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Fienup-Riordan
Ann Fienup-Riordan
National Museum of Natural History, Arctic Studies Center
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Ann Fienup-Riordan
received a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University
of Chicago in 1980 and has resided in Alaska since 1973. The
focus of her work has been the history and oral traditions of
the Yup'ik Eskimos. Her books include The Nelson Island
Eskimo, Eskimo Essays, The Real People and the Children of Thunder,
Boundaries and Passages, The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks,
and Hunting Tradition in a Changing World. Through 1996
she worked with the Anchorage Museum and the Coastal Yukon Mayors
Association curating the Yup'ik mask exhibit Agayuliyararput:
Our Way of Making Prayer. From 1997 through 2000 she worked
with Yup'ik elders exploring museum collections in an NSF-sponsored
project entitled Elders in Museums: Fieldwork Turned on
Its Head. At present she works with the Calista Elders
Council as part of their NSF project, mentoring Yup'ik men and
women in documenting traditional knowledge. |
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