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HummocksJourneys and Inquiries Among the Canadian Inuit |
The journeys of French anthropologist Jean Malaurie among the Canadian Inuit.
"At the margins of the floes, where their ragged edges have come into grinding contact, the ice is piled up into ridges. These are the hummocks," writes Jean Malaurie.
More than simple knolls, the jutting ice that emerges over time is, for Jean Malaurie, a metaphor for the process of memory and recollection and Hummocks, the first English translation of the renowned anthropologist's memoir of his expeditions to the Canadian Arctic, is a detailed evocation of Malaurie's travels among the Inuit.
Malaurie's exploration of the North spanned a half-century, with voyages to Greenland, the Arctic, Alaska, and Siberia. Hummocks focuses on his expeditions to Back River, Gjoa Haven, Rankin Inlet, and Kujjuaq in northern Quebec during the early 1950s and 1960s, a time when the North was still relatively isolated and the Inuit way of life was at a crucial crossroads. While recounting the many challenges and faced by the young anthropologist, Hummocks explores ideas of Inuit and "hyperborean" civilization, the quest for Inuit independence and self-government, and the "Inuitization" of Christian belief.
Haunted by the North and its people, Hummocks is also a dialogue with the great explorers of the North - Amundsen, the Franklin expedition, Ross, and particularly Rasmussen.
More than simple knolls, the jutting ice that emerges over time is, for Jean Malaurie, a metaphor for the process of memory and recollection and Hummocks, the first English translation of the renowned anthropologist's memoir of his expeditions to the Canadian Arctic, is a detailed evocation of Malaurie's travels among the Inuit.
Malaurie's exploration of the North spanned a half-century, with voyages to Greenland, the Arctic, Alaska, and Siberia. Hummocks focuses on his expeditions to Back River, Gjoa Haven, Rankin Inlet, and Kujjuaq in northern Quebec during the early 1950s and 1960s, a time when the North was still relatively isolated and the Inuit way of life was at a crucial crossroads. While recounting the many challenges and faced by the young anthropologist, Hummocks explores ideas of Inuit and "hyperborean" civilization, the quest for Inuit independence and self-government, and the "Inuitization" of Christian belief.
Haunted by the North and its people, Hummocks is also a dialogue with the great explorers of the North - Amundsen, the Franklin expedition, Ross, and particularly Rasmussen.
Details
424 Pages, 6 x 9
125 b&w illustrations
ISBN 9780773532007
May 2007
Formats: Cloth
"An explorer ahead of his time, who invented a discipline - anthropogeography. One of the great adventurers, a man in line with naturalists such as Goethe or Alexander von Humboldt." Figaro
"The last of the great explorers - Jean Malaurie is at the forefront of Arctic research and an indefatigable advocate of Inuit autonomy." Le Monde diplomatique
"This geographer-explorer who fell in love with the Inuit tirelessly recounts the story of their fight for survival." Le Devoir
"As the present catches up with the dream of self-government the Inuit have held for decades, books such as these that portray a meticulous account of the history that has brought us to this point, do well to remind us to learn from what has gone before and proceed to the future with optimism and an open mind" Doris Ohlmann, above&beyond
"The last of the great explorers - Jean Malaurie is at the forefront of Arctic research and an indefatigable advocate of Inuit autonomy." Le Monde diplomatique
"This geographer-explorer who fell in love with the Inuit tirelessly recounts the story of their fight for survival." Le Devoir
"As the present catches up with the dream of self-government the Inuit have held for decades, books such as these that portray a meticulous account of the history that has brought us to this point, do well to remind us to learn from what has gone before and proceed to the future with optimism and an open mind" Doris Ohlmann, above&beyond
Jean Malaurie is an anthropogeographer, a world-renowned expert on the Inuit, and the founder and director of the Editions Plon's Terre Humaine series, whose authors include Claude Levi-Strauss and Margaret Mead. He is the author of numerous books, including the acclaimed The Last Kings of Thule: With the Polar Eskimos, As They Face Their Destiny. A recipient of the Académie française Award and the l'Académie des sciences Award, he is the director of the Centre d'études arctiques in Paris and research director emeritus at Centre national de la recherche scientifique. He lives in Paris.
Hummocks
Jean Malaurie translated by Peter Feldstein
Table of Contents
Preface
Nunavut and Nunavik: Guardians of the Canadian Confederation ix
Author’s Acknowledgments xxvii
Photo Section xxviii
1 In Foxe Basin 3
2 Toward Inuit Self-Government in Canada 24
3 The Netsilingmiut 61
4 On Hudson Bay, 1962 143
5 The Spartans of Back River 184
Appendix One
From Tactic to Expiation 313
Appendix Two
Diary of a Hunter Turned Miner 320
Appendix Three
Glenn Gould’s Fascination with the Arctic 328
Appendix Four
The Spirituality of the Arctic Night 330
Appendix Five
Excerpts from Notebooks of Monique Malaurie 335
Appendix Six
How a Liberal Economy Suffocates and Kills a First People 337
Notes 339
Bibliography 371
Index 379
Jean Malaurie translated by Peter Feldstein
Table of Contents
Preface
Nunavut and Nunavik: Guardians of the Canadian Confederation ix
Author’s Acknowledgments xxvii
Photo Section xxviii
1 In Foxe Basin 3
2 Toward Inuit Self-Government in Canada 24
3 The Netsilingmiut 61
4 On Hudson Bay, 1962 143
5 The Spartans of Back River 184
Appendix One
From Tactic to Expiation 313
Appendix Two
Diary of a Hunter Turned Miner 320
Appendix Three
Glenn Gould’s Fascination with the Arctic 328
Appendix Four
The Spirituality of the Arctic Night 330
Appendix Five
Excerpts from Notebooks of Monique Malaurie 335
Appendix Six
How a Liberal Economy Suffocates and Kills a First People 337
Notes 339
Bibliography 371
Index 379
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