Living on the Land: Northern Baffin Inuit Respond to Change - Couverture souple

Matthiasson, John S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1442601280 ISBN 13 : 9781442601284

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 1992

Synopsis

As recently as three decades ago most Inuit lived a lifestyle much like that of their forbearers: living on the land, with the men hunting according to time-honoured methods and the women performing the same round of daily tasks that their grandmothers and great grandmothers had done.

Today these people typically live in settlements, some of them distinctly urban in character. Adults work for wages and use electric appliances, children listen to stereos and run about the settlement on motorbikes. As anthropologist John Matthiasson observes, the Inuit child of today may look back in fond nostalgia on the lifestyle of his parents when they lived on the land, but he cannot return to it. Matthiasson, who has remained in contact with the Tununermiut since the 1960s, offers both a vivid picture of Inuit society as it was and an illuminating look at the nature and the extent of the enormous changes of the past thirty years.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The late John S. Matthaisson was a professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Manitoba, specializing in the ethnography of far-north cultures.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1442601280
• ISBN 13: 9781442601284
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 172
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• Personne responsable: non disponible