Living on the Land - Change Among the Inuit of Baffin Island

Matthiasson 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.

List of contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Becoming Like an Inuit

A Whaling We Will Go

Pre-Contact Period

The Whaling Period

Becoming Canadians

A Trading Post Becomes a Settlement

The Coming of the Bay

A Killing Brings the Police and a Detachment

The Coming of the Church

in the Contact-Traditional Period

Aullativik in Summer and Winter

Contact-Traditional Economics

Sexual Roles and the Divisions of Labour

Hunting Patterns and Territoriality

Leadership

Contact with the Settlement

The Coming of the Bureaucrats

The Euro-Canadian Community and its Divisions

The Mittimatalikmiut

Relations Between Tununermiut and Euro-Canadians

A Changing Political Paradigm, and the Impact of New Statuses

The Emergence of a New Generation of Leaders

The Settlement Ten Years Later

A Home in the Settlement

The Political Scene

Epilogue

Changes in Identity and Politics

The Emergence of a New Political paradigm

A Larger Matrix - Inuit among Other Aboriginals

The Present

Works Cited

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.

Summary

Matthiasson 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.

Product details

• Authors: John S Matthiasson, John S. Matthiasson, Steve Matthiasson
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781442601284
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-0128-4
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 227 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 243 g
• Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom; Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnogra; Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom; Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnogra
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories