 0066-6939
DOI:	10.1353/arc.2012.0021
Popis:	In 1971, Ernest S. Burch identified "nonempirical phenomena" as variables in travel and settlement decision-making among Inupiaq Eskimo of Northwest Alaska. This article parses the term "nonempirical" and advocates the use of Hallowell's (1960) term "other-than-human" to describe the extraordinary persons known to Yupiit and Inupiat of Alaska. I discuss the ways in which place names and oral narratives can contribute to an understanding of the relational, intersubjective nature of Yupiit interactions with other-than-human persons and describe how such relations were anchored in enculturated landscapes. Finally, I address how archaeology is uniquely positioned to contribute to reconstructions of prehistoric ontologies that materialized relations between "real people" and the other-than-human persons with whom they shared the animated, dynamic landscapes of Southwest Alaska.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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