xxvii, 386pp. [11pp] bw photos, ports. Illustrations, maps, reproductions in text. Light blue endpapers. Dark blue boards w crisp silver lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Colour photo illustrated DJ is clean and without wear. Octavo. Translation from the French by Peter Feldstein of the edition originally published in French, in 2 volumes, (Paris : Plon, 1999).

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Title

Hummocks: Journeys and Inquiries Among the Canadian Inuit

Publisher

McGill Queens Univ Press, Montreal, QC & Kingston, ON, Canada

Publication Date

2007

Language

English

ISBN 10

0773532005

ISBN 13

9780773532007

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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Synopsis

"At the margins of the floes, where their ragged edges have come into grinding contact, the ice is piled up into ridges. These are the hummocks," writes Jean Malaurie.

About the Author

Jean Malaurie is an anthropogeographer, a world-renowned expert on the Inuit, and the founder and director of the Editions Plon's Terre Humaine anthropological series, whose authors include Claude Levi-Strauss and Margaret Mead. He is the author of numero

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