National Park Service, Department of the Interior, 1998. — 328 p. Created by the National Park Service, this book that explores traditional Eskimo life in the late 20th century. It celebrates the people of the Kobuk River area in northern Alaska as observed in 1974 and 1975. Learn more about their experiences in fishing, trapping, hunting, and the harvest, and how they were able...
National Park Service, Department of the Interior, 1998. — 328 p. Created by the National Park Service, this book that explores traditional Eskimo life in the late 20th century. It celebrates the people of the Kobuk River area in northern Alaska as observed in 1974 and 1975. Learn more about their experiences in fishing, trapping, hunting, and the harvest, and how they were able...
University of Manitoba Press, 2015. — 304 p. Life Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman’s experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James Bay and her journey in the 1950s from her home to the strange land and stranger customs of the Qallunaat, those living south of the Arctic. Her extraordinary story, sometimes humorous and sometimes heartbreaking,...
University of Manitoba Press, 2015. — 304 p. Life Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman’s experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James Bay and her journey in the 1950s from her home to the strange land and stranger customs of the Qallunaat, those living south of the Arctic. Her extraordinary story, sometimes humorous and sometimes heartbreaking,...
The Natural History Press, 1970. — 264 p. Today regarded as a classic, this description of life in polar cultures reflects traditional ethnography at its best and has been a favored account for thirty years. Balikcis important study of the Netsilingmiut, an isolated tribe of Arctic hunters living close to the Arctic Circle, examines their technology, social organization, and...
Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. — 496 p. Inuit Women is the definitive study of the Inuit during a time of rapid change. Based on fourteen years of research and fieldwork, this analysis focuses on the challenges facing Inuit women as they enter the twenty-first century. Written shortly after the creation of Nunavut, a new province carved out of traditional Inuit homelands in the...
Edited by Ludger Müller-Wille — University of Toronto Press, 1998. — 330 p. In the summer of 1883, Franz Boas, widely regarded as one of the fathers of Inuit anthropology, sailed from Germany to Baffin Island to spend a year among the Inuit of Cumberland Sound. This was his introduction to the Arctic and to anthropological fieldwork. This book presents, for the first time, his...
Edited by Ann Fienup-Riordan. — University of Alaska Press, 2004. — 152 p. Anatole Bogeyaktuk and Charlie Steve were members of the last generation of Yup'ik men to be raised in the qasgi (communal men's house) and witness first-hand the dances and gift-giving that were so much a part of traditional life along the Bering Sea coast. These two Stebbins elders describe the complex...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014. — 424 p. What does it mean to become a man in the Arctic today? Becoming Inummarik focuses on the lives of the first generation of men born and raised primarily in permanent settlements. Forced to balance the difficulties of schooling, jobs, and money that are a part of village life with the conflicting demands of older generations and...
University of Toronto Press, 1996. — 216 p. In Canada's far north, on the western coast of Victoria Island, the Copper Inuit people of Holman (the Ulukhaktokmiut) have experienced a rate of social and economic change rarely matched in human history. Owing to their isolated, inaccessible location, three hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle, they were one of the last Inuit...
University of Toronto Press, 2000. — 336 p. In the early eighteenth century, West Greenland became a colonial territory of Denmark. Nevertheless, a large number of Inuit communities maintained significant aspects of their cultural and economic practices. When home rule was introduced in 1979, the benign paternalism of colonial days was superseded by the incorporation of ethnic and...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. — 336 p. In recent years the view has emerged that the Inuit were coerced by the Canadian government into abandoning life in scattered camps for centres of habitation. In "Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers" David Damas demonstrates that for many years government policies helped maintain dispersed settlement, but that eventually concerns over...
Preface by Lisa Koperqualuk. — University of Manitoba Press, 2020. — 344 p. — (Contemporary Studies on the North). Words of the Inuit is an important compendium of Inuit culture illustrated through Inuit words. It brings the sum of the author's decades of experience and engagement with Inuit and Inuktitut to bear on what he fashions as an amiable, leisurely stroll through words...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. — 120 p. Pitseolak: Pictures Out of My Life is an illustrated oral biography created from recorded interviews by Dorothy Harley Eber in 1970. In these interviews, and through her drawings and prints, Pitseolak makes what Inuit call "the old way" come alive, reflecting on life on the land, its pleasure and trials. Her story later became an NFB...
Nunavut Arctic College, 2000. — 139 p. — ISBN: 1-896-204-376. Each society lives on through its children. Children have to responsible adults, who can take care of themselves as well as their relatives. In this book, Inuit childrearing practices are described by two elders - Naqi Ekho and Uqsuralik Ottokie from the South Baffin Island region.Childrearing practices are rapidly...
University of Washington Press, 1996. — 272 p. Drawing on the remembrances of elders who were born in the early 1900s and saw the last masked Yup’ik dances before missionary efforts forced their decline, Agayuliyararput is a collection of first-person accounts of the rich culture surrounding Yup’ik masks. Stories by thirty-three elders from all over southwestern Alaska,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. — 416 p. This book brings together as complete a record of traditional Yup’ik rules and rituals as is possible in the late twentieth century. Incorporating elders’ recollections of the system of ruled boundaries and ritual passages that guided their parents and grandparents a century ago, Ann Fienup-Riordan brings into focus the complex,...
Translated by Alice Rearden, Marie Meade, David Chanar, Rebecca Nayamin, Corey Joseph — University of Alaska Press, 2020. — 400 p. Lifeways in Southwest Alaska today remains inextricably bound to the seasonal cycles of sea and land. Community members continue to hunt, fish, and make products from the life found in the rivers and sea. Based on a wealth of oral histories...
Baraka Books, 2011. — 286 p. Wilhelm Weike, a 23-year old handyman from Minden/Germany, accidentally found himself spending the year of 1883-84 among Inuit and wintering with whalers on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. The fledgling scientist Franz Boas (1858-1942), later the eminent cultural anthropologist, hired Weike to attend to and assist him in his geographical and...
Foreword by William W. Fitzhugh. — Greystone Books, 2016. — 328 p. Arctic researcher, author, and photographer Norman Hallendy’s journey to the far north began in 1958, when many Inuit, who traditionally lived on the land, were moving to permanent settlements created by the Canadian government. In this unique memoir, Hallendy writes of his adventures, experiences with strange...
Foreword by William W. Fitzhugh. — Greystone Books, 2016. — 328 p. Arctic researcher, author, and photographer Norman Hallendy’s journey to the far north began in 1958, when many Inuit, who traditionally lived on the land, were moving to permanent settlements created by the Canadian government. In this unique memoir, Hallendy writes of his adventures, experiences with strange...
Douglas & McIntyre, 2001. — 128 p. The mysterious stone figures known as inuksuit can be found throughout the circumpolar world. Built from whatever stones are at hand, each one is unique. Inuksuit are among the oldest and most important objects placed by humans upon the vast Arctic landscape and have become a familiar symbol of the Inuit and their homeland. In author Norman...
Museum Tusculanum Press, 2008. — 242 p. This book describes life in a small hunting community in Northwest Greenland. It is based on fieldwork carried out by the author from 1966 to 1968 and documents in detail the traditional material culture, ways of hunting and fishing, daily life, and festive occasions of an Inuit society not yet influenced by European culture. The historical...
University of Alaska Press, 2004. — 176 p. Eastern Arctic Kayaks is the product of years of kayak study by two of the world’s experts. Combining analyses of form and function with historical background and illustrations of kayaking techniques, this volume is a storehouse of information for recreational kayakers and scholarly readers alike. Drawing from his vast practical...
University of Minnesota Press, 1957. — 224 p. In 1913 a young ethnologist from New Zealand boarded a ship for the Arctic, beginning a personal journey that was to make Diamond Jenness one of the twentieth century's foremost authorities on Alaskan Eskimos. Jenness had been asked to join the Stefansson expedition, and his official duties were to collect ethnographic details on...
