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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813471903321

Autore

Dorais Louis-Jacques <1945->

Titolo

Quaqtaq : modernity and identity in an Inuit community / / Louis-Jacques Dorais

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001

©1997

ISBN

1-281-99761-7

9786611997618

1-4426-7893-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Disciplina

306/.089/9710714111

Soggetti

Inuit - Cultural assimilation - Québec (Province) - Quaqtaq

Inuit - Québec (Province) - Quaqtaq - Ethnic identity

Inuit - Québec (Province) - Quaqtaq - Social conditions

Livres numeriques.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Quaqtaq (Québec) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

On modernity, identity and Quaqtaq -- Qallunaaqalaurtinagu: When there were no Qallkunaat -- Formation of a community -- Quaqtaq in the 1990s -- Some fundamentals of identity -- Quaqtaq and the world -- Appendix Q: Historical events in Tuvaaluk and Quaqtaq, 1910-1990 -- Appendix B: Adult deaths in Tuvaaluk and Quaqtaq, 1941-1992 -- Appendix C: Peterhead boats in Tuvaaluk, 1930-1967 -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Comprises an ethnographic study of the small, predominantly Inuit village of Quaqtaq in Nunavik in arctic Quebec. The author focuses on the interaction between modernity and tradition in residents' relations with the outside world and, more specifically, in cultural identity. Includes a few b & w photographs.