Critical Inuit studies : an anthology of contemporary Arctic ethnography / edited by Pamela Stern and Lisa Stevenson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stern, Pamela R., 1958-

Stevenson, Lisa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inuit--History.

Inuit.

Inuit--Politics and government.

Inuit--Social life and customs.

History.

Physical Description:

302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2006]

Summary:

Over the past decade, some of the most innovative work in anthropology and related fields has been done in the Native communities of circumpolar North America. Critical Inuit Studies offers an overview of the current state of Inuit studies by bringing together the insights and fieldwork of more than a dozen scholars from six countries currently working with Native communities in the far north. The volume showcases the latest methodologies and interpretive perspectives, presents a multitude of instructive case studies with individuals and communities, and shares the personal and professional insights from the fieldwork and thought of distinguished researchers.

The wide-ranging topics in this collection include the development of a circumpolar research policy; the complex identities of Inuit in the twenty-first century; the transformative relationship between anthropologist and collaborator; the participatory method of conducting research; the interpretation of body gesture and the reproduction of culture; the use of translation in oral history, memory and the construction of a collective Inuit identity; the intricate relationship between politics, indigenous citizenship and resource development; the importance of place names; housing policies and the transition from igloos to permanent houses; and social networks in the urban setting of Montreal. Critical Inuit Studies is essential reading for students and scholars interested in today's circumpolar North and in contemporary Native communities.

Contents:

Introduction / Lisa Stevenson

Flora and me / Molly Lee

Listening to elders, working with youth / Carol Zane Jolles

Participatory anthropology in Nunavut / Michael J. Kral and Lori Idlout

Time, space, and memory / Murielle Nagy

Anthropology in an era of Inuit empowerment / Edmund (Ned) Searles

Land claims, development, and the pipeline to citizenship / Pamela Stern

Cultural survival and the trade in Iglulingmiut traditions / Nancy Wachowich

Culture as narrative / Nelson Graburn

Six gestures / Peter Kulchyski

The ethical injunction to remember / Lisa Stevenson

Inuit place names and sense of place / Béatrice Collignon

Inuit social networks in an urban setting / Nobuhiro Kishigami

Inuit geographical knowledge one hundred years apart / Ludger Müller-Wille and Linna Weber Müller-Wille

Iglu to Iglurjuaq / Frank James Tester

From area studies to cultural studies to critical Inuit studies / Pamela Stern.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-287) and index.

ISBN:

0803243030

0803293488

OCLC:

61859835

Publisher Number:

9780803243033

9780803293489