Names and Nunavut : : Culture and Identity in the Inuit Homeland / / Valerie Alia.
On the surface, naming is simply a way to classify people and their environments. The premise of this study is that it is much more — a form of social control, a political activity, a key to identity maintenance and transformation. Governments legislate and regulate naming; people fight to take, kee...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2006] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Spelling, Translation and Transliteration
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction. Towards a Theory of Political Onomastics
- Chapter 1 The Importance of Names in Inuit Culture
- Chapter 2 Visiting, Colonial Style: From Early Days of Cultural Intervention to the Cold War
- Chapter 3 Renamed Overnight: the History of Project Surname
- Chapter 4 ‘The people who love you’: Contemporary Perspectives on Naming in Nunavut
- Chapter 5 Homelands and Diasporas: Concluding Thoughts on the Politics of Naming
- Chronology of Key Events and Developments in Nunavut and the Circumpolar North
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index