Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley (November 8, 1934 – April 27, 2011), best known as Oscar Kawagley, was a Yup'ikanthropologist, teacher and actor from Alaska. He was an associate professor of education at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks until his death in 2011. The Anchorage Daily News described him as "one of (Alaska's) most influential teachers and thinkers".[1]
Kawagley's 1995 book A Yupiaq Worldview: a Pathway to Ecology and Spirit[2] was an attempt to reconcile indigenous and Western worldviews from an indigenous perspective, and was an important contribution to the field of ethnoecology. In the book he developed the concept of "indigenous methodology", explaining how western science can benefit from native ways of understanding and vice versa.[3]
Oscar's acting career included a major role in the independent 1991 film Salmonberries, starring k.d. lang. He appeared in the television show Northern Exposure, and contributed his voice to the elderly Denahi in the 2003 Disney film Brother Bear.[citation needed]
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He died of cancer in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 2011 at the age of 76. His ashes were scattered after his cremation.
Publicationsedit
Kawagley, A. O. (2006). A Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit. United States: Waveland Press.[2]
^"Yup'ik scholar Oscar Kawagley dies at 76". Anchorage Daily News. April 27, 2011. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
^ abKawagley, A. Oscar (2006). A Yupiaq worldview : a pathway to ecology and spirit (2nd ed.). Long Grove, Ill.: Waveland Press. ISBN9781577663843. Retrieved May 23, 2022.
^Archibald, Jo-Ann; Barnhardt, Ray; Cajete, Gregory A.; Cochran, Patricia; McKinley, Elizabeth; Merculieff, Larry (January 1, 2007). "The work of Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley". Cultural Studies of Science Education. 2 (1): 11–17. doi:10.1007/s11422-007-9048-y. S2CID 144637908.
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