Paperback
978-1-896445-33-5Size: 6¾" x 9¾"
Pages: 320
Pages: 320
Knowing Places
The Inuinnait, Landscapes, and the Environment
Circumpolar Research Series
By Béatrice Collignon
This volume deals with the Inuit geographic knowledge, and explores the importance of the land in the construction of identity. Inuinnait geographic knowledge is organized around three central concepts: relativity, connectivity, and subjectivity, that also organize the social structure, and the Inuinnaqtun language. It is a knowledge in action, and involves a mix of practical skills such as orientation and meteorology, and of oral tradition: stories and place names told and remembered. Place names describe features as seen and understood by specific people, in specific contexts and experiences related to life and travels on the land. Along with the stories of Inuit epics and family tales, they transform the wide expanses of the physical landscapes into 'memoryscapes,' inhabited by human beings, animals, and spirits of all kinds.
Book details
Publication date: January 2006Features: 21 maps, 11 figures and illustrations, bibliography, appendices, Inuinnaqtun summary
Series: Circumpolar Research Series
Keywords: Inuit;Traditional Knowledge;Geography
Subject(s): SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Inuit / Traditional Knowledge / Geography, Inuit;Traditional Knowledge;Geography, Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Toponymy
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press
Book details
Publication date: January 2006Features: 21 maps, 11 figures and illustrations, bibliography, appendices, Inuinnaqtun summary
Series: Circumpolar Research Series
Keywords: Inuit;Traditional Knowledge;Geography
Subject(s): SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Inuit / Traditional Knowledge / Geography, Inuit;Traditional Knowledge;Geography, Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Toponymy
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press
Béatrice Collignon. Béatrice Collignon is a French geographer with great understanding of the Inuit. She is currently a professor at the Universite Bordeaux III.
Linna Webber Muller-Wille.
Béatrice Collignon. Béatrice Collignon is a French geographer with great understanding of the Inuit. She is currently a professor at the Universite Bordeaux III.
Linna Webber Muller-Wille.