The Inuit World is a robust and holistic reference source to contemporary Inuit life from the intimate world of the household to the global stage. Organized around the themes of physical worlds, moral, spiritual and intellectual worlds, intimate and everyday worlds, and social and political worlds, this book includes ethnographically rich contributions from a range of scholars, including Inuit and other Indigenous authors. The book considers regional, social, and cultural differences as well as the shared histories and common cultural practices that allow us to recognize Inuit as a single, distinct Indigenous people. The chapters demonstrate both the historical continuity of Inuit culture and the dynamic ways that Inuit people have responded to changing social, environmental, political, and economic conditions. Chapter topics include ancestral landscapes, tourism and archaeology, resource extraction and climate change, environmental activism, and women’s leadership.
This book is an invaluable resource for students and researchers in anthropology, Indigenous studies, and Arctic studies and those in related fields including geography, history, sociology, political science, and education.
Inuit Worlds: An Introduction – Pamela Stern
Part 1: Placing Inuit Worlds
1. Ancestral Landscapes: Archaeology and Long Term Inuit History
Max Friesen
2. Enduring Social Communities of the Inuvialuit: From the Yukon North Slope to the Circumpolar Stage
Natasha Lyons, Lisa Hodgetts, Mervin Joe, Ashley Piskor, Renie Arey, David Stewart, Jason Lau, Rebecca Goodwin, Walter Bennett, Cassidy Lennie-Ipana, Mataya Gillis, Hayven Elanik, Angelina Joe, and Starr Elanik
3. Tourism and Archaeology in Nunatsiavut
Lisa Rankin, Laura Kelvin, Marjorie Flowers, and Charlotte Wolfrey
4. Nipivut and the Restorying of Inuit Life in Montreal
Mark K. Watson, Stephen Puskas, Christopher Fletcher, Donna Patrick, and Sara Breitkreutz
5. Urban Inuit in Canada: A Case Study of Ottawa
Donna Patrick, Marika Morris and Qauyisaq Etitiq
6. Building Booms and Shipping Container Housing: Geographies of Urbanization and Homelessness in Nuuk, Greenland
Julia Christensen and Steven Arnfjord
Part 2: Moral, Spiritual, and Intellectual Worlds
7. Resource Exploration and Extraordinary Happenings in Greenland’s Coastal Northwest
Mark Nuttall
8. Changing Times for People and Polar Bears
Nina H.S. Lund
9. Speaking the Inuit language in the 2020s
Louis-Jacques Dorais
10. Inuit Bilingual Education
Shelley Tulloch
11. Literacy and Christianity in Greenland
Flemming A. J. Nielsen
12. Social intersections of Inuit and biomedical models of health
Christopher Fletcher
Part 3: Intimate and Everyday Worlds
13. Real Northern Men: Performing Masculinity and Culture in Ulukhaktok, Canada
Peter Collings
14. Keeping Busy in Savissivik: Women and Work in Northwest Greenland
Janne Flora, Kirsten Hastrup, and Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen
15. "I Don´t Even Sew for Myself Anymore": The Role of Sewing in a Northern Inuit Economy
Tristan D. Pearce and Kristin Emanuelsen
16. "We are Starving for Our Food": Country Food (In)Security in Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Cahley Tod-Tims and Pamela Stern
17. Social Relations among Inuit: Tuqluraqtuq and Ilagiit
Christopher G. Trott
Part 4: Social and Political Worlds
18. Indigenous Westphalian Sovereignty? Decolonization, Secession and Indigenous Rights in Greenland
Rauna Kuokkanen
19. Inuit Nunangat: The Development of a Common Inuit Territorial and Policy Space in Canada
Nadine Fabbi and Gary Wilson
20. Energy Extraction, Resistance, and Political Change in Inuit Nunangat
Warren Bernauer and Jonathan Peyton
21. Aksunai (Be Strong): Inuit Women's Leadership in Labrador
Andrea Procter, Peggy Andersen, Beverly Hunter, and Tracy Ann Evans-Rice
22. Challenges for Greenland’s Social Policies: How We Meet the Call for Social and Political Awareness
Steven Arnfjord
23. Re-claiming Inuit Governance and Revitalizing Autonomy in NunatuKavut
Amy Hudson
24. The Predicament of Sustainability: Solutions in Greenland
Frank Sejersen
Afterword – Peter Schweitzer
Biography
Pamela Stern is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
