Social Science Indigenous Studies
Inuit Worldviews
An Introduction
- Publisher
- Nunavut Arctic College
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2017
- Category
- Indigenous Studies, Folklore & Mythology, Native American Studies
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897568521
- Publish Date
- Nov 2017
- List Price
- $27.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781897568828
- Publish Date
- Sep 2023
- List Price
- $21.95
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Description
An insightful introduction into the production and transmission of knowledge in Inuit societies through the voices of Inuit elders.
This rare book grew out of the Oral Traditions course, held at the Iqaluit campus of Nunavut Arctic College. The college invited Inuit elders to be interviewed, in Inuktitut, by the students taking the course that year. The interviews began across a table, but just weeks into what became an ongoing project, the stories and songs you will find captured here were being told over a cup of tea to students and course facilitators sitting on the floor, as they might have been centuries ago.
Inuit Worldviews effectively introduces the reader to the production and transmission of knowledge in Inuit society and describes the nature of Inuit knowledge. It includes essays by the students, traditional stories, and an instructive glossary. This is a new and updated edition of Interviewing Inuit Elders Vol. 1: Introduction.
About the authors
Jarich Oosten (1945–2016) was emeritus Professor of the Department of Anthropology at Leiden University and the author of numerous publications.
Frédéric B. Laugrand is professor of anthropology at Université Laval and FNRS Fellow at Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium, and co-author of Inuit Shamanism and Christianity: Transitions and Transformation in the Twentieth Century. Jarich G. Oos
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The Recollections of Felix Kupak
The Ethnographic Recordings of Inuit Oral Traditions by Father Guy Mary-Rousseli?re
Surviving in Different Worlds
Transfering Inuit Traditions from Elders to Youth
Perspectives Sur le Droit Traditionnel
Perspectives On Traditional Law (French); Interviewing Inuit Elders: Volume 2
Hardships Of the Past (Inuktitut)
Recollections of Arviat Elders
Traveling and Surviving on our Land
Inuit Perspectives on the 20th Century: Volume 2
Introduction
(French)
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Shamanism and Reintegrating Wrongdoers into the Community
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Inuit Laws
Tirigusuusiit, Piqujait, and Maligait
Between Heaven and Earth
The Recollections of Felix Kupak
The Ethnographic Recordings of Inuit Oral Traditions by Father Guy Mary-Rousseli?re
Surviving in Different Worlds
Transfering Inuit Traditions from Elders to Youth
Perspectives Sur le Droit Traditionnel
Perspectives On Traditional Law (French); Interviewing Inuit Elders: Volume 2
Hardships Of the Past (Inuktitut)
Recollections of Arviat Elders
Introduction
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Introduction (English)
Interviewing Inuit Elders: Volume 1