University of Chicago Press, 1959. — 251 p. The printing of The People of the Twilight in a paperback edition brings back into circulation a book on the Eskimo that was published first in 1928. The volume is an account of life among the Copper Eskimos living in the southwestern sector of Victoria Island and on the adjacent mainland of the western Canadian Arctic. During the...
Fernwood Publishing, 2017. — 268 p. The Inuit have experienced colonization and the resulting disregard for the societal systems, beliefs and support structures foundational to Inuit culture for generations. While much research has articulated the impacts of colonization and recognized that Indigenous cultures and worldviews are central to the well-being of Indigenous peoples and...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. — 160 p. In the Arctic, well designed and superbly tailored clothing allows people to hunt and survive in the world's harshest conditions. Both sea and land animals, birds and fish, provide raw materials for the creation of unique forms of highly efficient clothing - different types of parkas, trousers, layered footwear, gloves and...
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2016. — 488 p. This collection of 15 chronologically arranged papers is the first-ever definitive treatment of the intellectual history of Eskimology - known today as Inuit studies - the field of anthropology preoccupied with the origins, history, and culture of the Inuit people. The authors trace the growth and change in scholarship on the...
University of British Columbia Press, 2007. — 336 p. Kiumajut [Talking Back]: Game Management and Inuit Rights 1900-70 examines Inuit relations with the Canadian state, with a particular focus on two interrelated issues. The first is how a deeply flawed set of scientific practices for counting animal populations led policymakers to develop policies and laws intended to curtail...
Berghahn Books, 2016. — 418 p. Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. The authors examine key figures such as the raven, an animal that has a central place in Inuit culture as a creator and a trickster, and qupirruit, a category consisting of insects and other small life forms. After these non-social and...
Plon, 1989. — 864 p. En partageant la vie rigoureuse des Esquimaux polaires, les Inuits, en mangeant avec eux l'hiver ces oiseaux d'été qui ont pourri sous les pierres, en écoutant, durant trois mois de nuit polaire, leurs légendes d'un rare pouvoir imaginaire, leurs récits dramatiques d'expéditions au pôle avec Peary, Cook, leurs fameuses expéditions avec Knud Rasmussen, Jean...
Illustrated by Robert Frankenberg. — New York: Parents' Magazine Press, 1970. — 64 p. — (A Stepping-Stone Book). — ISBN: 0-8193-0397-6. Describes the past and present way of life of the "Real People," the Eskimos of Alaska.
University of Toronto Press, 1992. — 174 p. As recently as three decades ago most Inuit lived a lifestyle much like that of their forbearers: "living on the land," with the men hunting according to time-honoured methods and the women performing the same round of daily tasks that their grandmothers and great grandmothers had done.
Waveland Press, 2007. — 200 p. Change in arctic populations has not been a sudden phenomenon, but rather a gradual process that has occurred over a number of generations. In this longitudinal case study, McElroy introduces readers to four Baffin Island communities in the eastern Canadian Arctic and focuses on the challenges and hardships they face in transition from...
Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2014. — 228 p. Mitiarjuk Attasie Nappaaluk CM (1931–2007) was a Canadian Inuk writer. She was most noted for Sanaaq, one of the first Inuktitut language novels. The first draft of Sanaaq was written in Inuktitut syllabics by Nappaaluk. Sanaaq is an intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by...
Inhabit Media, 2014. — 61 p. Traditionally, Inuit do not call each other by their given names. Instead, they refer to each other using a system of kinship and family terms, known as tuqurausiit (turk-thlo-raw-seet). Calling each other by kinship terms is a way to show respect and foster closeness within families. However, as more and more Inuit refer to each other by their English...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. — 265 p. — (McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies). A multigenerational discussion of culture, history, and naming centring on archival photographs of Inuit whose names were previously unrecorded. "Our names - Atiqput - are very meaningful. They are our identification. They are our Spirits. We are named after what's in the sky for...
