Embodied Knowledge, Relations with the Environment, and Political Negotiation
St. Lawrence Island Yupik and Inupiaq Dance in Alaska
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2431055 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Ikuta (0000-0002-4454-4961, University of Aberdeen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 54-65 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Arctic Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-6939 • E-ISSN: 1933-8139 |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/arc.2011.0109 |
| OpenAlex | W2011180007 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article explores how Alaskan Eskimos’ relationship with the environment is recapitulated in their indigenous forms of dance and what roles these dances play in political discourse. Traditional dance has been a means by which Alaskan Eskimos express their sentiment about the environment. It often draws upon imagery of the landscape and seascape of the Arctic, human and animal interaction, and body movement of hunting and gathering activities. I argue that Eskimo dance, which encodes a culturally specific system of embodied knowledge, is a powerful presentation of political symbolism that people employ in various social contexts, particularly in indigenous empowerment and political discourse of land claims and subsistence hunting issues in Alaska
Archaeology · Arctic · Art · Dance · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Geography · Indigenous · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Seascape · Social science · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · Visual arts · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |