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Interviewing Inuit Elders, Volume 4: Cosmology and Shamanism
Mariano Aupilaarjuk, Lucassie Nutaraaluk, Rose Iqallijuq, Johanasi Ujarak, Isidore Ijituuq, and Michel Kupaaq; ed. Bernard Saladin d'Anglure · 2001 · English and Inuktitut
Scholarship
Interviewing Inuit Elders, Volume 4: Cosmology and Shamanism
Mariano Aupilaarjuk, Lucassie Nutaraaluk, Rose Iqallijuq, Johanasi Ujarak, Isidore Ijituuq, and Michel Kupaaq; ed. Bernard Saladin d'Anglure
Part of a Nunavut Arctic College series in which Inuit students interviewed elders in 1998 about their own knowledge. This volume covers the Sea Woman (including the Iglulik name Uinigumasuittuq), the moon, Sila, and the work of angakkuit, in the elders' own words. A key Inuit-led source.
About this work
Part of a Nunavut Arctic College series in which Inuit students interviewed elders in 1998 about their own knowledge. This volume covers the Sea Woman (including the Iglulik name Uinigumasuittuq), the moon, Sila, and the work of angakkuit, in the elders' own words. A key Inuit-led source.
Where to start
A good first book: elders speak in their own words, with Inuktitut terms explained.
Figures in the text
Heroes and divinities who feature prominently, with where they appear.
Key scenes
Turning points of the work, in reading order.
The One Who Did Not Want a Husband
Elders tell the story of the young woman who refused to marry and became the Sea Woman.
Stories drawn from it
Retellings in the atlas that quote or cite this work.
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By Elizabeth Stein for Mythos Atlas. About the author. Editorial notes are grounded in the site's cited sources and can be challenged through the contact page.
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