New Book Available
"Community at Play - Social and Religious Dynamics in the Modern Inuit
Community of Qikiqtarjuaq"
By: A. Nicole Stuckenberger
Rozenberg Publishers
Price: 26.50 Euros
ISBN: 90 5170 957 9
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About the Book
This study shows, by examining ways of social and religious life in a
modern Inuit community and the annual "Ten Days of Christmas" festival,
that after more than 100 years of being Christians and about 50 years
after moving from nomadic hunting camps to modern settlements, Inuit
still perceive themselves as a hunting society and formulate their
self-perceptions in cosmological terms emphasizing relations to God,
land, and animals. To Inuit the community does not represent a corporate
unit encompassing and transcending the participants, it represents
potential for cooperation.
About the Author
Anja Nicole Stuckenberger received her M.A. in Cultural Anthropology at
the Westfaelische Wilhelms University (Muenster, Germany) in 1997. In
1999, she studied Inuktitut at the Institut National de la Langues
Orientales (Paris, France). From 1999 until 2004 she conducted Ph.D.
research at Utrecht University on Inuit perceptions of modern
communities. As part of her project, she carried out 14 months of
fieldwork in Qikiqtarjuaq, Nunavut (Canada). She earned her Ph.D. degree
in 2005 with the study "Community at Play - Social and Religious
Dynamics in the Modern Community of Qikiqtarjuaq." From 2004 until 2005
she taught at Utrecht University. Currently, she holds a Postdoc
position at the Institute of Arctic Studies (IAS) that is part of the
John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth
College (Hanover, NH, USA). She is working on a project of arctic
peoples' perceptions and ways of dealing with effects of climate change.