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Free Download Barry Zellen, "On Thin Ice: The Inuit, the State, and the Challenge of Arctic Sovereignty"
English | 2009 | pages: 268 | ISBN: 0739132784 | PDF | 16,7 mb
On Thin Ice explores the relationship between the Inuit and the modern state in the vast but lightly populated North American Arctic. It chronicles the aspiration of the Inuit to participate in the formation and implementation of diplomatic and national security policies across the Arctic region and to contribute to the reconceptualization of Arctic Security, including the redefinition of the core values inherent in northern defense policy.

Free Download Kyra Mancini, "Inuit Women: Their Powerful Spirit in a Century of Change"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0742535967, 0742535975 | PDF | pages: 496 | 5.7 mb
Inuit Women is the definitive study of the Inuit during a time of rapid change. Based on fourteen years of research and fieldwork, this analysis focuses on the challenges facing Inuit women as they enter the twenty-first century. Written shortly after the creation of Nunavut, a new province carved out of traditional Inuit homelands in the Canadian North, this compelling book combines conclusions drawn from the authors’ ethnographic research with the stories of Inuit women and men, told in their own words.

Free Download White Lies About the Inuit (Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom) By John Steckley
2007 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 1551118750 | PDF | 2 MB
The Inuit are a familiar part of Canadian identity but also exotic residing in the remote Arctic. The mix of the familiar and the exotic has resulted in the creation and perpetuation of a number of "White Lies." These are stories that have been developed over long periods of time, reproduced in classrooms, anthropology and sociology textbooks, and other media, but have been rarely challenged, contributing to misunderstandings that have ultimately, in subtle ways, diminished the stature of Inuit traditional culture.In this lively book, designed specifically for introductory students, Steckley unpacks three "White Lies"-the myth that there are fifty-two words for snow, that there are blond, blue-eyed Inuit descended from the Vikings, and that the Inuit send off their elders to die on ice floes. Debunking these popular myths allows him to illustrate how knowledge is shaped by Western social science, particularly the anthropology of the "Other," and that it can be flawed. In the process, students learn not only about Inuit culture, but about the difference between popular and scholarly research.

Free Download Kiviuq: An Inuit Hero and His Siberian Cousins (Volume 54) (McGill-Queen’s Native and Northern Series) By Kira Van Deusen
2009 | 408 Pages | ISBN: 0773534997 | PDF | 5 MB
How do shape-shifting shamans, a giant cannibalistic bumblebee, and human marriage with animals speak to Canadian Inuit and Siberian indigenous peoples today? How can artists present ancient legend in live performance and film with sensitivity to the source?

Free Download Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, "How Things Came to Be: Inuit Stories of Creation"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1772272590, 1927095786 | EPUB | pages: 80 | 3.1 mb
This beautiful compendium of tales shares eight classic Inuit creation stories from the Baffin region. From the origins of day and night, thunder and lightning, and the sun and the moon to the creation of the first caribou and source of all the Arctic’s fearful storms, this book recounts traditional Inuit legends in the poetic and engaging style of authors Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley.

Free Download Donna Patrick, "Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community"
English | 2003 | pages: 285 | ISBN: 3110176521, 3110176513 | PDF | 7,6 mb
Cover actually reads Language, Politics and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community.

Free Download Inuit and Whalers on Baffin Island Through German Eyes: Wilhelm Weike’s Arctic Journal and Letters (1883-84) By Gieseking, Bernd(Editor);Müller-Wille, Ludger(Editor);Weike, Wilhelm;Barr, William(Translation)
2011 | 286 Pages | ISBN: 1926824113 | PDF | 5 MB
Told from an ordinary man’s perspective, these are the journal and letters of Wilhelm Weike as he accompanied Franz Boas-the father of modern anthropology-on his journey to the arctic from 1883 to 1884. This extraordinary document of early arctic history provides a plain, direct view of the Inuit and the whalers in their arctic environment at the end of the 19th century. With invaluable contextual and complementary information, this book contributes key insights during the recent wave of scientific assessment of Franz Boas’s legacy in all social sciences.

Free Download Overland to Starvation Cove: With the Inuit in Search of Franklin, 1878-1880 (Heritage) by Heinrich Klutschak
1993 | ISBN: 0802073972, 0802057624 | English | 296 pages | True EPUB | 6 MB
In May 1845 Sir John Franklin sailed westward from England in search of the Northwest Passage and was never seen again. Some thirty-five years later, Heinrich Klutschak of Prague, artist and surveyor on a small expedition led by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka of the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment, stumbled upon the grisly remains at Starvation Cove of the last survivors among Franklin’s men.