Quaqtaq : modernity and identity in an Inuit community

Quaqtaq : modernity and identity in an Inuit community /

Comprises an ethnographic study of the small, predominantly Inuit village of Quaqtaq in Nunavik in arctic Quebec. The author focuses on the interaction between modernity and tradition in residents' relations with the outside world and, more specifically, in cultural identity. Includes a few b &...

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Main Author: Dorais, Louis-Jacques, 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1997.
Subjects:
Inuit > Cultural assimilation > Québec (Province) > Quaqtaq.
Inuit > Québec (Province) > Quaqtaq > Ethnic identity.
Inuit > Québec (Province) > Quaqtaq > Social conditions.
Inuits > Acculturation > Québec (Province) > Quaqtaq.
Inuits > Identité ethnique > Québec (Province) > Quaqtaq.
Inuits > Québec (Province) > Quaqtaq > Conditions sociales.
Inuits > Québec (Province) > Quaqtaq > Mœurs et coutumes.
Inuit > Cultural assimilation.
Inuit > Ethnic identity.
Inuit > Social conditions.
Social conditions
Alltag
Ethnische Identität.
Inuits > Acculturation > Canada > Québec (Canada ; province).
Inuits > Canada > Québec (Canada ; province) > Identité collective.
Inuits > Canada > Québec (Canada ; province) > Conditions sociales.
Alltag.
Ethnische Identität.
Quaqtaq (Québec) > Social conditions.
Québec > Quaqtaq.
Quaqtaq
Quaqtaq.
Electronic books.
Quaqtamint.
Table of Contents:
  • On modernity, identity and Quaqtaq
  • Qallunaaqalaurtinagu: When there were no Qallkunaat
  • Formation of a community
  • Quaqtaq in the 1990s
  • Some fundamentals of identity
  • Quaqtaq and the world
  • Appendix Q: 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
  • References
  • Index.

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