Saqiyuk - Stories from the lives of three Inuit Women by Nancy Wachowich

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Presentation

Pages :

5 pages

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.doc

Published date :

01/15/2009

Category :

Philosophy & literature

Sub category :

Literature

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Summary :

Introduction.
Discerning the author's view about the western influence on the Inuit culture.
The change in the situation at the end of Apphia's life.
New values and norms.
Inuit people: The development of the state.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.

Abstract

Saqiyuq is a collection of stories from the lives of three inuit women: Apphia, Rhoda and Sandra. It consists of biographies and accounts from these three generations. This book enables the reader to see the great evolution of the inuit lifestyle during the twentieth century. The author, nancy wachowich, is an anthropologist. In this book, she uses the lives of three inuit women to illustrate her research concerning arctic anthropology. This research was ordered by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. She went in person to the Baffin Bay in order to meet these women and collect their accounts. Indeed, the reader can be the witness of the dramatic (and definitive?) changes which occurred, in only sixty years, in this region. Apphia, the grandmother, was used to a traditional inuit way of life and she is the narrator during the main part of the book. She lived almost exactly like her ancestors did; she had eleven children, traveled by foot or with dog team in the land, was sewing caribou skin or cooking seal meat while the husband she did not choose was hunting. But little by little, everything changed.