From Placelessness to Place: An Ethnographer's Experience of Growing to Know Places at Sea
Abstract How do we come to know the places we inhabit? What do places mean to us? What associations do we make with them? As an ethnographer and outsider I have grown, in a small way, to know places at sea along the northwest coast of Hudson Bay. In this paper I explore my growth into that knowledge...
| Published in: | Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Brill
2006
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853506777965785 https://brill.com/view/journals/wo/10/2/article-p220_5.xml https://data.brill.com/files/journals/15685357_010_02_s005_text.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract How do we come to know the places we inhabit? What do places mean to us? What associations do we make with them? As an ethnographer and outsider I have grown, in a small way, to know places at sea along the northwest coast of Hudson Bay. In this paper I explore my growth into that knowledge, and how the sea became transformed from a blank space to a place filled with memory and association. I compare my short experience with that of local Inuit, who make use of the sea on a daily basis. Where and how do Inuit learn about places at sea? And how important are those places in their use of and movement through their marine environment? |
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