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Sanaaq : an Inuit novel /
Sanaaq is an intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in the mid-nineteenth century. Composed in 48 episodes, it recounts the daily life of Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, her daughter Qumaq,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Inuktitut |
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Winnipeg :
University of Manitoba Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Contemporary studies on the North ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Gathering dwarf birch
- Irsutualuk and the fishing day that wasn't
- A day in the tent
- Fishing on the foreshore
- Moving day and Sanaaq's remarriage
- A Qajaq for Qalingu
- Jiimialuk loses and eye
- The first Qallunaat arrive
- Qalingu tries out the Qajaq
- A daughter is adopted
- An unsuccessful hunt in the Qajaq
- Sanaaq meets a polar bear
- Arnatuinnaq catches her first gull
- From tent to igloo
- Jiimialuk's fatal accident
- A harsh winter in the igloo
- Sanaaq gives birth to a son
- Trip inland
- Hunters caught in a blizzard
- Spring hunting on the Sinaa
- Mussel fishing under the ice
- Spring hunt
- Scenes of summer life
- The legend of Lumaajuq
- The first Catholic missionaries
- A children's quarrel
- A community feast of boiled meat
- Spring hunting, fishing, and gathering
- Hunters adrift on the ice
- Inuit chewing gum
- Learning how to sew and the collapse of the igloo
- Fishing for Iqaluk
- Qalingu makes a Puurtaq and Qumag her first boots
- Gathering eggs
- Spring hunt on the edge of the ice
- A child's carelessness
- A household quarrel
- Sanaaq's flight
- Conjugal violence
- A sorrowful Qalingu
- Sanaaq's return to hospital
- Ritual feast for the first kill
- Qalingu leaves to work among the Qallunaat
- A successful day fishing for Arctic Char
- The first medical examination
- Birth, naming, and conversion
- A broken heart and possession
- Confession and cure.