Apostle to the Inuit : the journals and ethnographic notes of Edmund James Peck, the Baffin years, 1894-1905 / / edited by Frédéric Laugrand, Jarich Oosten, and François Trudel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456523803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2006; ©2006
• ISBN: 1-281-99179-1; 9786611991791; 1-4426-7091-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (513 p.)
• Disciplina: 266/.3092
• Soggetti: Inuit - Missions - Nunavut - Baffin Island; Missionaries - Nunavut - Baffin Island; Inuit - Nunavut - Baffin Island; Electronic books.
• 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: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Map - Cumberland Sound -- 1. The Founding of an Anglican Mission on Baffin Island, 1894-1905 -- PART ONE. The Journals -- 2. Eleven Years among the Inuit of Cumberland Sound, 1894-1905 -- 3. Journal, 1894-1895 -- 4. Journal, 1895-1896 -- 5. Journal, 1897-1898 -- 6. Letter, 1899 -- 7. Journal, 1900-1901 -- 8. Journal, 1902 -- 9. Journal, 1903-1904 -- 10. Journal, 1904-1905 -- PART TWO. The Ethnographic Documents -- 11. The Ethnography of Peck -- 12. The Eskimos, Their Beliefs, Characteristics, and Needs -- 13. Describing 'Heathen Customs' -- 14. Eve Nooeyout -- 15. Oosotapik -- 16. Qoojessie -- 17. The Tuurngait -- 18. List of Spirits by the Missionary E.J. Peck -- Notes -- References -- Index of Names
• Sommario/riassunto: Apostle to the Inuit presents the journals and ethnographical notes of Reverend Edmund James Peck, an Anglican missionary who opened the first mission among the Inuit of Baffin Island in 1894. He stayed until ; 1905, and by that time, had firmly established Christianity in the North. He became known to the Inuit as 'Uqammaq,' the one who talks well. His colleagues knew him as 'Apostle among the Eskimo.'Peck's diaries of the period focus on his missionary work and the adoption of Christianity by the Inuit and provide an impressive account of the daily life and work of the early missionaries in Baffin Island. His ethnographic data was collected at the request of famed anthropologist Franz Boas in 1897. Peck conducted extensive research on Inuit oral traditions and presents several detailed verbatim accounts of shamanic traditions and practises. This work continues to be of great value for a better understanding of Inuit culture and history but was never before published.Apostle to the Inuit demonstrates how a Christian missionary who was bitterly opposed to shamanism, became a devoted researcher of this complex tradition. Editors Frédéric Laugrand, Jarich Oosten, and François Trudel highlight the relationships between Europeans and Inuit and discuss central issues facing native peoples and missionaries in the North. They also present a selection of fascinating drawings made by Inuit at the request of Peck, which illustrate Inuit life on Baffin Island at the turn of the twentieth century. The book offers important new data on the history of the missions among the Inuit as well as on the history of Inuit religion and the anthropological study of Inuit oral traditions.

Poèmes antiques et modernes / Alfred De Vigny ; préface de Marcel Arland

• Record Nr.: UNICASRML0292036
• Autore: Vigny, Alfred : de <OMONIMO NON IDENTIFICATO>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Paris, : Gallimard, ©1973
• ISBN: 2070320499
• Edizione: [3. éd. revue]
• Descrizione fisica: 315 p. ; 18 cm
• Collana: Poésie
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Non definito
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

A cheerful and comfortable faith : Anglican religious practice in the elite households of eighteenth-century Virginia / / Lauren F. Winner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910966769703321
• Autore: Winner Lauren F
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 9780300168662; 0300168667
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource (ix, 272 p.) ) : ill
• Disciplina: 283/.75509033
• Soggetti: HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775); Virginia Religious life and customs
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: With cold water and silver bowls : becoming an Anglican in eighteenth-century Virginia -- Becoming a "Christian woman" : needlework and girls' religious formation -- People of the book: liturgical culture and ; the domestic uses of prayer books -- Sarah Foote Stuart's fish sauce: the liturgical year around the table -- To comfort the living : the household choreography of death and mourning -- Epilogue. Lucy Smith Digges's "Little old fashioned oblong black walnut" table : household religious practice in Episcopalian Virginia.
• Sommario/riassunto: This enlightening book examines the physical objects found in elite Virginia households of the eighteenth century to discover what they can tell us about their owners' lives and religious practices. Lauren F. Winner looks closely at punch bowls, needlework, mourning jewelry, baptismal gowns, biscuit molds, cookbooks, and many other items, illuminating the ways Anglicanism influenced daily activities and attitudes in colonial Virginia, particularly in the households of the gentry.