Quaqtaq: Modernity and Identity in an Inuit Community

by Louis-Jacques Dorais

How, in a world that is drastically changing, can the Inuit preserve their identity? Louis-Jacques Dorais explores this question in Quaqtaq , the first ethnography of a contemporary Canadian Inuit community to be published in over twenty-five years. The community of Quaqtaq is a small village on Hudson Strait where hunting and gathering are still the mainstays of life. In this description of Quaqtaq, based on data collected over a thirty-year period,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802079520
• ISBN13: 9780802079527
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher