| Description |
1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Contemporary studies on the north, 1928-1722 ; 6 |
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Contemporary studies on the North ; 6.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Iqallijuq, Ujarak, Kupaaq, and Others; Interlude 1: Song of Saittuq; Chapter 1: Savviurtalik Is Reincarnated; Interlude 2: Iqallijuq Remembering; Chapter 2: Inuit Genesis and the Desire for Children; Chapter 3: Naarjuk: The Giant Baby with Prominent Genitals and the Master of Sila; Chapter 4: Incestuous Moon Brother Chases Sun Sister; Chapter 5: A Headstrong Daughter: The Mother of All Human Races and All Marine Mammals; Chapter 6: A Cheated Husband and Thwarted Love in the Animal World; Chapter 7: Girls Should Not Play at Marriage; Chapter 8: A Battered Wife Chooses to Be Reborn in Animal Forms, Then as a Man; Chapter 9: Kaujjajjuk, a Mistreated Orphan Rescued by the Moon Man; Chapter 10: The Danger of Being Impregnated by a Spirit When You Have a Jealous Husband; Chapter 11: Itirjuaq, the First Woman Healer; Chapter 12: The Strange Man and His Whale; Chapter 13: Atanaarjuat, the Fast Runner: A Mythical Hero; Chapter 14: Ataguttaaluk, the Cannibal Forebear (or The Birth of a Myth); Chapter 15: Qisaruatsiaq: Back to Her Mother's Womb |
| Summary |
Ujarak, Iqallijuq, and Kupaaq were elders from the Inuit community on Igloolik Island in Nunavut. The three elders, among others, shared with Bernard Saladin d'Anglure the narratives which make up the heart of Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth. Through their words, and historical sources recorded by Franz Boas and Knud Rasmussen, Saladin d'Anglure examines the Inuit notion of personhood and its relationship to cosmology and mythology. Central to these stories are womb memories, narratives of birth and reincarnation, and the concept of the third sex--an intermediate identity between male and female. As explained through first-person accounts and traditional legends, myths, and folk tales, the presence of transgender individuals informs Inuit relationships to one another and to the world at large, transcending the dualities of male and female, human and animal, human and spirit. This new English edition includes the 2006 preface by Claude Lévi-Strauss and an afterword by Bernard Saladin d'Anglure |
| Notes |
Translation of: Etre et renaître inuit, homme, femme ou chamane |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-348) |
| Notes |
In English; translated from French |
| Subject |
Inuit -- Religion
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Inuit -- Rites and ceremonies
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Shamanism -- Nunavut
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ART -- Sculpture & Installation.
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Inuit -- Religion
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Shamanism
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Nunavut
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Frost, Peter., translator
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Lévi-Strauss, Claude, author
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| ISBN |
9780887555596 |
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0887555594 |
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9780887555572 |
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0887555578 |
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