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Hummocks : Journeys and Inquiries Among the Canadian Inuit

2007

And so, in the infernal violence of a veritable inva- sion, the North American Arctic entered the strategic history books, while the Inuit were put on the front lines of our conflict with the East. [...] He felt that the research of the day was overly dominated by American con- cepts and sought the input of European researchers into the development of a new perspective on the difficult situation of the Northwest Territories Inuit. [...] In 964 Mr Rousseau and I co-edited the first comprehensive study of what was then called Nouveau Québec and is now called Nunavik, the immense northern portion of the Province of Quebec.* The publisher was the Centre d’Études Arctiques, which the great historian Fernand Braudel and I founded in 957 in Paris under the auspices of the École des Hautes Études des Sci- ences Sociales (EHESS).† The i [...] At Le Havre in May 973, once again under the auspices of the centre, the historian Jacques Le Goff and James Wah-Shee, president of the Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territories, co-chaired the first conference on Arctic oil and gas. [...] If ethnology and history have succeeded in the monumental task of convincing Europeans and North Americans that so-called “primitive” peo- ples are just as important in the history of humanity as are we, it is thanks to the work of pioneering intellectuals such as the ethnologists Marius Barbeau and Diamond Jenness, the archaeologist Robert McGhee, and the historians Jonathan Dore and Robert Vaugh
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Jean Malaurie

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references: p. [371]-378
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Dewey Decimal Classification Number
305.897/12071
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
22
General Note
Translation of the ed. first published in French, in 2 vols.: Paris : Plon, 1999 Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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9780773560314 9780773532007
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GN673
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M3513 2007eb
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1 electronic text (xxvi, 386 p.)
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Canada
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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(CaBNVSL)slc00221896 (OCoLC)753322430 (CaOOCEL)424797
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
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