Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers
The Transformation of Inuit Settlement in the Central Arctic
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2002
- Category
- General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773570412
- Publish Date
- Oct 2002
- List Price
- $110.00
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Description
Damas shows that while there were cases of government-directed relocation to centres, centralization was largely voluntary as the Inuit accepted the advantages of village living.In examining archives, anthropological writings, and the results of field research from an anthropological perspective, Damas provides fresh insights into the policies and developments that led to the centralization of Inuit settlement during the 1950s and 1960s.
About the author
David Damas is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at McMaster University. He is a premier scholar of the Arctic and a leading authority on Innuit social structure. His major publications include Igluligmiut Kinship and Local Groupings and contributing editorship of The Smithsonian Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 5: Arctic. In 1975 he embarked on the first of four field trips in Pingelap atoll and Pohnpei Island in Micronesia. This research forms the basis for the present work.
