Ann Fienup-Riordan

Author of The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks: Agayuliyararput (Our Way of Making Prayer)

About the Author

Ann Fienup-Riordan is an anthropologist who has lived and worked in Alaska for more than forty years. She has written and edited more than twenty books on Yup'ik history and oral traditions.

Image credit: Arctic Studies Center

Works by Ann Fienup-Riordan

Eskimo Essays: Yup'ik Lives and How We See Them (1991) 40 copies

Agayuliyararput : kegginaqut, kangiit-llu = Our way of making prayer : Yup'ik masks and the stories they tell (1996) — Editor — 23 copies

Words of the Real People: Alaska Native Literature in Translation (2007) 22 copies

Yuungnaqpiallerput / The Way We Genuinely Live: Masterworks of Yup'ik Science and Survival (2007) 19 copies

Boundaries and Passages: Rule and Ritual in Yup'Ik Eskimo Oral Tradition (1994) 19 copies

Wise Words of the Yup'ik People: We Talk to You because We Love You (2005) 16 copies

Yup'ik Words of Wisdom: Yupiit Qanruyutait (2005) 14 copies

Freeze Frame: Alaska Eskimos in the Movies (1995) 13 copies

Hunting Tradition in a Changing World: Yup'ik Lives in Alaska Today (2000) 13 copies

The Nelson Island Eskimo: Social Structure and Ritual Distribution (Alaskana book series) (1983) 10 copies

Stories for Future Generations / Qulirat Qanemcit-llu Kinguvarcimalriit: The Oratory of Yup'ik Elder Paul John (2003) 10 copies

Yup'ik elders at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin : fieldwork turned on its head (2005) — Author — 8 copies

Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather: Continuity and Change on the Bering Sea Coast (2012) 7 copies

Our Nelson Island Stories (2011) — Editor — 7 copies

The Real People and the Children of Thunder: The Yup'ik Eskimo Encounter With Moravian Missionaries John and Edith Kilbuck (1991) 7 copies

Artists Behind the Work: Life Histories of Nick Charles, Sr., Frances Demientieff, Lena Sours, Jennie Thlunaut (1986) 7 copies

Ciuliamta akluit/Things of our ancestors : Yup'ik elders explore the Jacobsen Collection at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin (2005) 6 copies

Mission of Change in Southwest Alaska: Conversations with Father Rene Astruc and Paul Dixon on Their Work with Yup'ik People (2012) 5 copies

Yungcautnguuq Nunam Qainga Tamarmi/All the Land's Surface is Medicine: Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska (Snowy Owl) (2021) 5 copies

Wise Words of the Yup'ik People: We Talk to You because We Love You, New Edition (2018) 4 copies

Yuungnaqpiallerput / The Way We Genuinely Live: Masterworks of Yup'ik Science and Survival 4 copies

Ciulinerunak yuuyaqunak = : Do not live without an elder : the subsistence way of life in southwest Alaska (2016) 3 copies

Qanemcit Amllertut/Many Stories to Tell: Tales of Humans and Animals from Southwest Alaska (2017) 3 copies

Yup'ik Words of Wisdom: Yupiit Qanruyutait, New Edition (2018) 3 copies

Where the Echo Began: and Other Oral Traditions from Southwestern Alaska Recorded by Hans Himmelheber (2000) 3 copies

Nunakun-gguq Ciutengqertut/They Say They Have Ears Through the Ground: Animal Essays from Southwest Alaska (2020) 3 copies

Tengautuli Atkuk / The Flying Parka: The Meaning and Making of Parkas in Southwest Alaska (2023) 2 copies

Angalkut/Shamans in Yup'ik Oral Tradition (Path to Open) (2025) 2 copies

Yup'ik Elders at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin: Fieldwork Turned on Its Head. (2005) 1 copy

Yup'ik Words of Wisdom: Yupiit Qanruyutait 1 copy

Ciulirnerunak Yuuyaqunak = Do not live without an elder : the subsistence way of life in Southwest Alaska (2016) 1 copy

The Living Tradition of the Yup'ik Masks - AGAYULIYARARPUT Our Way of Making Prager 1 copy, 1 review

Yungcautnguuq Nunam Qainga Tamarmi/All the Land's Surface is Medicine: Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska (Snowy Owl) 1 copy

The Yup’ik Eskimos. 1 copy

Kusquqvagmiut Neqait: Fish and Food of the People of the Kuskokwim (2020) 1 copy

The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks Agayuliyararput Our Way of Making Prayer 1 copy

Shape up with baby: Exercise games for the new parent and child (1980) 1 copy

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Associated Works

Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community (2001) — Contributor — 34 copies

Gifts from the ancestors : ancient ivories of Bering Strait (2009) — Contributor — 15 copies

Arctic Crashes: People and Animals in the Changing North (2020) — Contributor — 3 copies

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