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

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

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