Dundurn, 2016. — 288 p. The remarkable history of a pocket of the remote Arctic, and the oral testimony from the last Inuit elders to live there. A coastal region of rolling tundra just west of Hudson Bay, Ukkusikslaik was established as a national park in 2003. In earlier times this historic region was the principal hunting ground for several Inuit families and was...
Dundurn, 2016. — 288 p. The remarkable history of a pocket of the remote Arctic, and the oral testimony from the last Inuit elders to live there. A coastal region of rolling tundra just west of Hudson Bay, Ukkusikslaik was established as a national park in 2003. In earlier times this historic region was the principal hunting ground for several Inuit families and was...
Brill, 2014. — 212 p. — (Studies in Critical Research on Religion 4). The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter examines the role of Protestantism in the Danish colonization of Greenland and shows how the process of colonization entails a process of subjectification where the identity of indigenous population is transformed. The figure of the hunter, commonly regarded as...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993. — 160 p. Peter Pitseolak, the first native Baffin Island photographer, was born in the eastern Canadian Arctic in 1902. As a child he lived the nomadic camp life his ancestors had known, but during his lifetime missionaries, fur traders, law, government, schools, and alcohol came to Baffin Island. Peter Pitseolak's account of his life in...
University of Manitoba Press, 2012. — 264 p. Framed by the historic 2005 signing of the Labrador Inuit Land Claim Agreement and the creation of Nunatsiavut, the first Inuit self-government, "Settlement, Subsistence, and Change Among the Labrador Inuit" is a history of land and resource use by the Labrador Inuit. It examines in detail the way of life and cultural survival of...
University of Manitoba Press, 2012. — 264 p. Framed by the historic 2005 signing of the Labrador Inuit Land Claim Agreement and the creation of Nunatsiavut, the first Inuit self-government, "Settlement, Subsistence, and Change Among the Labrador Inuit" is a history of land and resource use by the Labrador Inuit. It examines in detail the way of life and cultural survival of...
University of Alaska Press, 2003. — 216 p.
The architecture of Eskimo peoples represents a diversified and successful means of coping with one of the most severe climates on earth. The popular image of the igloo is but one of the many structures examined by experts Lee and Reinhardt in the first book-length study of this remarkable subject. Lavishly illustrated with historic...
University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 252 p. Many Americans imagine the Arctic as harsh, freezing, and nearly uninhabitable. The living Arctic, however—the one experienced by native Inuit and others who work and travel there - is a diverse region shaped by much more than stereotype and mythology. Do You See Ice? presents a history of Arctic encounters from 1850 to 1920 based on...
University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 252 p. Many Americans imagine the Arctic as harsh, freezing, and nearly uninhabitable. The living Arctic, however—the one experienced by native Inuit and others who work and travel there - is a diverse region shaped by much more than stereotype and mythology. Do You See Ice? presents a history of Arctic encounters from 1850 to 1920 based on...
University of Arizona Press, 2020. — 304 p. — ISBN-10 0816542155, ISBN-13 978-0816542154. As a mythical creature, the whale has been responsible for many transformations in the world. It is an enchanting being that humans have long felt a connection to. In the contemporary environmental imagination, whales are charismatic megafauna feeding our environmentalism and aspirations...
Foreword by Claude Lévi-Strauss — University of Manitoba Press, 2018. — 400 p. 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...
Foreword by Claude Lévi-Strauss — University of Manitoba Press, 2018. — 400 p. 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...
Routledge, 2021. — 464 p. — (Routledge Worlds). The Inuit World is a robust and holistic reference source to contemporary Inuit life from the intimate world of the household to the global stage. Organized around the themes of physical worlds, moral, spiritual and intellectual worlds, intimate and everyday worlds, and social and political worlds, this book includes...
