{"product_id":"kusiq","title":"Kusiq","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eIf you are a casual reader who wants an intriguing glimpse into Eskimo life, a novice oral historian who wants to know how it is done right, or a student of Alaska who wants an Inupiat perspective of the changes that swept the western Arctic this century, read \u003ci\u003eKusiq.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Journal of the West)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA vivid 'inside' account of an observant Eskimo male who mastered much of the traditional subsistence technology and lore and who lived through the end of commercial whaling, the development and decline of introduced reindeer herding and the fur market, and through World War II and its aftermath. In its scope as well as in the presentation of historical, cultural, and linguistic context\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eKusiq \u003c\/i\u003eis far more extensive than [other] autobiographies.\u003cbr\u003e(American Indian Culture and Research Journal)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKusiq\u003c\/i\u003e represents a new wave in literature, the expressions of cultural awakenings among native American cultures, the attempt to redefine the native world in written form, to recast history, a history for too long the domain of the white system\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(ARCTIC)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt would be difficult to find a better, more interesting first-person account of Eskimo life during the first half of this century. [It is] second in an ambitious series of oral histories developed by the University of Alaska Press.\u003cbr\u003e(Scan-A-Book)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe collaborators for this book include \u003cb\u003eWilliam Schneider\u003c\/b\u003e, curator of oral history at the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks; \u003cb\u003eLeona Kisautaq Okakok\u003c\/b\u003e, manager of the Arctic Education Foundation at the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation; and \u003cb\u003eJames Mumigana Nageak\u003c\/b\u003e, coordinator of bilingual and multicultural instruction at the North Slope Borough School District. Schneider recorded and compiled Bodfish's stories, while Okakok and Nageak, both Inupiaq Eskimo language specialists, contributed their skills in interviewing, translating, and clarifying Inupiaq concepts. The book contains twelve chapters of Bodfish's narrative, background and commentary by the collaborators, and information on pronunciation, personal names, genealogical relations, and place names.","brand":"Waldo Bodfish Sr.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54279130939684,"sku":"9780912006444","price":20.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.co.uk\/products\/kusiq","provider":"IndiePubs UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}