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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 [First Page] [289], (1) Lines: 0 to 19 ——— 8.81999pt P ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX [289], (1) contributors béatrice collignon is associate professor in geography at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1) of Paris and is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Her main research interests are the intersections of nonscientific (vernacular ) geographic knowledges and academic geography. Her research in the Arctic concentrates on the Inuinnait people of the west-central Canadian Arctic, whom she first met at the age of fifteen. In addition to completing the first comprehensive Inuinnait place names survey, she has studied Inuinnait uses of domestic spaces, looking at the consequences of the shift from igloos to multibedroom houses. Beyond her scholarly writing she has produced two video documentaries in English, one on place names and one on housing. She is the author of Knowing Places: Inuinnait , Landscapes and Environment (cci Press, 2006, edited translation from the French original, 1996). nelson graburn is professor of sociocultural anthropology, curator of North American ethnology for the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and the Thomas Garden Barnes chair of Canadian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has carried out field research in the Canadian Arctic on Inuit kinship, social organization, art, and identity since 1959. He has also researched tourism and internationalization in Japan since 1974. Nelson’s current research focuses on art, tourism, museums, and the expression and representation of identity. He is the authororeditorofseveralbooks,includingEskimoswithoutIgloos(LittleBrown,1969) and Ethnic and Tourist Arts: Cultural Expressions from the Fourth World (California, 1976), and is now preparing books on contemporary tourism in Asia and on multiculturalism in Japan. Nelson also works with Avatak, the Inuit cultural organization of Nunavik (northern Quebec), on aspects of cultural preservation and autonomy and is continuing his research on contemporary Inuit arts, including urban Inuit arts. lori idlout is a young mother of four and the director for policy and planning in the Department Health and Social Services for the government of Nunavut. Lori began her public service career in 1997, as a trainee in the Department of Health and Social Services of the government of the Northwest Territories. The passion and commitment of her mentor grounded her career in the health and social services field. Once the government of Nunavut came into being on April 1, 1999, Lori maintained her position within the Department of Health and Social Services, now within the government of Nunavut. Later that year, she joined the team of highly skilled staff and board members of the Nunavut Social Development Council, a career move that also encouraged her confidence in Inuit self-reliance. She began Contributors 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 [290], (2) Lines: 19 ——— 8.0pt PgV ——— Normal Page PgEnds: T [290], (2) her term there as a policy analyst, later becoming the acting executive director until nsdc was reorganized by Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. This allowed her to rethink her still early career, whereby she accepted a position back with the Department of Health and Social Services as the director for policy and planning. Lori is now the executive director of the Isaksimagit Inuusirmi Katujjigatiglit Embrace Life Council. The council is a Nunavut-wide organization made up of eleven organizations set up to address suicide in Nunavut. carol zane jollesisanassociateprofessorintheAnthropologyDepartment at the University of Washington in Seattle. She began work on identity and religious history in 1987 with the Yup’ik communities of Gambell and Savoonga on St. Lawrence Island. More recently she and her colleague, Herbert Anungazuk, have worked together with the Wales and Little Diomede Island Iñupiaq communities to identify changes impacting community identity in the areas of subsistence and related traditions, with special attention given to attachment to local landscapes. Carol is the author of Faith, Food, and Family in a Yupik Whaling Community (University of Washington Press, 2002). nobuhiro kishigami is associate professor at the National Museum of Ethnology , Osaka, Japan. He has carried out research among Inuit in Nunavik and Montreal , Canada, since 1984. His research interests include marine resource management...

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