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Social Science Native American Studies

Introduction (English)

Interviewing Inuit Elders: Volume 1

by (author) Frederic B. Laugrand & Jarich Oosten

Publisher
Nunavut Arctic College
Initial publish date
Feb 2012
Category
Native American Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781896204314
    Publish Date
    Feb 2012
    List Price
    $40.00

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Description

The Interviewing Inuit Elders Series grew out of the Oral Traditions course held at the Iqaluit campus of Nunavut Arctic College in 1996. The College invited Inuit elders to be interviewed, in Inuktitut, by the eight students taking the course that year. The interviews began across a table but just weeks into what is now an ongoing project, the stories and songs you will find captured here were being told over a cup of tea to students and course facilitators sitting on the floor, as they might have been centuries ago.
This is volume one in the Interviewing Inuit Elders series and contains life stories, essays, and myths from the elders.

About the authors

Frédéric B. Laugrand is professor of anthropology at Université Laval and FNRS Fellow at Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium, and co-author of Inuit Shamanism and Christianity: Transitions and Transformation in the Twentieth Century. Jarich G. Oos

Frederic B. Laugrand's profile page

Jarich Oosten (1945–2016) was emeritus Professor of the Department of Anthropology at Leiden University and the author of numerous publications.

Jarich Oosten's profile page