Quaqtaq : : Modernity and Identity in an Inuit Community / / Louis-Jacques Dorais.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Dorais, Louis-Jacques,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: On Modernity, Identity, and Quaqtaq --; 1. Qallunaaqalaurtinagu: When There Were No Qallunaat --; 2. The Formation of a Community --; 3. Quaqtaq in the 1990s --; 4. Some Fundamentals of Identity --; 5. Quaqtaq and the World --; Conclusion --; Appendix A: 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 --; Notes --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442678934; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442678934
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Louis-Jacques Dorais.

How, in a world that is drastically changing, can the Inuit preserve their identity? Louis-Jacques Dorais explores this question in Quaqtaq, the first ethnography of a contemporary Canadian Inuit community to be published in over twenty-five years. The community of Quaqtaq is a small village on Hudson Strait where hunting and gathering are still the mainstays of life. In this description of Quaqtaq, based on data collected over a thirty-year period, we get a glimpse of its early cultural history, its development into a settled community, and its present realities. Dorais identifies three principal manifestations of local identity - kinship, religion, and language - that persist despite the brutal intrusion of modernity. He concludes by examining the role politics and education have played in the relationship between Quaqtaq and the outside world.Quaqtaq is a unique and important study that will be of interest to scholars, administrators, and citizens of Inuit and other native communities.