Nunavut Generations
Subtitle: Change & Continuity in Canadian Inuit Communities
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc; Waveland Press
Published: October 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781577664895
Subjects: Nonfiction / Social Science; Anthropology - General; Social Science; Sociology
Description: "Change in arctic populations has not been a sudden phenomenon, but rather a gradual process that has occurred over a number of generations. In this longitudinal case study, McElroy introduces readers to four Baffin Island communities in the eastern Canadian Arctic and focuses on the challenges and hardships they face in transition from hunting-gathering lifestyles to wage employment and political participation in towns. Through long-term fieldwork, historical material, and life histories collected from elders, Nunavut Generations richly illustrates political and ecological change alongside native stability and self-determination."--Jacket.