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Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth: Gender, Shamanism, and the Third Sex

Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth: Gender, Shamanism, and the Third Sex - Paperback

by Bernard Saladin D'Anglure
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Availability:In StockContributor:Bernard Saladin D'Anglure, Peter Frost (Translator), Claude Lévi-Strauss (Foreword by)Series:Contemporary Studies on the North #6Publish date:2018-11-30Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Manitoba PressISBN-13:9780887558306ISBN-10:887558305UPC:9780887558306Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, Folklore & Mythology, AnthropologyBook Topic:American, Cultural & SocialSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCJEJR3M86

Ujarak, Iqallijuq, and Kupaaq were elders from the Inuit community on Igloolik Island in Nunavut. The three elders, among others, shared with Bernard Saladin d'Anglure the narratives which make up the heart of Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth. Through their words, and historical sources recorded by Franz Boas and Knud Rasmussen, Saladin d'Anglure examines the Inuit notion of personhood and its relationship to cosmology and mythology.

Central to these stories are womb memories, narratives of birth and reincarnation, and the concept of the third sex--an intermediate identity between male and female. As explained through first-person accounts and traditional legends, myths, and folk tales, the presence of transgender individuals informs Inuit relationships to one another and to the world at large, transcending the dualities of male and female, human and animal, human and spirit.

This new English edition includes the 2006 preface by Claude Lévi-Strauss and an afterword by Bernard Saladin d'Anglure.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Manitoba PressISBN-13:9780887558306ISBN-10:887558305UPC:9780887558306Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, Folklore & Mythology, AnthropologyBook Topic:American, Cultural & SocialSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCJEJR3M86
BERNARD SALADIN D'ANGLURE first began his work among the Canadian Inuit in the 1950s, when he was a young student from France. He later became a professor of Anthropology at the University of Laval, where he taught until his retirement.

Publisher: University of Manitoba Press

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Bernard Saladin D'Anglure, Peter Frost (Translator), Claude Lévi-Strauss (Foreword by)

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Bernard Saladin D'Anglure

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