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Words of the Inuit

A Semantic Stroll through a Northern Culture

By (author) Louis-Jacques Dorais
Preface by Lisa Koperqualuk
Categories: Ethnic studies, Social groups and identities, Society and culture: general, Society and Social Sciences, United States of America, USA, North America (USA and Canada), The Americas, Place qualifiers, Relating to Native American people, Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures, tribes and other groupings of people, Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests, Interest qualifiers, Social and cultural anthropology, Anthropology, Sociology and anthropology
Series: Contemporary Studies on the North
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780887558634, September 2020
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Table of contents

Introduction: Words from the Past, A Stroll Through Inuit Semantics

Ch. 1 Words for Speaking About the Environment and Land

Ch. 2 Words for Speaking About Animals and Subsistence Activities

Ch. 3 Words for Speaking About Humans and Animals

Ch. 4 Words for Speaking About Family, Kinship, and Naming

Ch. 5 Words for Speaking About the Human Body

Ch. 6 Words for Socializing in the Contemporary World

Conclusion: Words for the Future

Description

Words of the Inuit is an important compendium of Inuit culture illustrated through Inuit words. It brings the sum of the author’s decades of experience and engagement with Inuit and Inuktitut to bear on what he fashions as an amiable, leisurely stroll through words and meanings.