Welcome to the world of the Inuits, where history, culture and religion are centered on the geography of the Arctic circle. Read about a little bit of their history as a people to appreciate their collective skills in adapting to the very harsh environment around them. Learn about their religious beliefs, especially their belief that luck is influenced by external forces. Enjoy the read!
Welcome to the world of the Inuits, where history, culture and religion are centered on the geography of the Arctic circle. Read about a little bit of their history as a people to appreciate their collective skills in adapting to the very harsh environment around them. Learn about their religious beliefs, especially their belief that luck is influenced by external forces. Enjoy the read!
Volume four of this series shares tales of Inuit and Christian beliefs and how these came to coexist--and sometimes clash--in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
This book is filled with the strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests and magic symbols of of people who live in the Far North or Arctic Regions.
Handbook guide to memory and storage management for PC-XT/AT (or compatibles) offering advanced techniques and capabilities. Includes extended memory and RAM disk management. No bibliography. This companion and sequel to the author's Becoming half hidden: shamanism and initiation among the Inuit (1985) delves into common Inuit experiential religious concepts and uncovers within them the outlines of a powerful pantheon. Beginning with investigations of souls, spirits, and indwellers in nature and in the wind, it explores the meaning of the numinous figures that people the everyday world of the Inuit. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Here is an in-depth look at spiritual experiences about which very little has been written. Belief in reincarnation exists not only in India but in most small tribal societies throughout the world, including many Indian groups in North America. The reader is offered a rich tapestry of stories from a number of North American tribes about death, dying, and returning to this life. Included are stories from the Inuit of the polar regions; the Northwest Coast people, such as the Kwakiutl, the Gitxsan, the Tlingit, and the Suquamish; the Hopi and the Cochiti of the Southwest; the Winnebago of the Great Lakes region; the Cherokee of the Southeast,; and the Sioux people of the Plains area. Readers will learn about a Winnebago shaman's initiation, the Cherokee's Orpheus myth, the Hopi story of A Journey to the Skeleton House, the Inuit man who lived the lives of all animals, the Ghost Dance, and other extraordinary accounts. The ethnological record indicates reincarnation beliefs are found among the indigenous peoples on all continents of this earth as well as in most of the world's major religions. This book makes a valuable contribution towards having a deeper understanding of North American Indian spiritual beliefs.
This book is dedicated to exploring the gods and goddesses that the Inuit people and Eskimos worshiped, and within the pages you will find more information about: Inuit myths about the creation of the world. The intriguing stories and legends of Nanuk and Sedna. The Inuit religion and how it relates the natural environment they lived in. Inuit mythological names and their meanings. Inuit mythology is intricate, complex, and the ideals behind some of their mythological beliefs were often intertwined with real life events. This book will examine how both myth and fact contributed to the culture and traditions of the Inuit people, and how these influences and some stories continue to live on throughout the centuries. Add this book to cart now.
Combining both historical and present day perspectives, Native North America provides a far ranging and richly illustrated account of the spiritual traditions of the indigenous peoples of North America, from the Inuit of the Canadian north to the Pueblo of the Arizona desert. The text explores individual culture areas by region, in such forms as personal and communal ritual, rites and ceremonies, identity and dispossession, myths and sacred histories. The depth of the writing combined with the high quality of esoteric colour images, maps, photographs and artwork, make this an important book to have in any reference section.
Since the mid-twentieth century, sustained contact between Inuit and newcomers has led to profound changes in education in the Eastern Arctic, including the experience of colonization and progress toward the re-establishment of traditional education in schools. Heather McGregor assesses developments in the history of education in four periods � the traditional, the colonial (1945-70), the territorial (1971-81), and the local (1982-99). She concludes that education is most successful when Inuit involvement and local control support a system reflecting Inuit culture and visions.
The goals of the second volume of the AHDR – Arctic Human Development Report: Regional Processes and Global Linkages – are to provide an update to the first AHDR (2004) in terms of an assessment of the state of Arctic human development; to highlight the major trends and changes unfolding related to the various issues and thematic areas of human development in the Arctic over the past decade; and, based on this assessment, to identify policy relevant conclusions and key gaps in knowledge, new and emerging Arctic success stories. The production of AHDR-II on the tenth anniversary of the first AHDR makes it possible to move beyond the baseline assessment to make valuable comparisons and contrasts across a decade of persistent and rapid change in the North. It addresses critical issues and emerging challenges in Arctic living conditions, quality of life in the North, global change impacts and adaptation, and Indigenous livelihoods. The assessment contributes to our understanding of the interplay and consequences of physical and social change processes affecting Arctic residents’ quality of life, at both the regional and global scales. It shows that the Arctic is not a homogenous region. Impacts of globalization and environmental change differ within and between regions, between Indigenous and non-Indigenous northerners, between genders and along other axes.
