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Author Fossett, Renée

Title In order to live untroubled : Inuit of the central Arctic, 1550-1940 / Renée Fossett
Published Winnipeg, Man. : University of Manitoba Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 336 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Contents Empty dishes and days of feasting : human habitation of arctic North America to 1550 -- Strangers are necessarily hostile : war and the protection of resources, 1550-1670 -- Fear when winter comes : migration and the search for resources, 1670-1700 -- The degree of cold : subsistence and survival, 1790-1830 -- Memories of hunger : windfalls, surplus, and scarcity, 1830-1860 -- Skin for soles, moss for wicks : the search for predictability, 1860-1940 -- The experience of dead generations : social organization, worldview, and survival
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Inuit -- Nunavut -- History
Inuit -- Nunavut -- Social conditions
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Inuit
Inuit -- Social conditions
Eskimo's.
Inuits -- Nunavut (Canada) -- Histoire.
Inuits -- Nunavut (Canada) -- Conditions sociales.
Nunavut
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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