The Inuit World

ISBN-13: 9781032106922 / Miękka / 2023 / 444 str.

Opis

The Inuit World is a robust and holistic reference source to contemporary Inuit life from the intimate world of the household to the global stage.

Spis treści

nuit Worlds: An Introduction  Part 1: Placing Inuit Worlds  1. Ancestral Landscapes: Archaeology and Long Term Inuit History  2. Enduring Social Communities of the Inuvialuit: From the Yukon North Slope to the Circumpolar Stage  3. Tourism and Archaeology in Nunatsiavut  4. Nipivut and the Restorying of Inuit Life in Montreal  5. Urban Inuit in Canada: A Case Study of Ottawa  6. Building Booms and Shipping Container Housing: Geographies of Urbanization and Homelessness in Nuuk, Greenland  Part 2: Moral, Spiritual, and Intellectual Worlds  7. Resource Exploration and Extraordinary Happenings in Greenland’s Coastal Northwest  8. Changing Times for People and Polar Bears  9. Speaking the Inuit language in the 2020s  10. Inuit Bilingual Education  11. Literacy and Christianity in Greenland  12. Social intersections of Inuit and biomedical models of health  Part 3: Intimate and Everyday Worlds  13. Real Northern Men: Performing Masculinity and Culture in Ulukhaktok, Canada  14. Keeping Busy in Savissivik: Women and Work in Northwest Greenland  15. "I Don´t Even Sew for Myself Anymore": The Role of Sewing in a Northern Inuit Economy  16. "We are Starving for Our Food": Country Food (In)Security in Inuvik, Northwest Territories  17. Social Relations among Inuit: Tuqluraqtuq and Ilagiitt  Part 4: Social and Political Worlds  18. Indigenous Westphalian Sovereignty? Decolonization, Secession and Indigenous Rights in Greenland  19. Inuit Nunangat: The Development of a Common Inuit Territorial and Policy Space in Canada  20. Energy Extraction, Resistance, and Political Change in Inuit Nunangat  21. Aksunai (Be Strong): Inuit Women's Leadership in Labrador  22. Challenges for Greenland’s Social Policies: How We Meet the Call for Social and Political Awareness  23. Re-claiming Inuit Governance and Revitalizing Autonomy in NunatuKavut  24. The Predicament of Sustainability: Solutions in Greenland  Afterword

O autorze

Pamela Stern is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, Canada.