In this Book
- Critical Inuit Studies: An Anthology of Contemporary Arctic Ethnography
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
The wide-ranging topics in this collection include the development of a circumpolar research policy; the complex identities of Inuit in the twenty-first century; the transformative relationship between anthropologist and collaborator; the participatory method of conducting research; the interpretation of body gesture and the reproduction of culture; the use of translation in oral history, memory and the construction of a collective Inuit identity; the intricate relationship between politics, indigenous citizenship and resource development; the importance of place names, housing policies and the transition from igloos to permanent houses; and social networks in the urban setting of Montreal.
Critical Inuit Studies is essential reading for students and scholars interested in today’s circumpolar North and in contemporary Native communities.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- pp. 1-22
- Part 1: Figuring Method
- 1. Flora and Me
- pp. 25-34
- 4. Time, Space, and Memory
- pp. 71-88
- Part 2: Reconfiguring Categories: Culture
- 8. Culture as Narrative
- pp. 139-154
- 9. Six Gestures
- pp. 155-167
- 10. The Ethical Injunction to Remember
- pp. 168-183
- Part 3: Reconfiguring Categories: Place
- 11. Inuit Place Names and Sense of Place
- pp. 187-205
- 14. Iglu to Iglurjuaq
- pp. 230-252
- Bibliography
- pp. 267-287
- Contributors
- pp. 289-293