Ann Fienup-Riordan

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. 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 traveled to the National Museum of the American Indian, New York, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History,...