Quaqtaq : modernity and identity in an Inuit community /

Comprises an ethnographic study of the small, predominantly Inuit village of Quaqtaq in Nunavik in arctic Quebec. The author focuses on the interaction between modernity and tradition in residents' relations with the outside world and, more specifically, in cultural identity. Includes a few b &...

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Autor principal: Dorais, Louis-Jacques, 1945-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©1997.
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Taula de continguts:
  • On modernity, identity and Quaqtaq
  • Qallunaaqalaurtinagu: When there were no Qallkunaat
  • Formation of a community
  • Quaqtaq in the 1990s
  • Some fundamentals of identity
  • Quaqtaq and the world
  • Appendix Q: Historical events in Tuvaaluk and Quaqtaq, 1910-1990
  • Appendix B: Adult deaths in Tuvaaluk and Quaqtaq, 1941-1992
  • Appendix C: Peterhead boats in Tuvaaluk, 1930-1967
  • References
  • Index.