Cosmology and Shamanism

The fourth volume in the Interviewing Inuit Elders series examines two important aspects of Inuit culture—cosmology and shamanism—that were in large part suppressed following the introduction of Christianity. Like other volumes in the five-volume series, the book is based on interviews of elders conducted in 1998 by students in Nunavut Arctic College's Inuit Studies Program at Nunatta Campus in Iqaluit. The course, Cosmology and Shamanism, was directed by Bernard Saladin d'Anglure, who also...