Hummocks: Journeys and Inquiries Among the Canadian Inuit - Couverture rigide

Malaurie, Jean

 
9780773532007: Hummocks: Journeys and Inquiries Among the Canadian Inuit
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0773532005 ISBN 13 : 9780773532007
Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007

Synopsis

"At the margins of the floes, where their ragged edges have come into grinding contact, the ice is piled up into ridges. These are the hummocks," writes Jean Malaurie. More than simple knolls, the jutting ice that emerges over time is, for Jean Malaurie, a metaphor for the process of memory and recollection and Hummocks, the first English translation of the renowned anthropologist's memoir of his expeditions to the Canadian Arctic, is a detailed evocation of Malaurie's travels among the Inuit. Malaurie's exploration of the North spanned a half-century, with voyages to Greenland, the Arctic, Alaska, and Siberia. Hummocks focuses on his expeditions to Back River, Gjoa Haven, Rankin Inlet, and Kujjuaq in northern Quebec during the early 1950s and 1960s, a time when the North was still relatively isolated and the Inuit way of life was at a crucial crossroads. While recounting the many challenges and faced by the young anthropologist, Hummocks explores ideas of Inuit and "hyperborean" civilization, the quest for Inuit independence and self-government, and the "Inuitization" of Christian belief. Haunted by the North and its people, Hummocks is also a dialogue with the great explorers of the North - Amundsen, the Franklin expedition, Ross, and particularly Rasmussen.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jean Malaurie is an anthropogeographer, a world-renowned expert on the Inuit, and the founder and director of the Editions Plon's Terre Humaine anthropological series, whose authors include Claude Levi-Strauss and Margaret Mead. He is the author of numero

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Éditeur
McGill-Queen's University Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0773532005
ISBN 13 
9780773532007
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
424
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