Inuksuit: Silent Messengers of the Arctic

by Norman Hallendy

Book Overview

The mysterious stone figures known as inuksuit can be found throughout the circumpolar world. Built from whatever stones are at hand, each one is unique. Inuksuit are among the oldest and most... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550548743
• ISBN13: 9781550548747
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.4" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

Travels in the spiritual landscape of the Inuit

Don't be misled into thinking this is a coffee-table book because it has so many stunning photographs! This is one of the most illuminating voyages into the spiritual landscape of the Inuit that I have ever come across. Through his friendships with Inuit elders born before their people had any sustained contact with Europeans, Mr. Hallendy obtained information about the uses and meanings of inuksuit rarely if ever shared with whites and nearly forgotten even by the elders of today. His extraordinary and inevitably personal interpretation of the words and phrases they used to "explain" these monuments evoke reflection on some of the larger and more universal aspects of religion and art--because another thing evident in this book is that these megaliths are an as yet under-appreciated form of three-dimensional Inuit art. They are sculpture at its most powerful, and Mr. Hallendy's photographs not only provide us with a chance to see these virtually inaccessible masterpieces, but fully capture the spiritual power emanating from them.