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Author:

Laugrand, Frédéric.

Title:

Inuit shamanism and Christianity : transitions and transformations in the twentieth century / Frédéric B. Laugrand and Jarich G. Oosten.

Publisher:

McGill-Queen's University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xx, 467 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Inuit--Religion.
Inuit--Social life and customs.
Inuit mythology.
Inuit--Missions.
Shamanism--Canada, Northern--History--20th century.
Christianity--Canada, Northern--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Oosten, J. G., 1945-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-457) and index.

Contents:

Pt. 1. Angakkuuniq and Christianity. Continuity and decline -- Missionaries 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.

Series:

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 59.

Indexed by:

Book review by Nelson Graburn, in Inuit art quarterly, 0831-6708, Vol. 25, no. 3 (fall 2010), p. 29-31.

ISBN:

077353590X (pbk.)
9780773535909 (pbk.)
0773535896 (bound)
9780773535893 (bound)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)427676516

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)