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.
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