Author: Frédéric B. Laugrand Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773576363 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 488
Book Description
Using archival material and oral testimony collected during workshops in Nunavut between 1996 and 2008, Frédéric Laugrand and Jarich Oosten provide a nuanced look at Inuit religion, offering a strong counter narrative to the idea that traditional Inuit culture declined post-contact. They show that setting up a dichotomy between a past identified with traditional culture and a present involving Christianity obscures the continuity and dynamics of Inuit society, which has long borrowed and adapted "outside" elements. They argue that both Shamanism and Christianity are continually changing in the Arctic and ideas of transformation and transition are necessary to understand both how the ideology of a hunting society shaped Inuit Christian cosmology and how Christianity changed Inuit shamanic traditions.
Author: Frédéric Laugrand Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1782384065 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 418
Book Description
Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. The authors examine key figures such as the raven, an animal that has a central place in Inuit culture as a creator and a trickster, and qupirruit, a category consisting of insects and other small life forms. After these non-social and inedible animals, they discuss the dog, the companion of the hunter, and the fellow hunter, the bear, considered to resemble a human being. A discussion of the renewal of whale hunting accompanies the chapters about animals considered ‘prey par excellence’: the caribou, the seals and the whale, symbol of the whole. By giving precedence to Inuit categories such as ‘inua’ (owner) and ‘tarniq’ (shade) over European concepts such as ‘spirit ‘and ‘soul’, the book compares and contrasts human beings and animals to provide a better understanding of human-animal relationships in a hunting society.
Author: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) Publisher: Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique ISBN: Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 594
Book Description
Papers and posters from the seventh Northern Libraries Colloquy, 1978, with an emphasis on bibliography, filmography, museums and archives as well as library resources.
Author: Howard A. Norman Publisher: Pantheon ISBN: 9780679740360 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 372
Book Description
A collection of folktales of the native peoples, both Indian and Eskimo, of the Arctic, including Canada, Alaska, Russia and Greenland. Includes source notes, maps, drawings and bibliography.
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