Beyond Darkness and Sleep: The Inuit Night in North Baffin Island (Societe D'Etudes Linguistiques Et Anthropologiques de France)

Bordin, Guy

ISBN 10: 9042931396 / ISBN 13: 9789042931398

Published by Peeters Pub & Booksellers, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beyond Darkness and Sleep: The Inuit Night in North Baffin Island (Societe D'Etudes Linguistiques Et Anthropologiques de France)
• Publisher: Peeters Pub & Booksellers
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9042931396
• ISBN 13: 9789042931398
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Neuf
• Weight: 720 grams

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Synopsis

This is a place where night is dark, like everywhere else, and bright, like nowhere else. This is a people for whom sleep belongs to nighttime, but who nonetheless favor nocturnal wakefulness. This is a people for whom almost any activity seems more appealing than sleep. This is a people for whom darkness did not mean evil, until the arrival of Christianity. This is a culture which, without totally rejecting binary or dualistic schemes, tends to favor the notion of continuity between events, beings and objects: between night and day, dark and light, dreaming and conscious life. This is a people adept at radical pragmatism. This is a people for whom words have always been powerful. This is a people with a unique experience of "nocturnity". This book is an invitation to enter the realm of the North Baffin Island Inuit night.