Iñupiaq pride
Kivgiq (Messenger Feast) on the Alaskan North Slope
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3801221 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Ikuta (0000-0002-4454-4961, University of Aberdeen) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 343-364 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Études/Inuit/Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0701-1008 • E-ISSN: 1708-5268 |
| Publisher | Consortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.7202/019736ar |
| OpenAlex | W2143967267 |
| Language | ES |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
This paper explores tradition as dynamics of social life, history, and power relations and its meanings for local people through the examination of a revitalised ancient festival among Iñupiat on the Alaskan North Slope. In one form or another, Iñupiaq people had celebratedKivgiq(Messenger Feast) for many centuries. However, the earlier representations ofKivgiqwere discontinued in the early 20th century due to social, economic, and environmental pressures. In 1988 after a lapse of more than 70 years, the modernKivgiqwas reconstructed with intent to provide each Iñupiaq with an even stronger collective identity and enhanced ethnic pride. The first modernKivgiqgenerated more than 2,000 participants and successfully integrated ancient values into those of the modern context. Now held every second year, the revitalised tradition embodies Iñupiaq socio-economic empowerment.Kivgiqis one of the most important activities to index what contemporary Iñupiat mean by tradition. Along with many other traditional activities defined by Iñupiat, such as whaling, hunting, and dancing, the contemporary Messenger Feast is the key sphere where people regenerate, reinterpret, and renegotiate their traditions to themselves and to wider audiences
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Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1887-88
The Iñupiaq Eskimo nations of northwest Alaska
Art And Agency
The Invention Of Tradition
A Message from Eagle Mother
The Perception of the Environment
The Inupiat and Arctic Alaska
The Inupiaq Eskimo Messenger Feast
Tradition, Genuine or Spurious
Anguish Of Snails
Knowledge of the Body
Culture-Making
The Praxis of Indigenism and Alaska Native Timber Politics
Revitalization Movements
Looking Several Ways
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |