Quaqtaq: modernity and identity in an Inuit community
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Main Author: Dorais, Louis-Jacques (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto, Ont. University of Toronto Press c1997
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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&w photographs
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 132 p.)
ISBN:1442678933
9780802041050
9780802079527
9781442678934

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