ISBN:
9780773535909
,
9780773535893
Language:
English
Pages:
XX, 467 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
McGill-Queen's native and northern series 59
Series Statement:
McGill-Queen's native and northern series
DDC:
299.7/812
Keywords:
Inuit Social life and customs
;
Inuit mythology
;
Inuit Missions
;
Shamanism History 20th century
;
Christianity History 20th century
;
Inuit Religion
;
Inuit
;
Religion
;
Inuit
;
Social life and customs
;
Inuit mythology
;
Inuit
;
Missions
;
Shamanism
;
Canada, Northern
;
History
;
20th century
;
Christianity
;
Canada, Northern
;
History
;
20th century
;
Northwest Territories
;
Eskimo
;
Schamanismus
;
Mission
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
Abstract:
Annotation, While the transition to Christianity in the Canadian Arctic occurred between the end of the eighteenth century and the 1950s, the various and complex transformations that happened during this time have not been fully understood. Using both archival material and oral testimony collected during workshops in Nunavut between 1996 and 2008, FrÉdÉric Laugrand and Jarich Oosten provide a nuanced look at Inuit religion, offering a strong counter narrative to the idea that traditional Inuit culture declined post-contact. They show that setting up a dichotomy between a past identified with traditional culture and a present involving Christianity obscures the continuity and dynamics of Inuit society, which has long borrowed and adapted "outside" elements. They argue that both Shamanism and Christianity are continually changing in the Arctic and ideas of transformation and transition are necessary to understand both how the hunting ideology shaped Inuit Christian cosmology and how Christianity changed Inuit shamanic traditions. Inuit Shamanism and Christianityis particularly useful in distinguishing between the influence of Anglican, Catholic, and, more recently, Pentecostal and Evangelical movements and in delineating the ways in which Shamanism still influences modern life in Inuit communities
Description / Table of Contents:
pt. 1. Angakkuuniq and Christianity. Continuity and declineMissionaries and Angakkuit -- Inuit winter feasts -- pt. 2. Animals, owners, and non-human beings. Hunters and prey -- The owners of the sky, the land, and the sea -- Inuunngittut, non-human beings from the land and the sea -- pt. 3. Encounters, healing, and power. Initiation, visions, and dreams -- Healing as a socio-cosmic process -- Powerful objects and words -- pt. 4. Connecting to ancestors and land. Connecting to ancestors : Qilaniq and Qilauti, head lifting and drum dancing -- Reconnecting people and healing the land : Inuit Pentecostal and evangelical movements -- Transitions and transformations -- Appendix 1. Glossary of Inuktitut words -- Appendix 2. Inuit elders.
Note:
Includes bibiographical references (p. [435] - 457) and index
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