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MARC recordKnowing places: the Inuinnait, landscapes, and the environment / Béatrice Collignon ; translation and scientific editing by Müller-White.
| Title: | Knowing places: the Inuinnait, landscapes, and the environment / Béatrice Collignon ; translation and scientific editing by Müller-White. |
| Author(s): | Collignon, Béatrice. |
| Date: | 2006. |
| Publisher: | Edmonton, Alta.: Canadian Circumpolar Institute |
| Abstract: | Discusses geographic knowledge of Inuit of central Canadian Arctic, and explores importance of land in construction of identity. Notes that Inuinnait geographic knowledge is organised around three central concepts: relativity, connectivity and subjectivity. Such knowledge involves mixture of practical skills (e.g. orientation and meteorology) and oral tradition (e.g. stories and place names remembered). |
| Keywords: | 39 -- Ethnography: Inuit. 113/119 -- Attitudes to nature. 291.8 -- Oral history. 398 -- Native peoples, folk beliefs and tales. 527 -- Navigation. 801.311 -- Place-names. 809.475 -- Eskimo-Aleut languages. T -- Social anthropology and ethnography. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*41) -- Canada. |
| Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*41) : 398.32(=562)[2006] |
| ISBN: | 1896445330 |
| SPRI record no.: | 185855 |
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