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Inuit, whalers, and cultural persistence : structure in Cumberland Sound and central Inuit social organization / Marc G. Stevenson.
- Title
- Inuit, whalers, and cultural persistence : structure in Cumberland Sound and central Inuit social organization / Marc G. Stevenson.
- Author
- Stevenson, Marc
- Publication
- Toronto ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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- Description
- xxii, 400 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Although the environment does play a major role in shaping the central Arctic Inuit political, social, and economic landscape, many aspects of Inuit society are determined culturally. This book assesses these factors and concludes with an examination of the politics of survival.
- Subject
- Inuit > Nunavut > Cumberland Sound > Social life and customs
- Social structure > Nunavut > Cumberland Sound
- Inuit > Cultural assimilation > Nunavut > Cumberland Sound
- Inuit > Territoires du Nord-Ouest > Cumberland, Baie de > Moeurs et coutumes
- Structure sociale > Territoires du Nord-Ouest > Cumberland, Baie de
- Inuit > Territoires du Nord-Ouest > Cumberland, Baie de > Influence étrangère
- Cumberland Sound (Nunavut) > Social conditions
- Baffin Island (Nunavut) > Social conditions
- Note
- Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--1993) under the title: Central Inuit social structure.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-358) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Eskimo Type Kinship and Social Organization -- 2. Cumberland Sound Before Qallunaat -- 3. Cumberland Sound Inuit-Qallunaat Interaction to 1970 -- 4. Culture Change and Continuity, 1840-1970 -- 5. Cumberland Sound Inuit Kin and Local Groups, 1920-1970 -- 6. The Structure of Cumberland Sound Inuit Social Organization -- 7. Cumberland Sound Inuit Prehistory Revisited -- 8. Iglulingmiut and Netsilingmiut Social Organization -- 9. The Copper Inuit: Antithesis of Central Inuit Social Structure? -- 10. Canadian Arctic Prehistory Reconsidered -- 11. Central Inuit Social Structure and Kinship Theory -- 12. The Politics of Survival: Central Inuit Social Structure and Nunavut -- Glossary of Common Inuktitut Terms Used in Text -- Glossary of Common Anthropological Terms Used in Text.
- ISBN
- 0195412176 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^97158501^
- OCLC
- 37154876
- SCSB-11170501
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library