Illness and Wellness in Yup'ik Oral Tradition

尤皮克口头传统中的疾病与健康

• 批准号: 2224984
• 负责人: Ann Fienup-Riordan
• 金额: $ 14.97万
• 依托单位: Calista Education and Culture, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2224984&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Illness; Wellness; Yup; ik; Oral

This project explores Indigenous Yup’ik concepts of illness and wellness, how such concepts differ from biomedical understandings of disease, and the roles of traditional healers past and present. The PI team, guided by the Elders’ Committee of Calista Education and Culture, an Alaska tribal organization, will conduct two gatherings of Yup’ik elders in Bethel, Alaska. Accounts collected during these gatherings will be integrated with narratives recorded over the last two decades to document attitudes toward disease, epidemics, healing, and shamanic practice. The work counters rapid loss of traditional knowledge and promotes use of Yup’ik language, two Indigenous research priorities in the region. This community-based project seeks to compile and integrate ethnohistorical and personal narratives describing Yup’ik understanding of illness and wellness. Two topic-specific gatherings will assemble Yup’ik elders from across Southwest Alaska who retain knowledge of traditional practices and Indigenous concepts of disease causation and curing. Discussions will focus on continuity and change in understanding of epidemics and healing, with special attention to the roles of traditional healers today and of shamanic healers, or angalkut, in the past. Accounts from these gatherings will be integrated with archival transcripts to generate a bilingual volume that includes elders’ accounts and an introduction that contextualizes Yup’ik traditions within Alaska and the Arctic more generally. Selected place-based accounts will be recorded as podcasts and linked to the online Yup’ik Atlas, preserving elders’ knowledge and making it broadly accessible to scholars and the public.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个项目探讨土著Yup'ik的疾病和健康的概念，这些概念如何从生物医学的疾病理解不同，以及过去和现在的传统治疗师的作用。PI小组在阿拉斯加部落组织Calista教育和文化长老委员会的指导下，将在阿拉斯加的贝瑟尔举行两次Yup'ik长老聚会。在这些聚会期间收集的账户将与过去二十年记录的叙述相结合，以记录对疾病，流行病，治疗和萨满教实践的态度。这项工作旨在防止传统知识的迅速流失，并促进Yup'ik语言的使用，这是该地区两个土著研究优先事项。这一以社区为基础的项目旨在汇编和整合描述Yup'ik对疾病和健康的理解的民族历史和个人叙述。 两个特定主题的聚会将聚集来自阿拉斯加西南部的Yup'ik长老，他们保留了传统做法的知识和土著人对疾病病因和治疗的概念。讨论将侧重于对流行病和治疗的理解的连续性和变化，特别关注今天传统治疗师和过去萨满教治疗师或angalkut的作用。这些聚会的记录将与档案记录相结合，以产生一个双语卷，其中包括长老的记录和介绍，更普遍地介绍阿拉斯加和北极地区的Yup'ik传统。选定的基于地点的帐户将被记录为播客，并链接到在线Yup'ik地图集，保存老年人的知识，并使其广泛访问学者和公众。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。