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Genre/Form: | Entretiens |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Alia, Valerie, 1942- Names and Nunavut. New York : Berghahn Books, 2007 (OCoLC)608277144 Online version: Alia, Valerie, 1942- Names and Nunavut. New York : Berghahn Books, 2007 (OCoLC)608286724 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Valerie Alia |
ISBN: | 1845451651 9781845451653 9781845454135 1845454138 |
OCLC Number: | 69992383 |
Description: | xix, 172 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The importance of names in Inuit culture -- Visiting, colonial style : from early days of cultural intervention to the Cold War -- Renamed overnight : the history of Project Surname -- 'The people who love you' : contemporary perspectives on naming in Nunavut -- Homelands and diasporas : concluding thoughts on the politics of naming. |
Responsibility: | Valerie Alia. |
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"...a thought-provoking book. Alia lays out the intricacies of Inuit naming so clearly, describes the Arctic environment so vividly, and conveys such a rich sense of Inuit values, concerns, and humour that readers are likely to hunger for more information and to pose ethnographic and on mastic questions that press forward the horizons of Inuit ethnography. Names and Nunavut is a welcome addition to Arctic ethnography and should be of interest not only to linguists and anthropologists working in the Arctic but to anyone interested in the relationship between onomasty, personhood, and cosmology and to anyone looking for fresh insights to the micropractices of linguistic and onomastic colonialism" * NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics "The author has achieved an important and remarkable contribution to scholarship with her book." * Namenkundliche Informationen "Embedded within this nuanced and extraordinarily well-researched account of the political onomastics (the politics of naming) involved with Inuit (colonial) history are an abundance of theoretical, ethical and political insights into both the complex nature of the Inuit and their evolving engagement with Qallunat (non-Inuit, Euro-Canadian), as well as the complex nature of engaging in such research. This publication, refreshing in its focus on extensive local community research, delves into the complicated dynamic between colonial administration and its effects on the culture and identity of the Inuits." * British Journal of Canadian Studies "[The book] is very readable and helps to overcome the euro-centric perspective concerning the significance of names in the political conflicts of the twentieth century... A person's name is closely linked to current human rights debates, and by analyzing this aspect from a global perspective Valerie Alia's book offers an important and impressive contribution." * Journal of Onomastics Read more...


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- Names, Inuit -- Nunavut.
- Names, Inuit -- Political aspects -- Nunavut.
- Inuit -- Nunavut -- Social life and customs.
- Inuit -- Nunavut -- Government relations.
- Names, Geographical -- Nunavut.
- Names, Ethnological -- Nunavut.
- Nunavut -- Social life and customs.
- Project Surname -- Histoire.
- Noms inuits -- Nunavut.
- Noms inuits -- Aspect politique -- Nunavut.
- Inuits -- Nunavut -- Mœurs et coutumes.
- Inuits -- Nunavut -- Relations avec l'État.
- Noms géographiques -- Nunavut.
- Noms ethniques -- Nunavut.
- Nunavut -- Moeurs et coutumes.
- Inuits -- Nunavut -- Entretiens.
- Inuit -- Government relations.
- Inuit -- Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Names, Ethnological.
- Names, Geographical.
- Names, Inuit.
- Nunavut.
- Namensänderung
- Namengebung
- Kulturelle Identität
- Ethnische Identität
- Nunavut
- Eskimo
- Eskimo.
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