Greenwood Press, 2010. — 240 p. Daily Life of the Inuit is the first serious study of contemporary Inuit culture and communities from the post-World War II period to the present. Beginning with an introductory essay surveying Inuit prehistory, geography, and contemporary regional diversity, this exhaustive treatment explores the daily life of the Inuit throughout the North...
2nd Edition — Scarecrow Press, 2013. — 290 p. The Inuit do not represent a very large population, only 160,000 or so, spread over a very large portion of the Arctic region and located in four different countries. Although they are a "people", there are many variations from one group to the next, and any study of them must consider both similarities and differences. The...
Scarecrow Press, 2004. — 248 p. The approximately 150,000 Inuit are indigenous to four nations - Denmark (Greenland), Canada, the United States (Alaska), and Russia - and thus have had very different colonial experiences and participate as citizens of those nations in different ways. Far from being victims of colonialism, Inuit are actively involved in shaping their social...
University of Nebraska Press, 2006. — 302 p. Over the past decade, some of the most innovative work in anthropology and related fields has been done in the Native communities of circumpolar North America. Critical Inuit Studies offers an overview of the current state of Inuit studies by bringing together the insights and fieldwork of more than a dozen scholars from six countries...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1968. — 245 p. These essays, which extend in subject from Shamanism to Eskimo language, from the Eskimo economy to Eskimo art, continue to appeal to a wide range of readers.
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009. — 408 p. How do shape-shifting shamans, a giant cannibalistic bumblebee, and human marriage with animals speak to Canadian Inuit and Siberian indigenous peoples today? How can artists present ancient legend in live performance and film with sensitivity to the source? Why are long multi-layered stories essential for adults and children in...
Canadian Museum of Civilization, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. — 202 p. In 1970 a small group of young Inuit women in Pangnirtung on Baffin Island began to tell a story - a story about their past, their culture, their lives - a story told through woven pictures. The first book dedicated to the art form of tapestry weaving, Nuvisavik shows how weaving became a bridge...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. — 302 p. Saqiyuq is the name the Inuit give to a strong wind that suddenly shifts direction; Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women is a vivid portrait of the changing nature of life in the Arctic during the twentieth century. Through their life stories a grandmother, daughter, and granddaughter take us on a remarkable journey...
М.: Старый Сад, 1998. — 218 с. — ISBN: 5-201-13713-X В книге рассматривается один из самых важных в истории американских эскимосов период - 60-80-х гг. XX столетия, когда их общество подверглось наиболее интенсивным изменениям под влиянием реформ и попыток направленного социального развития. Автор анализирует демографические, культурные, социальные и психологические аспекты...
Пер. с фр. О. Р. Прощёнок-Кальниной; под ред. докт. филос. наук В. В. Васильковой. — СПб.: Петрополис, 2002. — 912 с. Эта книга посвящается полярным эскимосам из Туле - инуитам.
Монография. — М.: Наука, 1964. — 260 с. Введение. Из этнической истории эскимосского народа. Миграционные гипотезы происхождения эскимосов. Автохтонные гипотезы происхождения эскимосов. Юго-Западная Аляска и прародина эскимосской культуры. Локальные варианты и этапы развития эскимосской культуры. Из истории контактов эскимосов с европейцами (XI — начало XX в.). Проникновение...
Монография. — М.: Наука, 1971. — 280 с.
В книге рассматривается древняя, новая и новейшая этническая и социально-экономическая история коренного населения Крайнего Севера Америки. Главное внимание уделяется анализу изменений, происшедших в жизни эскимосов в последние века под влиянием капиталистической колонизации Аляски, Канадского Севера, Гренландии, выявляются региональные...
М.: Географгиз, 1961. — 322 с. — (Путешествия. Приключения. Фантастика). Это повесть о полярных эскимосах северо-западной Гренландии. В мировой литературе найдется немного книг, в которых бы с такой теплотой и симпатией описывалась жизнь гренландцев - небольшого, но мужественного и стойкого народа. Автор книги, известный датский писатель и путешественник Петер Фрейхен, много...
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