Ann Fienup-Riordan
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| Ann Fienup-Riordan | |
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| Born | October 13, 1948[1] Denver, Colorado[1] |
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| Residence | Alaska |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields | Cultural anthropology |
| Institutions | Independent |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan, B.A. 1971; M.A. 1973 University of Chicago, Ph.D. 1980[1] |
| Known for | work with Yup'ik people of Nelson Island, Alaska |
Ann Fienup-Riordan (born 1948) is an American cultural anthropologist known for her work with Yup'ik Eskimo peoples of western Alaska, particularly on Nelson Island and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. She lives in Anchorage, Alaska.
She received her Ph.D. in anthropology in 1980 from the University of Chicago, where she was influenced by David M. Schneider. Her dissertation was based on 1976-77 fieldwork on Nelson Island, Alaska.
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[edit] Awards
- Historian of the Year, Alaska Historical Society, 1991, 2001
- Distinguished Humanities Educator (Alaska), 2001
- Denali Award, 2000, Alaska Federation of Natives, for the greatest contribution by a non-Native
[edit] Works
- Fienup-Riordan, Ann. (1983). The Nelson Island Eskimo: Social Structure and Ritual Distribution. Anchorage, AK: Alaska Pacific University Press.
- Fienup-Riordan, Ann. (1986). "When Our Bad Season Comes: A Cultural Account of Subsistence Harvesting & Harvest Disruption on the Yukon Delta". Alaska Anthropological Assn.
- Fienup-Riordan, Ann. (1990). Eskimo Essays: Yup'ik Lives and How We See Them. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
- Fienup-Riordan, Ann. (1991). The Real People and the Children of Thunder: The Yup'Ik Eskimo Encounter With Moravian Missionaries John and Edith Kilbuck. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
- Fienup-Riordan, Ann. (1994). Boundaries and Passages: Rule and Ritual in Yup'ik Eskimo Oral Tradition. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
- Fienup-Riordan, Ann. (1995). "Freeze Frame: Alaska Eskimos in the Movies". Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.
- Fienup-Riordan, Ann. (1996). The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks: Agayuliyararput (Our Way of Making Prayer). Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.
- Fienup-Riordan, Ann. (2000). Hunting Tradition in a Changing World: Yup'ik Lives in Alaska Today. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
- Fienup-Riordan, Ann. (2000). "Where the Echo Began: and Other Oral Traditions from Southwestern Alaska Recorded by Hans Himmelheber Ed". Anchorage, AK: University of Alaska Press.
- Fienup-Riordan, Ann. (2001). What's in a Name? Becoming a Real Person in a Yup'ik Community. University of Nebraska Press.
- Fienup-Riordan, Ann; Rearden, Alice. (2005). "Wise Words of the Yup'ik People: We Talk to You because We Love You". University of Nebraska Press.
- Fienup-Riordan, Ann; Meade, Marie; Rearden, Alice. (2005). "Yup'ik Words of Wisdom: Yupiit Qanruyutait". University of Nebraska Press.
[edit] Exhibitions
"Agayuliyararput (Our Way of Making Prayer): The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks". Beginning at the University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, and Alaska State Museum, Juneau in 1996, the exhibition than traveled to the National Museum of the American indian, New York, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., ending at the Seattle (Wash.) Art Museum in 1998.
"Yuungnaqpiallerput (The Way We Genuinely Live): Masterworks of Yupik Science and Survival". The exhibition opened in 2007 at the Anchorage Museum and from 2009-2010 traveled to museums in Fairbanks, Juneau, and Washington, DC.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Zencey, Matt. (2001-11-18). "Ann Fienup-Riordan — Q&A: Cultural Anthropologist." Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved through Newsbank.com (subscription required) on 2007-04-11.
