TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laugrand,Frédéric
AU  - Oosten,J.G.
TI  - Inuit shamanism and Christianity: transitions and transformations in the twentieth century 
T2  - McGill-Queen's native and northern series
SN  - 9780773576360
AV  - E99.E7 L3895 2010eb
U1  - 299.7/812 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Montreal [Que.]
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Inuit
KW  - Religion
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Inuit mythology
KW  - Missions
KW  - Shamanism
KW  - Canada, Northern
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Church history
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Ethnic & Tribal
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Inuits
KW  - Moeurs et coutumes
KW  - Mythologie inuite
KW  - Chamanisme
KW  - Canada (Nord)
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - Eskimo
KW  - gnd
KW  - Schamanismus
KW  - Mythologie
KW  - Christentum
KW  - Sitte
KW  - idszbz
KW  - Mission
KW  - Nunavut
KW  - Nordwestterritorien
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-457) and index; pt. 1. Angakkuuniq and Christianity. Continuity and decline -- Missionaries and Angakkuit -- Inuit winter feasts
N2  - While the transition to Christianity in the Canadian Arctic occurred between the end of the eighteenth century and the 1950s, the various and complex transformations that happened during this time have not been fully understood. Using both archival material and oral testimony collected during workshops in Nunavut between 1996 and 2008, FrÉdÉric Laugrand and Jarich Oosten provide a nuanced look at Inuit religion, offering a strong counter narrative to the idea that traditional Inuit culture declined post-contact. They show that setting up a dichotomy between a past identified with traditional culture and a present involving Christianity obscures the continuity and dynamics of Inuit society, which has long borrowed and adapted "outside" elements. They argue that both Shamanism and Christianity are continually changing in the Arctic and ideas of transformation and transition are necessary to understand both how the hunting ideology shaped Inuit Christian cosmology and how Christianity changed Inuit shamanic traditions. Inuit Shamanism and Christianityis particularly useful in distinguishing between the influence of Anglican, Catholic, and, more recently, Pentecostal and Evangelical movements and in delineating the ways in which Shamanism still influences modern life in Inuit communities
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