Social Science Native American Studies
Representing Tuurngait
Memory and History in Nunavut Volume One
- Publisher
- Nunavut Arctic College
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2012
- Category
- Native American Studies, Folklore & Mythology
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781896204444
- Publish Date
- Feb 2012
- List Price
- $40.00
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Description
Tuurngait was the most common word used to describe the helping spirits of an angakkuq (shaman). Tuurngait could take any form but were most commonly humans, animals, or animal bodies with a human head. This book collects descriptions and drawings of 347 tuurngait as described to ethnographers Edmund James Peck and Knud Rasmussen in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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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François Trudel is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval.
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