Inuit stories of being and rebirth : gender, shamanism, and the third sex / Bernard Saladin d'Anglure ; translated by Peter Frost ; preface by Clade Levi-Strauss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saladin d'Anglure, Bernard, Author.

Contributor:

Frost, Peter, 1955- translator.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, writer of preface.

Series:

Contemporary studies on the North ; 6.

Contemporary Studies on the North

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inuit--Canada.

Inuit.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 pages).

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English; translated from French.

Summary:

"The small island of Igloolik lies between the Melville Peninsula and Baffin Island at the northern end of Hudson Bay north of the Arctic Circle. It has fascinated many in the Western world since 1824, when a London publisher printed the narratives by William Parry and his second-in-command, George Lyon, about their two years spent looking for the mythical Northwest Passage. Nearly a hundred and fifty years later, Bernard Saladin d'Anglure arrived in Igloolik, hoping to complete the study he had been conducting for nearly six months in Arctic Quebec (present-day Nunavik). He was supposed to spend a month on Igloolik, but on his first morning there, Saladin d'Anglure met the elders Ujarak and Iqallijuq. He learned that they had been informants for Knud Rasmussen in 1922. Moreover, they had spent most of their lives in the camps and fully remembered the pre-Christian period. Ujarak and Iqallijuq soon became Saladin d'Anglure's friends and initiated him into the symbolism, myths, beliefs, and ancestral rules of the local Inuit. With them and their families, Saladin d'Anglure would work for thirty years, gathering the oral traditions of their people. First published in French in 2006, Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth contains an in-depth, paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of stories on womb memories, birth, namesaking, and reincarnation. This new English edition introduces this material to a broader audience and contains a new afterword by Saladin d'Anglure."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface to the 2006 Edition

Igloolik Island, a Mythical Place

The Storytellers

Iqallijuq, Ujarak, Kupaaq, and the Others

Song of Saittuq

Savviurtalik Is Reincarnated

Iqallijuq Remembering

Inuit Genesis and the Desire for Children

Naarjuk: The Giant Baby with Prominent Genitals and the Master of Sila

Incestuous Moon Brother Chases Sun Sister

A Headstrong Daughter: The Mother of All Human Races and All Marine Mammals

A Cheated Husband and Thwarted Love in the Animal World

Girls Should Not Play at Marriage

A Battered Wife Chooses to Be Reborn in Animal Forms, Then as a Man

Kaujjajjuk, a Mistreated Orphan Rescued by the Moon Man

The Danger of Being Impregnated by a Spirit When You Have a Jealous Husband

Itirjuaq, the First Woman Healer

The Strange Man and His Whale

Atanaarjuat, the Fast Runner: A Mythical Hero

Ataguttaaluk, the Cannibal Forebear (or The Birth of a Myth)

Qisaruatsiaq: Back to Her Mothers Womb

Conclusion

Afterword

Glossary of Inuktitut Terms

Notes

Bibliography

Photo Credits

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780887555596

0887555594

9780887555572

0887555578

OCLC:

1080389835