- 356 pages
- English
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About This Book
Despite the long human history of the Canadian central arctic, there is still little historical writing on the Inuit peoples of this vast region. Although archaeologists and anthropologists have studied ancient and contemporary Inuit societies, the Inuit world in the crucial period from the 16th to the 20th centuries remains largely undescribed and unexplained. In Order to Live Untroubled helps fill this 400-year gap by providing the first, broad, historical survey of the Inuit peoples of the central arctic. Drawing on a wide array of eyewitness accounts, journals, oral sources, and findings from material culture and other disciplines, historian Renee Fossett explains how different Inuit societies developed strategies and adaptations for survival to deal with the challenges of their physical and social environments over the centuries.
In Order to Live Untroubled examines how and why Inuit created their cultural institutions before they came under the pervasive influence of Euro-Canadian society. This fascinating account of Inuit encounters with explorers, fur traders, and other Aboriginal peoples is a rich and detailed glimpse into a long-hidden historical world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Maps and Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Assumptions about the Other
- 1. Empty Dishes and Days of Feasting: Human Habitation of Arctic North America to 1550
- 2. Strangers Are Necessarily Hostile: War and the Protection of Resources, 1550–1670
- 3. Fear when Winter Comes: Migration and the Search for Resources, 1670–1700
- 4. The Lands around My Dwelling: Strategies for Social Environments, 1700–1790
- 5. The Degree of Cold: Subsistence and Survival, 1790–1830
- 6. Memories of Hunger: Windfalls, Surplus, and Scarcity, 1830–1860
- 7. Skin for Soles, Moss for Wicks: The Search for Predictability, 1860–1940
- 8. The Experience of Dead Generations: Social Organization, Worldview, and Survival
- Appendixes
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index