Inuit Youth: Growth and Change in the Canadian Arctic

by Richard G. Condon

Book Overview

Richard G. Condon's ethnography of Inuit adolescence describes the life of young people between the ages of nine and twenty in the small, isolated Inuit community of Holman Island, located in the Northwest Territories of the Canadian Arctic. He begins with an overview of the historical development and contemporary situation of the community, covering social organization, economic adaptations, and recent changes in population structure. Condon details...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813513642
• ISBN13: 9780813513645
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"