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Researching Alaska with Ann Fienup-Riordan, Willie Hensley, and Katie Ringsmuth
No full textAnn Fienup-Riordan, Willie Hensley, and Katie Ringsmuth share insights on how to connect, research, and uncover Alaska's past. Their individual interests, projects, approaches, and challenges researching Alaska will be highlighted. Katie Ringsmuth: National Park Service historian (UAA History Department); Ann Fienup-Riordan: anthropologist, author, and oral historian; Willie Hensley: Inupiaq activist, leader, author (UAA College of Business)
Frozen in Film: Alaska Eskimos in the Movies
No full textThis chapter examines the history of Alaskan Eskimo representations, primarily in Hollywood, as Fienup-Riordan offers a detailed analysis of the career of Inuit film star Ray Mala, who starred in the the 1933 MGM production Eskimo, directed by W.S. Van Dyke, and the first film shot totally in the Iñupiaq language. The chapter also considers the ways in which Alaskan Eskimos have worked within the Hollywood system in a sporadic manner from the 1930s to the present. Fienup-Riordan also addresses Ken Kwapis’s Hollywood film Big Miracle (2012) before moving on to examine television (such as KYUK-TV), video, and cinematic self-representations of Yu’pik culture in the twenty first century, including as part of community activism in an age of climate change.</p
Alaska Native Masks
No full textSpecial guests Sven Haakanson, Alvin Amason, Ann Fienup-Riordan, and Anna Mossolova come together to share their intimate knowledge and study of Alaska Native masks. The nature of masks within expressions of animal symbolism and transformation, and Alaska Native mask collections abroad will be discussed. Introducing the guest speakers will be Maria Shaa Tla Williams, director of Alaska Native Studies at UAA. Sven Haakanson is former Executive Director of the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak, Alaska. His book, Giinaquq: Like a Face, Sugpiaq Masks of the Kodiak Archipelago features the Alphonse Pinart ceremonial mask collection. He currently teaches at the University of Washington, and is a curator of the Native American Exhibitions at the Burk Museum. Renowned artist Alvin Eli Amason is a Sugpiaq Alaskan painter and sculptor. His paintings are on display at the Anchorage International Airport and have been exhibited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Heard Museum, and museums throughout Alaska. After spending 17 years as the Director of Native Arts program at UAF, he is currently developing a Native arts program at UAA. Cultural anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan is author of more than 20 books and translations including Yup'ik Elders at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin: Fieldwork Turned on its Head. Her books Agayuliyararput (Our Way of Making Prayer): The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks and Yuungnaqpiallerput (The Way We Genuinely Live): Masterworks of Yup'ik Science and Survival accompanied museum exhibitions in Alaska and Washington, DC. Anna Mossolova is a visiting Fulbright student researcher at the UAA Anthropology Department and Alaska Native Studies program. Her interest include studying Yup'ik mask collections in Europe and Russia and researching Yup'ik mask-making traditions
Opgøret med Kæmpe Eskimoen
No full textArtiklen undersøger, hvordan ’Kæmpe Eskimoen’ producerer og reproducerer stereotyper og raciale forestillinger om grønlændere og inuit, som en form for ’eskimo-orientalisme’ (Ann Fienup-Riordan, 1995) – og hvordan denne understøtter en fortælling om dansk ’hvid uskyld’ (Wekker, 2016). For at belyse nogle af de specifikke, menneskelige og relationelle konsekvenser, som isklassikeren også implicerer, gør artiklen også brug af auto-etnografiske vignetter (Graugaard, 2020) fra møder med ’Kæmpe Eskimoen’ i forfatterens egen dansk-grønlandske hverdag. Denne artikel diskuterer Kæmpe Eskimo-isen, og brugen af ordet ’eskimo’, i sammenhæng med historiske og aktuelle racialiserings- og koloniseringsprocesser i dansk-grønlandske relationer. <br/
“The Ocean Is Always Changing”: Nearshore and Farshore Perspectives on Arctic Coastal Seas
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