| In Those Days: Shamans, Spirits, and Faith in the Inuit North English Edition Contributor(s): Harper, Kenn (Author) |
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ISBN: 177227254X ISBN-13: 9781772272543 Publisher: Inhabit Media OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Polar Regions - History | Native American - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion |
| Series: In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.25 lbs) 250 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Cultural Region - Arctic/Antarctic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this new collection, Kenn Harper shares tales of Inuit and Christian beliefs and how these came to coexist--and sometimes clash--in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During this period, Anglican and Catholic missionaries came to the North to proselytize among the Inuit, with often unexpected and sometimes tragic results. This collection includes stories of shamans and priests, hymns and ajaja songs, and sealskin churches, drawing on first-hand accounts to show how Christianity changed life in the North in big and small ways. This volume also includes dozens of rare, historical photographs. |
Contributor Bio(s): Harper, Kenn: - Kenn Harper is a historian, writer, and linguist, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and a former member of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. He is the author of the In Those Days series, Minik, the New York Eskimo, and Thou Shalt Do No Murder: Inuit, Injustice, and the Canadian Arctic. "Taissumani," his column on Arctic history, appears in Nunatsiaq News. |