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Author : Leah Otak
Release : 2014
Genre : Inuit
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 170/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Inuit Kinship and Naming Customs in Baffin Region by : Leah Otak
Download or read book Inuit Kinship and Naming Customs in Baffin Region written by Leah Otak. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louise Flaherty
Release : 2014-04-02
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 713/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Inuit Kinship and Naming Customs by : Louise Flaherty
Download or read book Inuit Kinship and Naming Customs written by Louise Flaherty. This book was released on 2014-04-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of interviews with Inuit elders from Arviat, Nunavut, about traditional family naming and kinship customs.
Author : Valerie Alia
Release : 2007
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 653/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Names and Nunavut by : Valerie Alia
Download or read book Names and Nunavut written by Valerie Alia. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On the surface, naming is simply a way to classify people and their environments. The premise of this study is that it is much more -- a form of social control, a political activity, a key to identity maintenance and transformation. Governments legislate and regulate naming; people fight to take, keep, or change their names. A name change can indicate subjugation or liberation, depending on the circumstances. But it always signifies a change in power relations. Since the late 1970s, the author has looked at naming and renaming, cross-culturally and internationally, with particular attention to the effects of colonisation and liberation. The experience of Inuit in Canada is an example of both. Colonisation is only part of the Nunavut experience. Contrary to the dire predictions of cultural genocide theorists, Inuit culture-- particularly traditional naming -- has remained extremely strong, and is in the midst of a renaissance. Here is a ground-breaking study by the founder of the discipline of political onomastics."--Pub. website.
Author : Louis-Jacques Dorais
Release : 2020-09-18
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 631/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Words of the Inuit by : Louis-Jacques Dorais
Download or read book Words of the Inuit written by Louis-Jacques Dorais. This book was released on 2020-09-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Words of the Inuit" is an important compendium of Inuit culture illustrated through Inuit words. It brings the sum of the author’s decades of experience and engagement with Inuit and Inuktitut to bear on what he fashions as an amiable, leisurely stroll through words and meanings. Inuit words are often more complex than English words and frequently contain small units of meaning that add up to convey a larger sensibility. Dorais’ lexical and semantic analyses and reconstructions are not overly technical, yet they reliably evince connections and underlying significations that allow for an in-depth reflection on the richness of Inuit linguistic and cultural heritage and identity. An appendix on the polysynthetic character of Inuit languages includes more detailed grammatical description of interest to more specialist readers. Organized thematically, the book tours the histories and meanings of the words to illuminate numerous aspects of Inuit culture, including environment and the land; animals and subsistence activities; humans and spirits; family, kinship, and naming; the human body; and socializing with other people in the contemporary world. It concludes with a reflection on the usefulness for modern Inuit—especially youth and others looking to strengthen their cultural identity —to know about the underlying meanings embedded in their language and culture. With recent reports alerting us to the declining use of the Inuit language in the North, "Words of the Inuit" is a timely contribution to understanding one of the world’s most resilient Indigenous languages.
Author : Pamela Stern
Release : 2021-11-23
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 137/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Inuit World by : Pamela Stern
Download or read book The Inuit World written by Pamela Stern. This book was released on 2021-11-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inuit World is a robust and holistic reference source to contemporary Inuit life from the intimate world of the household to the global stage. Organized around the themes of physical worlds, moral, spiritual and intellectual worlds, intimate and everyday worlds, and social and political worlds, this book includes ethnographically rich contributions from a range of scholars, including Inuit and other Indigenous authors. The book considers regional, social, and cultural differences as well as the shared histories and common cultural practices that allow us to recognize Inuit as a single, distinct Indigenous people. The chapters demonstrate both the historical continuity of Inuit culture and the dynamic ways that Inuit people have responded to changing social, environmental, political, and economic conditions. Chapter topics include ancestral landscapes, tourism and archaeology, resource extraction and climate change, environmental activism, and women’s leadership. This book is an invaluable resource for students and researchers in anthropology, Indigenous studies, and Arctic studies and those in related fields including geography, history, sociology, political science, and education.
