The symbolic anthropology that is increasingly ascendant in our discipline takes the study of
cultures to be preeminently an interpretive quest. Although finding much of deep value in it, I …

Using 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 …

Canada. In deze studie richt ik mij vooral op de periode, die oninidde II ijk aan de bekering
tot het Chr i stendon van deze groepen in de trrintiger en dertiger jarell van de: e ecuw …

It is generally accepted that men and women might perform as angakkut in traditional Inuit
religion. Several attempts have been made to distinguish between male an female types of …

RÉSUMÉ La logique des échanges des fêtes d'hiver inuit Cette étude compare les têtes d'hiver
des Inuit de la Terre de Baffin, montrant comment elles relèvent du même Field of …

At the end of this volume, we will formulate however tentativesome answers to the questions
posed in the introduction. We will base our discussions in the first place on the data of the …

This chapter examines the adoption of Christianity by the Inuit of the Canadian Central Arctic
from the very first contacts to the 1970s. It discusses the religious changes from a historical …

Henri Claessen has devoted much of his scholarly career to the study of Early States.
Although he has always been fond of travelogues and entertained a romantic interest in other …

Shamanism is usually studied as a religious and ideological phenomenon. Resemblances
between shamanistic complexes in different cultures are often stressed, while differences are …

Over the century between the first Oblate mission to the Canadian central Arctic in 1867 and
the radical shifts brought about by Vatican II, the region was the site of complex interactions …