Living on the Land: Change Among the Inuit of Baffin Island
Language: English
Published by University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division, 1992
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- Softcover
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In Very Good Used Condition. A Few Dog Ears. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. - As Recently As Three Decades Ago Most Inuit Lived A Lifestyle Much Like That Of Their Forbearers: "Living On The Land," With The Men Hunting According To Time-Honoured Methods And The Women Performing The Same Round Of Daily Tasks That Their Grandmothers And Great Grandmothers Had Done. Today These People Typically Live In Settlements, Some Of Them Distinctly Urban In Character. Adults Work For Wages And Use Electric Appliances, Children Listen To Stereos And Run About The Settlement On Motorbikes. As Anthropologist John Matthiasson Observes, "The Inuit Child Of Today May Look Back In Fond Nostalgia On The Lifestyle Of His Parents When They Lived On The Land, But He Cannot Return To It." Matthiasson, Who Has Remained In Contact With The Tununermiut Since The 1960S, Offers Both A Vivid Picture Of Inuit Society As It Was And An Illuminating Look At The Nature And The Extent Of The Enormous Changes Of The Past Thirty Years.…
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- Title
- Living on the Land: Change Among the Inuit of Baffin Island
- Author
- Matthiasson, John S.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 092114993X
- ISBN 13
- 9780921149934
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 550 grams
- Seller catalogs
- Canadian
As recently as three decades ago most Inuit lived a lifestyle much like that of their forbearers: "living on the land," with the men hunting according to time-honoured methods and the women performing the same round of daily tasks that their grandmothers and great grandmothers had done.
Today these people typically live in settlements, some of them distinctly urban in character. Adults work for wages and use electric appliances, children listen to stereos and run about the settlement on motorbikes. As anthropologist John Matthiasson observes, "the Inuit child of today may look back in fond nostalgia on the lifestyle of his parents when they lived on the land, but he cannot return to it." Matthiasson, who has remained in contact with the Tununermiut since the 1960s, offers both a vivid picture of Inuit society as it was and an illuminating look at the nature and the extent of the enormous changes of the past thirty years.
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About the Author
The late John S. Matthaisson was a professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Manitoba, specializing in the ethnography of far-north cultures.
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