Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction: On Modernity, Identity, and Quaqtaq -- 1 Qallunaaqalaurtinagu: When There Were No Qallunaat -- 2 The Formation of a Community -- 3 Quaqtaq in the 1990s -- 4 Some Fundamentals of Identity -- 5 Quaqtaq and the World -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX A: HISTORICAL EVENTS IN TUVAALUK AND QUAQTAQ, 1910-1990 -- APPENDIX B: ADULT DEATHS IN TUVAALUK AND QUAQTAQ, 1941-1992 -- APPENDIX C: PETERHEAD BOATS IN TUVAALUK, 1930-1967 -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
Summary
Dorais examines how the Inuit community of Quaqtaq, a small village on Hudson Strait, has managed to preserve its identity in the modern world. He points to three things: kinship, religion, and language
