Title: Inuit, whalers, and cultural persistence :
Authors: Stevenson, Marc.; Stevenson, Marc.
Date: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Physical description: xxii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: E
Contents: Eskimo Type Kinship and Social Organization -- Cumberland Sound Before Qallunaat -- Cumberland Sound Inuit-Qallunaat Interaction to 1970 -- Culture Change and Continuity, 1840-1970 -- Cumberland Sound Inuit Kin and Local Groups, 1920-1970 -- The Structure of Cumberland Sound Inuit Social Organization -- Cumberland Sound Inuit Prehistory Revisited -- Iglulingmiut and Netsilingmiut Social Organization -- The Copper Inuit: Antithesis of Central Inuit Social Structure? -- Canadian Arctic Prehistory Reconsidered -- Central Inuit Social Structure and Kinship Theory -- The Politics of Survival: Central Inuit Social Structure and Nunavut -- Glossary of Common Inuktitut Terms Used in Text -- Glossary of Common Anthropological Terms Used in Text.
Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--1993) under the title: Central Inuit social structure.
Subject headings (LCSH): Baffin Island (Nunavut)--Social conditions.; Cumberland Sound (Nunavut)--Social conditions.; Inuit--Cultural assimilation--Nunavut--Cumberland Sound.; Inuit--Northwest Territories--Cumberland Sound--Foreign influences.; Inuit--Northwest Territories--Cumberland Sound--Social life and customs.; Inuit--Nunavut--Baffin Island--Cultural assimilation.; Inuit--Nunavut--Baffin Island--Social life and customs.; Inuit--Nunavut--Cumberland Sound--Social life and customs.; Social structure--Northwest Territories--Cumberland Sound.; Social structure--Nunavut--Baffin Island.; Social structure--Nunavut--Cumberland Sound.