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Social Science Native American Studies

Cosmology and Shamanism

Interviewing Inuit Elders: Volume 4

by (author) Bernard Saladin d'Anglure

Publisher
Nunavut Arctic College
Initial publish date
Jul 2016
Category
Native American Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781896204383
    Publish Date
    Jul 2016
    List Price
    $25.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781897568774
    Publish Date
    Sep 2023
    List Price
    $21.95

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The fourth volume in the Interviewing Inuit Elders series examines two important aspects of Inuit culture, cosmology and shamanism that were in large part suppressed following the introduction of Christianity.
Like other volumes in the five—volume series, the book is based on interviews of elders conducted in 1998 by students in Nunavut Arctic College's Inuit Studies Program at Nunatta Campus in Iqaluit. The course, Cosmology and Shamanism, was directed by Bernard Saladin d'Anglure, who also edited the written account.
Unique to this volume is that the book is based on two different sets of interviews. In addition to the elders interviewed in Iqaluit, the book draws on interviews that the editor conducted in Iglulik in 1972 among elders who had more direct personal experience with shamanism.

About the author

Bernard Saladin d'Anglure is a Canadian anthropologist and ethnographer. His work has primarily concerned itself with the Inuit of Northern Canada, especially practices of shamanism and conceptions of gender. He speaks French, English, and Inuktitut fluently. He is currently Professor Emeritus (Retired) at the Université Laval. He translated Sanaaq into French.

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