Quaqtaq : Modernity and Identity in an Inuit Community
Louis-Jacques Dorais
How, in a world that is drastically changing, can the Inuit preserve their identity? Louis-Jacques Dorais explores this question in Quaqtaq, the first ethnography of a contemporary Canadian Inuit community to be published in over twenty-five years. The community of Quaqtaq is a small village on Hudson Strait where hunting and gathering are still the mainstays of life. In this description of Quaqtaq, based on data collected over a thirty-year period, we get a glimpse of its early cultural history, its development into a settled community, and its present realities. Dorais identifies three principal manifestations of local identity - kinship, religion, and language - that persist despite the brutal intrusion of modernity. He concludes by examining the role politics and education have played in the relationship between Quaqtaq and the outside world.Quaqtaq is a unique and important study that will be of interest to scholars, administrators, and citizens of Inuit and other native communities.
సంవత్సరం:
1997
ముద్రణం:
1
ప్రచురణకర్త:
University of Toronto Press
భాష:
english
పేజీల సంఖ్య:
153
ISBN 10:
1442678933
ISBN 13:
9781442678934
ఫైల్:
PDF, 8.16 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1997