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 of birth and reincarnation, and the concept of the third sex--an intermediate identity between male and female. As explained through first-person accounts and traditional legends, myths, and folk tales, the presence of transgender individuals informs Inuit relationships to one another and to the world at large, transcending the dualities of male and female, human and animal, human and spirit. This new English edition includes the 2006 preface by Claude Lévi-Strauss and an afterword by Bernard Saladin d'Anglure.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-348)
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- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 730/.89/9712071
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Translation of: Etre et renaître inuit, homme, femme ou chamane Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-nu
- ISBN
- 9780887555596 9780887558306
- LCCN
- E99.E7
- LCCN Item number
- S312813 2019eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (392 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00978157 (OCoLC)1080389835 (CaOOCEL)455846
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 6
- Preface to the 2006 Edition 12
- Foreword: Igloolik Island, a Mythical Place 14
- The Storytellers 22
- Introduction: Iqallijuq, Ujarak, Kupaaq, and Others 32
- Interlude 1: Song of Saittuq 40
- Chapter 1: Savviurtalik Is Reincarnated 42
- Interlude 2: Iqallijuq Remembering 59
- Chapter 2: Inuit Genesis and the Desire for Children 70
- Chapter 3: Naarjuk: The Giant Baby with Prominent Genitals and the Master of Sila 88
- Chapter 4: Incestuous Moon Brother Chases Sun Sister 105
- Chapter 5: A Headstrong Daughter: The Mother of All Human Races and All Marine Mammals 132
- Chapter 6: A Cheated Husband and Thwarted Love in the Animal World 152
- Chapter 7: Girls Should Not Play at Marriage 172
- Chapter 8: A Battered Wife Chooses to Be Reborn in Animal Forms, Then as a Man 183
- Chapter 9: Kaujjajjuk, a Mistreated Orphan Rescued by the Moon Man 208
- Chapter 10: The Danger of Being Impregnated by a Spirit When You Have a Jealous Husband 228
- Chapter 11: Itirjuaq, the First Woman Healer 241
- Chapter 12: The Strange Man and His Whale 251
- Chapter 13: Atanaarjuat, the Fast Runner: A Mythical Hero 263
- Chapter 14: Ataguttaaluk, the Cannibal Forebear (or The Birth of a Myth) 278
- Chapter 15: Qisaruatsiaq: Back to Her Mother's Womb 305
- Photo Section 314
- Conclusion 322
- Afterword 330
- Glossary of Inuktitut Terms 344
- Notes 358
- Bibliography 376
- Photo Credits 388
- Index 390
