Social Science Native American Studies
Surviving in Different Worlds
Transfering Inuit Traditions from Elders to Youth
- Publisher
- Nunavut Arctic College
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2016
- Category
- Native American Studies
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781896204703
- Publish Date
- Jul 2016
- List Price
- $15.00
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Description
Surviving in Different Worlds presents information from two workshops that brought Nunavut elders and young people together to discuss Inuit traditional knowledge. In these workshops, Inuit elders discussed a variety of topics including survival, marriage, shamanism, and legends.
About the authors
Jarich Oosten (1945–2016) was emeritus Professor of the Department of Anthropology at Leiden University and the author of numerous publications.
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