| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.3

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Book Review

Faith, Food, and Family in a Yupik Whaling Community. By Carol Zane Jolles, with Ekinor Mikaghaq Oozeva. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. xi + 364 pp. Illustrations, glossary, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00.)

Northern Athabascan Survival: Women, Community, and the Future. By Phyllis Ann Fast. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xi + 305 pp. Tables, bibliography, index. $55.00, £41.95.)

These two new books by Carol Jolles and Phyllis Fast are part of a confident, maturing post-modernist and feminist influenced genre that is emerging in northern ethnography. Thanks to women like Frederica de Laguna and Catherine McClellan, northern anthropology has a long history of gender-balanced ethnography, but wrestling with the issue of giving voice to the "other" is more recent.

In Jolles's Food, Faith, and Family..., the primary "other" is her Siberian Yupik collaborator, Ekinor Mikaghaq Oozeva. Oozeva performed the role of interpreter, colleague, and censor in this narrative of contemporary Yupik life in Gambell, Alaska. Approximately a fourth of the book is ethnohistoric, giving the reader a sense of this St. Lawrence Island whaling community as perceived by anthropologists and historians—with the remainder arranged in chapters like "Names and Families" and "Believing," which show how people themselves perceive their world. Much of the content is presented as dialogue between Jolles and Oozeva (or other Gambell elders) and reads more like a play than a traditional ethnography.

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